The dialogue between both institutions started in 2010 (with one exception in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic), and the 2021 edition was held in virtual form. The delegations were led by Ambassador Thomas Greminger, the new Director of GCSP, and Maj. Gen.
A snapshot of contemporary wars shows a picture that is drifting away from the Clausewitzian understanding of war.[1] Instead, the conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan or Libya demonstrate that warfare is increasingly waged through surrogates.
VIENNA, 12 May 2021 — How technological advances contribute to a new generation of warfare and the challenges this presents was discussed at an OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation (FSC) meeting held online today under the Armenian FSC Chairmanship.
Team "Argonauts" from ETH Zürich are the winners of the 2021 “Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge” co-organised by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the 
‘No-first-use’ is a policy that can be adopted by a nuclear armed (or allied) state to never initiate a nuclear exchange by being the first to use nuclear weapons. China and India have declared such policies. The Soviet Union/Russia had such a policy from 1982 to 1993.
On Tuesday 4 May 2021, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan, HE Fariz Fikrat oglu Rzayev, visited the GCSP, together with HE Ambassador Vaqif Sadiqov, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Azerbaijan to the UN Office in Geneva, and his deputy, M