OSCE Centre supports the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) Seminar Part II: “Dialogue, Trust & Security in Central Asia”
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The OSCE Center in Bishkek in co-operation with the OSCE Programme Office in Astana will hold a seminar for around 40 university students, new members of the Central Asian Youth Network (CAYN) and alumni from Central Asia, Afghanistan and Mongolia.
The topic of this year’s forum “Renewing dialogue, rebuilding trust, restoring security” was selected to reflect the priorities of Germany’s 2016 OSCE Chairmanship. The participants will discuss the key challenges for comprehensive security in Central Asia and beyond, and explore ways to address them in their communities and together with co-operation from neighboring countries. They will also address the issue of civil society’s role in promoting fundamental freedoms and human rights, and re-examine co-operation in Central Asia on its way to integration with a special emphasis on connectivity and multilateral co-operation.
The CAYN network has been established in 2004 as part of the OSCE’s efforts to enhance young people’s understanding of contemporary security threats and explain the OSCE’s role in responding to them.
The event will be hosted for the first time by the OSCE Centre in Bishkek and it is the follow-up event held by the OSCE Programme Office in Astana on 5 to 7 July 2016 in Almaty, Kazakhstan.