GSCP

15^th Annual Conference of the PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes

Facing a World of Transitions

The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) will host the 10th International Security Forum (ISF) from 22 to 24 April 2013 at the Geneva International Conference Centre (CICG), Switzerland.

2013 will be the 10^th edition of the ISF, a conference sponsored and co-organised by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport and the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs as an official Swiss government contribution to the Partnership for Peace. The 10th ISF is, at the same time, the 15th Annual Conference of the PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

The main conference partners include the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Center for Security Studies and the International Relations and Security Network at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and the PfP Consortium of Defence Academies and Security Studies Institutes.

The biennial International Security Forum brings together some 500 distinguished individuals who make and shape decisions relevant to international security, among them diplomats and other government officials, military, academics and representatives of international and non-governmental organisations from all over the world. The conference offers the international security community high-level cutting-edge analyses, briefs, and debates on the most relevant topics of international security.

Participation is by invitation only. For further information visit www.isf2013.ch.