19 questions for a safer future
The Cooperative Security Initiative (CSI) is designed to generate ideas and shift momentum in favor of cooperative security and multilateralism through the OSCE in order to build a safer Europe.
It is conceptualized and carried out by two think tanks: The FES Regional Office for Cooperation and Peace in Europe and GLOBSEC, and composed of experts from all OSCE regions. Senior Research Fellow Julie Wilhelmsen (NUPI) is one of them. Wilhelmsen is an expert on Russian foreign and security politics and critical security studies at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. Her most recent research pays particular attention to interaction and conflict escalation between political entities in world politics.
- What are Julie Wilhelmsen's main concerns regarding security in Europe – and why is security cooperation so important, according to her? Watch CSI's expert interview, recorded at theOSCE Ministerial Council 2019:
As part of the process of ensuring a safer future, CSI has identified 19 key questions to generate debate to promote cooperative security, aiming to engage an audience beyond the group of experts.
- Would you like to participate? See the questions, and provide your answers, here.
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- The Initiative was launched at the GLOBSEC Forum in June 2019, with the support of Slovakia’s Chairmanship of the OSCE. OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger has endorsed the Initiative and has offered Secretariat support.
- The Initiative is composed of experts from all OSCE regions, headed by a Chair. Experts have been chosen in their personal capacity, based on their expertise in issues of European security and their demonstrated interest in cooperative security, as well as their institutional affiliation and networks. While care has been taken to finding a geographical balance, experts do not represent their countries per se.
- The Initiative will use innovative approaches – based around guiding questions – to generate debate to promote cooperative security – all over the OSCE region.
- At the end of this process will be an analytical paper reflecting cooperative security based on the discussions.
Source: Cooperative Security Initiative