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"At GCSP, we focus on finding solutions to global challenges. What topic could be more important than the one we are discussing today? This is not an academic or theoretical exercise. Our existence as a species is at stake" says Greminger.
Since its first edition in 1986, the most critical issues in international security are addressed in a round table format and facilitate the exchange between experts and practitioners.
Technological innovations have always shaped conflict and war. In the 20th century, technological developments in the military realm mainly concerned conventional weapons, such as fighter jets, missiles, and tanks, as well as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
The world faces a toxic mix of intertwined environmental crises, a darkening security horizon and the failure of policy to address the complexity of new risks emerging.
The war between Russia and Ukraine as well as other ongoing conflicts from the Lake Chad Basin to Yemen are causing massive suffering by civilians. Civilians are caught up in fighting, deliberately targeted, denied access to basic needs, and forced to flee.
What were the underlying and immediate causes of the October 1962 crisis? What factors made it possible to avert nuclear war? What are the similarities and differences between the crisis in 1962 and today?
The world has descended into a state of acute polarization and great power contestation. The war on Ukraine has had a profound impact on world affairs with a sharp rise in food and energy insecurity, spiking inflation rates and struggling economies.