International Security Forum 2016

The CSS is a partner of the biennial International Security Forum brings together some 350 dignitaries who make and shape international security affairs. For 22 years world diplomats, ministers, government officials, military and private sector personnel have come to ISF. The GCSP hosted the 11th ISF from 13 to 15 June 2016 at the Maison de la paix in Geneva, Switzerland.

The ISF Conferences nurtured the discourse on traditional challenges such as nuclear disarmament and regional conflicts, and emerging issues such as asymmetrical warfare and climate change. The 2016 edition of the International Security Forum was entitled Global Disorder - Security in a World Disrupted.

The 11th ISF was hosted by the external pageGeneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)call_made, sponsored and co-organized by the external pageSwiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sportscall_made and the external pageSwiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairscall_made as an official Swiss contribution to the external pagePartnership for Peacecall_made. The main conference partners include the external pageGeneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forcescall_made, the external pageGeneva International Centre for Humanitarian Deminingcall_made, the external pageGeneva Centre for Security Policycall_made, the external pageGraduate Institute of International and Development Studiescall_made in Geneva, and the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

Please see the ISF website for brief and insightful summaries of all panels, including the three panels chaired by the CSS:
external page1.1. Challenges to European Security and the Role of OSCE Mediation,call_made
external page2.3. Community Disaster Resilience: Protecting Development Gains in Fragile Situations, undcall_madeexternal page3.5. Technologies as Challenges for Arms Controlcall_made.

external pageSummaries of all panels on the ISF websitecall_made