The term ‘White Paper’ is typically used in government circles to denote a publicly available, balanced document designed to help readers make decisions.
"There is a growing need for development assistance yet shrinking resources… This is a tough environment. But it is what it is. That does not mean doing more with less. It means being smarter with what we have.
Cooperation is key to understanding ‘lasting’ security within and between states International cooperation is often measured by our ability to avoid resorting to the use of bullets and bombs.
Watch insights and perspectives from Fellows for Hope following their week long immersion engaging with key issues and actors managing international security challenges in Geneva and Bern.
NATO and partner states created the Partnership for Peace (PfP) at the end of the Cold War to strengthen cooperation for peace and security, notably in Europe. In this vein, GCSP is a Partnership Training and Education Centre (PTEC) and traditionally contributes to the PfP.
The conflict in Ukraine is, firstly, one between Ukraine and some of its inhabitants, and with Russia.1 Other European States, the United States and a few other countries are directly involved as well, to an extent unprecedented in the other cases of post-Soviet ‘frozen conflicts’.
Watch our very first of a new series of “Geneva Security Debates” with Prof. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Ischinger and Amb. Thomas Greminger, chaired by Dr. Christian Schori Liang on “The Art of Diplomacy.” Is it an art, a craft?
Ces dernières semaines, l’armée ukrainienne a enregistré plusieurs revers dans le Donbass, le front principal de la guerre. Elle a perdu la ville de Severodonetsk puis dans la foulée celle de Lyssytchansk, sur l’autre rive de la rivière Donets. Ce qui devait arriver est arrivé.
The exact nature of the peace and security environment of 2025 is, of course, unknown, but we have information available to us today and yesterday’s experience to guide us in our attempts to imagine what the key features of that environment might be.