Geneva Centre for Security Policy

The future of global security isn’t a distant concept, it’s being built today.

Join us tomorrow for the GCSP Transformative Futures Day 2026, an immersive online event dedicated to the innovative leaders redefining peacebuilding in an era of unprecedented disruption.

Event Highlights:
🚀 Space Security & Crisis Management: A deep dive into "Crisis Management Beyond Earth" with Mr Niko Orell and Prof Nayef Al-Rodhan
🏆 The 2026 GCSP Prize: Witness the unveiling of groundbreaking concepts that will define the next era of global security, hosted by Dr Paul Vallet
🎟️ Exclusive Opportunity: All attendees are entered into a draw for a free seat at our prestigious Geopolitics and Global Futures Symposium

Don’t just watch the future happen. Help shape it.

📅 3 June 2026 👉 Register here: https://bit.ly/4nclmcJ

We recently concluded our course "Diplomatic Tradecraft for Non-Diplomats", bringing together participants for three days of virtual learning and exchange focused on the key functions and skills of modern diplomacy.

Through expert-led discussions, case studies, and interactive group work, participants deepened their understanding of the main functions of diplomats in both bilateral and multilateral contexts, including crisis management, negotiation, communication, leadership, political reporting, the use of soft power, the rules of protocol and etiquette and the impact of AI on diplomacy.

The course equipped professionals with practical tools and insights to better understand diplomatic practice and engage more effectively in international and intercultural settings.

Thank you to all participants, speakers, and facilitators for making this course such a rich and engaging learning experience!

We are honoured to spotlight members of our Foundation Council throughout this year! Their guidance and commitment are essential to our mission.

Today, we are spotlighting the France - one of our founding members since 1995 – who has supported a variety of our activities including partnering with us for Geneva Security Debates. Swipe to hear about our partnership from our Foundation Council Representative, Ambassador Anne Lazar-Sury, the Permanent Representative of France to the Conference on Disarmament.

We greatly value our collaboration as we work together toward a more peaceful and secure world. Find out more about our Foundation Council here: https://bit.ly/4uUvA46

Join our upcoming activities this week!

GCSP Transformative Futures Day 2026
📅 03 June | 15:00-17:30 | Online
Register now: https://bit.ly/4nclmcJ

We are honoured to spotlight members of our Foundation Council throughout this year! Their guidance and commitment are essential to our mission.

Today, we are spotlighting the Finland - one of our founding members since 1995. Swipe to hear about our partnership from our Foundation Council Representative, Ambassador Heidi Schroderus-Fox of the Permanent Mission of Finland to the United Nations Office and other international organisations in Geneva.

We greatly value our collaboration as we work together toward a more peaceful and secure world. Find out more about our Foundation Council here: https://bit.ly/4uUvA46

Today, on the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, we held a commemoration ceremony that honoured the service and sacrifice of UN Peacekeepers – past, current and future. We paid tribute to their commitment and contribution to the noble cause, and collective endeavour, of promoting peace and security for all.

On the occasion, in cooperation with the International Peace Institute, NUPI, and the Federal Department for Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, we were pleased to also convene senior experts and practitioners for a workshop on Strategic Foresight and Scenario-Based Exercises on the Future of Peace Operations.

As peace operations face growing complexity, shifting geopolitical realities, and increasing demands for adaptability - strategic foresight has never been more important. The workshop we are hosting on 29-30 May provides an opportunity to explore and develop innovative approaches to strategic anticipation, futures thinking and scenario-based exercises, fit to support the development of adapted and new models of UN peace operations. Strengthening strategic planning and effective decision-making is critical to impactful missions.

Thank you to United Nations Peacekeeping in NY, UN Geneva, United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, the Governments of Switzerland, Norway, Netherlands, and all other partners and the participants for a powerful first day. Looking forward to tomorrow's continued work!

For the first time on the African continent, the GOARN – Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network brought together 24 leaders in Namibia for its Residential Leadership Retreat.

The programme was designed to strengthen the leadership tools, skills, and mindset needed to lead when it matters most — at the intersection of health security, crisis leadership, and emergency response.

At a time when uncertainty, outbreaks, and complex emergencies continue to test systems worldwide, investing in leadership capacity is no longer optional. It is essential.

What made this experience particularly powerful was seeing leaders from across Africa come together in a shared space to:
🔹 reflect openly
🔹 challenge themselves
🔹 learn from one another
🔹 grow together

We are proud that the GCSP helped contribute to building this important initiative and achieve this milestone.

A heartfelt thank you to the participants, facilitators, mentors, and partners who turned this ambition into action: Peter Cunningham, Ariane Jaubert, Renee Christensen, Armand Bejtullahu, Jerry Jonas Mbasha, Iyaloo Mwaningange, Paul Zulu, as well as WHO GOARN and the Robert Koch Institute.

The GCSP’s Director for Mediation and Peace Support, Paul Dziatkowiec, was invited to give two talks at Harvard University - on the Arctic at the Harvard Kennedy School, and on mediation practice at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

On the Arctic, he focused on the interconnections between ongoing geopolitical tensions and multiplying challenges to Arctic security, governance, the environment and scientific cooperation - as well as the efforts of the GCSP’s discreet dialogue platform, the High North Talks, to bring relevant parties together to consider ways to manage these challenges.

In his guest lecture on the evolution of mediation practice, he highlighted various developments that have combined to make conflict more likely and mediation more complex - including the return of big power politics, undermining of long-accepted international norms, marginalisation of competent multilateral organisations from central roles in peace processes, and growing complexity and fragmentation of conflicts themselves.

With some of these trends set to continue on the same trajectory for the foreseeable future, he suggested that success in mediation will depend on greater agility and creativity, a broader base of expertise, as well as openness to deal with atypical actors and to improve coordination between the growing set of mediation actors.

Join us in September for a virtual learning journey on in the context of international !

Through this course, you’ll learn to:
✔️ Describe and analyse cyberspace as an operational environment
✔️ Identify and assess threats, vulnerabilities, risks, and incidents
✔️ Design and evaluate organisational mitigations and incident-response options
✔️ Examine and articulate the role of cybersecurity within international security
✔️ Communicate findings and recommendations to decision-makers

💡 By combining hands-on exercises, expert presentations and dialogue amongst course participants, the course promotes an active learning approach to cyber security in the context of international security.

🔜 Don’t miss it and apply before 30 August: https://bit.ly/4uIjBqD