The Cooperative Security Initiative 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.
The Initiative is designed to engage an audience beyond the group of experts, including through social media, meetings hosted by think tanks, parliamentarians as well as senior officials of OSCE participating States. The Initiative will use innovative approaches – based around guiding questions – to generate debate to promote cooperative security – not only in Vienna or Bratislava or Tirana for the next year, but all over the OSCE region.
Two meetings of CSI initiators and participants have taken place. Here in Bratislava we present the output around a limited set of questions at the OSCE Ministerial Meeting. A final product designed to enhanced cooperative security and encourage effective multilateralism for a safer future in Europe will be produced in time for the GLOBSEC Forum in spring 2020, followed by road shows in the OSCE region. At the end of this process will be an analytical paper reflecting cooperative security based on the discussions.
Indeed, Europe has experienced such situations in the past – with devastating consequences. And each time, after major wars, a security order had to be rebuilt in 1815, 1919 and 1945. In a nuclear age, that is not a risk that leaders can afford to take.
Through questions. We believe that at this point we do not need another report. We have many, including the OSCE Eminent Persons Report “Back to Diplomacy” from 2015. What we do need is a debating process on the topic of Cooperative Security. Like Socrates did. He taught by asking questions. He did not want just to argue, but he wanted to confront very confident women and men with questions to
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