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The Military Academy at ETH Zurich and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zurich have published the survey «Sicherheit 2023». Since 1999, the annual study has evaluated long-​term trends and tendencies in public opinion on foreign, security and defense policy issues in Switzerland.

From a distance, the circles seem to be differentiated, yet a closer look reveals they share the exact same light-orange pigment – an optical illusion. While groups in conflict tend to develop strong biases toward each other, seeing themselves as distinctly different, contact – a "closer look" – helps reduce this effect. Hence, the possibilities contact offers to overcome biases even when meeting online, is subject of the latest CSS Mediation Resource written by Inbal Ben-Ezer.

Despite various efforts at reconciliation, the road to a viable settlement between Serbia and Kosovo remains long. But without normalizing relations, neither Kosovo nor Serbia is likely to achieve its goals of integration into European governance structures, argue Andrej Marković and Jeronim Perović in the latest edition of the CSS Analyses in Security Policy series.