Meetings
Global and Regional Issues/Institutions
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Middle East & Mediterranean
The GCSP and the RAND Corporation (USA) cooperate together on an annual basis to organise workshops on relevant issues.
Often, the GCSP invites three sets of participants, Americans, Europeans and Middle Easterners and provided them with a set of papers and an environment to stimulate discussion. Discussion of an unfolding event is not always easy but it is all the more necessary given the speed with which the strategic context changes so rapidly.
- The Middle East 2008
20-23 June 2008 - The Middle East 2007
1-3- July 2007 - The Middle East 2006: Change and Transition
25-27 June 2006 - The Middle East: Changing Strategic Environment
26-28 June 2005 - The United States, Europe and the Wider Middle East
27-29 June 2004 - Middle East in the Shadow of Afghanistan and Iraq
4-6 May 2003 - Middle East and Asymmetric war after September 11th and Afghanistan
23-24 June 2002 - Turkey and the West
25-27 April 2001
- NATO's New Strategic Concept and Peripheral Contingencies: the Middle East
15-16 July 1999
Project on Security Governance in the Southern Mediterranean: Second Expert Meeting, Malta
14 May 2004
On 14 May, the GCSP, with the support of the Mediterranean Academy for Diplomatic Studies, organised the second meeting within the framework of a project on Security Governance in the Mediterranean.
Project on Security Governance in the Southern Mediterranean: Expert Meeting, Geneva
30 October 2003
On 30 October 2003, the GCSP organised an expert meeting in the context of a project on Security Governance in the Mediterranean. The project is supported by the Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and one of its objectives is to formulate recommendations which could serve as a basis for Switzerland’s policy towards southern Mediterranean states. The meeting brought together scholars and experts from the Maghreb countries (Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia) as well as from a number of European countries. The main objective of the meeting was to discuss a concept paper written by the GCSP, which will serve as a basis for this project, and to define the further roadmap of the project.
Meetings and Conferences
Security in the Middle East Revisited
Amman, Jordan
29-30 November 2004
On 29-30 November 2004 the GCSP held a joint seminar with the Jordanian Institute of Diplomacy in Amman, bringing together experts from Europe and Jordan on the theme of "The Strategic Landscape in a Changing Environment: Security in the Middle East Revisited".
Public Discussions
"Prospects for Peace in the Middle East",
28 April 2009
To assess the recent developments within the Arab-Israeli Conflict, the GCSP hosted a Public Discussion on 28 April 2009 entitled “The Prospects for Peace in the Middle East”. This theme has become an annual event at the GCSP, and coincided with a focus on Middle East security in the GCSP's International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC). The panel for the discussion was composed of Brigadier General (Retd.) Shlomo Brom, Senior Research Associate at the Institute for National Security Studies at Tel Aviv University; Dr. Geoffrey Kemp, Director of Regional Strategic Programs at the Nixon Center; and Dr. Ahmad Samih Khalidi, Senior Associate Member at St. Antony's College, Oxford University. The panel was chaired by Amb. Dr. Fred Tanner, Director of the GCSP.
Launch of a Study, prepared by the Strategic Foresight Group, on "Cost of Conflict in the Middle East", 23 January 2009
On Friday 23 January, the GCSP hosted, at the Palais des Nations, the launch of a study on the “Cost of Conflict in the Middle East ”. This study, prepared by the Strategic Foresight Group (FSG), makes a detailed assessment of the economic, social, military, environmental, political and diplomatic costs of the conflict in the Middle East. The report was published with the support of leaders or governments of Norway, Switzerland, Turkey and Qatar as well as of 50 experts from the region.
Prospects for Peace in the Middle East,
14 May 2008
Brig. Gen. (retd) Shlomo Brom
Senior Research Associate, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), Tel Aviv University
Dr. Geoffrey Kemp
Director of Regional Strategic Programmes at the Nixon Centre, Washington D.C.
Prof. Khalil Shikaki
Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, Ramallah
The Arab Israel Conflict: The Next Steps
9 May 2007
Prof. Khalil Shikaki
Associate Professor of Political Science & Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR), Ramallah
Brig. Gen. (retd) Shlomo Brom
Senior Research Associate, The Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), (formerly known as the Jaffee Center), Tel Aviv University
Dr. Geoffrey Kemp
Director of the Regional Strategic Program, The Nixon Center, Washington D.C.
After Gaza: What?
10 May 2006
Ambassador Salah Abdel Shafi
Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and
Palestinian Delegate to the Kingdom of Sweden
Brig Gen (ret) Shlomo Brom
Guest Scholar, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention,
United States Institute of Peace
Dr Geoffrey Kemp
Director of Regional Strategic Programs, The Nixon Center
The European Union and the Middle East Peace Process: What next after Gaza?
2 November 2005
Ambassador Marc Otte
EU Special Representative to the Middle East Peace Process
The Future of the Middle East Peace Process
12 May 2005
Shlomo Brom, Senior Research Associate
Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies (Tel Aviv)
Shala Abdel Shafi
General Director, Gaza Community Mental Health Programme (Gaza)
and Geoffrey Kemp
Director, Regional Strategic Programs, Nixon Centre, (Washington D.C.)
Iraq's Security: From Occupation to Sovereignty to Elections
2 December 2004
David Gompert
former Senior Advisor for National Security and Defense to the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Iraq
Intifadah, Roadmap, Gaza: What Next?
9 June 2004