Background
The Security Days examine select security issues from many different viewpoints in line with the OSCE’s comprehensive approach to security and in keeping with the diversity of contexts in the OSCE area and neighbouring regions. They are intended as a platform for sharing experiences and good practices and offer an opportunity to examine emerging trends and priorities for action.
The event was created as part of the OSCE’s efforts to promote initiatives and create platforms for many different forms of dialogue at various levels, so as to counter misperceptions, decrease tensions, prevent conflict and promote stability across the OSCE region. On the OSCE side, participants regularly include representatives of participating States and of Partners for Co-operation.
Past Security Days
Meeting
OSCE Security Chat: The Framework for Arms Control in an Age of Emerging Technologies
This OSCE Security Chat, an online derivative of the Security Days, will provide an opportunity to reflect on the relevance of the 1996 OSCE Framework for Arms Control and its guiding principles in relation to emerging technologies, not…
Conference
Security Days: Revitalizing Trust and Co-operation in Europe: Lessons of the Paris Charter
The rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation led to the decision to cancel the in-person event in Prague and to move the conference fully online while trying to preserve as much of the real-life experience as possible. Please note beginning of…
Conference
Security Days: A Human Rights-Centred Approach to Technology and Security
Technology has a growing impact on security, both for better and for worse. It can enable individuals to more effectively exercise their rights and enhance participation in democratic processes as well as help states secure their borders…
Conference
Security Days: The OSCE and the Sustainable Development Goals
With its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the 2030 Agenda adopted by world leaders in September 2015 officially came into force on 1 January 2016. The SDGs are grouped around five major pillars: people, planet, prosperity, peace and…
Conference
Security Days: Countering fragmentation and polarization: Re-creating a climate for stability in Europe
This OSCE Security Days event aimed to contribute to a dialogue on how to create a stable and resilient security environment in Europe at a time of growing global uncertainty and unpredictability.
Conference
Security Days: Creating inclusive, safe and sustainable cities: Local approaches to global challenges
This OSCE Security Days event aimed to help bridge the gap between policymaking on key security-related issues at the national, regional and global levels and the experience of cities in confronting these challenges.
Roundtable
Security Days: Revitalising military confidence-building, risk reduction and arms control in Europe
This OSCE Security Days expert roundtable provided a platform for a strategic and forward-looking discussion on revitalizing military confidence-building, risk reduction and arms control in Europe.
Conference
Security Days: From Confrontation to Co-operation - Restoring Co-operative Security in Europe
This OSCE Security Days conference aimed at contributing to a strategic dialogue on how to overcome the current stalemate and diverging threat perceptions and return to co-operative security in Europe
Conference
Security Days: Refocusing Migration and Security - Bridging National and Regional Responses
This OSCE Security Days event in Rome set out to stimulate a constructive and forward-looking discussion of rapidly evolving migration trends in and around the OSCE area and their complex security implications.
Conference
Security Days: In Pursuit of Peace and Security - How Gender Makes a Difference
This Security Days event provided a forum for exploring opportunities on how to apply a gender perspective to crisis prevention, conflict management and post-conflict rehabilitation.
Conference
Security Days: Climate Change and Security - Unprecedented impacts, unpredictable risks
This OSCE Security Days provided a forum to discuss the security risks associated with climate change as well as the security benefits of climate change mitigation and adaptation. It also identified successful approaches to integrating…
Conference
Security Days: Building Bridges - Promoting Dialogue to Prevent Radicalization and Violent Extremism
This OSCE Security Days event provided a forum for exploring the root causes of extremism and radicalisation, as well as possible measures and actions to counter extremism and radicalization that lead to violence.
Conference
Security Days: Current Challenges to Euro-Atlantic Security - Strategies for Co-operation and Joint Solutions
The situation in and around Ukraine, Afghanistan, and terrorism are increasing insecurity throughout the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian region. How can we work together to confront these complex challenges?
Conference
Security Days: Enhancing Security through Water Diplomacy - The Role of the OSCE
The OSCE Security Days conference on "Enhancing Security through Water Diplomacy: The Role of the OSCE" took stock of the role the OSCE had played so far in promoting water co-operation and explored opportunities for further OSCE engagement…
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Security Days: The OSCE and Chapter VIII of the UN Charter - Confronting Emerging Security Challenges in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Space
By engaging practitioners and seeking recommendations for both the policy and operational level, this event explored innovative ways for the OSCE to strengthen its co-operation arrangements with the United Nations and other regional…
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Security Days: Approaches to Conflict Resolution in the OSCE Area
The Security Days event focused on conflict resolution. It was designed to bring new thinking to the table and gathered together experts from a range of different countries and specialisations. It looked at both theory and practice, at…
Conference
Security Days: Current and Future Challenges to Security
The 2013 OSCE Security Days conference gathered prominent practitioners, experts in the field from academia, think tanks, civil society, and the media. The event was an opportunity to look at both current and future challenges to security…
Conference
Security Days: Building a Security Community
The 2012 OSCE Security Days event provided a platform for the discussion of fresh ideas and approaches to Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian security. It aimed to help link the contributions that both traditional diplomacy and civil society can…
