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The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) is an international foundation that was established in 1995 under Swiss law “for the primary purpose of promoting peace, security and stability through executive education, research and dialogue". The GCSP was founded by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, in cooperation with the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, as a Swiss contribution to Partnership for Peace (PfP). The Centre’s three pillars of activities include:
 * Executive education
 * Dialogue and conferences
 * Applied policy analysis

Organisation

The GCSP's governing body is the Foundation Council, which consists of representatives of 48 member states and the Canton of Geneva. The Chairman of the Foundation Council is Professor François Heisbourg. The Director of the GCSP is Ambassador Christian Dussey.

Member states

Albania Armenia Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic of Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria China Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Hungary India Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Lithuania The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Mongolia Montenegro Morocco Netherlands Norway Philippines Poland Portugal Romania Russian Federation Senegal Serbia Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom United States of America Canton of Geneva

Funding

The Swiss government is the principal contributor to the GCSP's budget. Other Foundation Council members, partner states, and institutions also support the GCSP by seconding faculty, funding scholarships, and contributing to other aspects of the Centre's activities.

Location

In January 2014, the GCSP moved into the fourth tower (“petal D”) of the Maison de la paix (House of Peace), a global hub which also houses the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces and the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining  as well as Interpeace, the Small Arms Survey  and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Partners

The GCSP actively cooperates with various research and training institutions, as well as non-governmental and inter-governmental organisations located in Geneva and beyond. Common activities range from faculty exchanges, joint research, training programmes and conferences, to the sharing of resources.

Activities

GCSP's core activity is the provision of executive education in international peace and security for mid-career to senior-level diplomats, military officers, and civil servants from foreign, defence, and other relevant ministries, as well as from international organisations, and increasingly from the private sector.

Participants in GCSP courses come from countries of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council, NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue, the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative, and beyond, including South and East Asia and Africa. The GCSP offers more than 40 courses each year, including customised ones in Geneva, Bogotá, Dakar, Amman, Baku, Addis Ababa, Yerevan and Sarajevo. GCSP has more than 4000 alumni from over 140 countries.

GCSP staff write extensively in GCSP publications, international peer-reviewed journals, and other publications. In addition, they contribute regularly to the policy and academic debates on current issues on the global security agenda. Moreover, the GCSP convenes conferences, workshops, and discussions on peace and security issues. Some of the latter activities aim to facilitate discreet dialogue in post-conflict situations.

Programmes

The GCSP has four programmes, each conducting courses as well as dialogue and policy analysis activities:

Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme


 * Leadership and strategy in foreign and security policy
 * Crisis management and decision making
 * Sustainable conflict resolution (including peacebuilding)

Emerging Security Challenges Programme


 * Gauging the security implications of emerging technologies (including legal dimensions)
 * Identifying resource management challenges (e.g. relating to food security, water security)
 * Finding novel solutions to long-standing transnational challenges such as arms proliferation, cyber vulnerabilities, and terrorism

Regional Development Programme
 * Enhancing the ability of national and regional, state and non-state institutions to understand and operate globally in a fast-changing security environment

Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme
 * Emerging strategic technologies
 * Outer space
 * New international relations paradigms
 * Neuroscience and international relations
 * The five dimensions of global security

Global Fellowship Initiative

In 2014, GCSP launched its Global Fellowship Initiative, which includes five categories of fellows: Associate Fellows, Government Fellows, Executives-in-Residence, Doctoral Fellows and Young Leaders in Foreign and Security Policy.

Notable staff

Cabinet, government members, diplomats and military


 * Colonel Urs Amiet: Senior Programme Advisor of the Regional Development Programme
 * Colonel Christian Bühlmann: Head of the Regional Development Programme
 * Lieutenant General Luc Fellay: Senior Defence Advisor of the Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme
 * Mr Marc Finaud: Senior Programme Advisor of the Emerging Security Challenges Programme
 * Mr Alain Guidetti: Senior Diplomatic Advisor of the Regional Development Programme
 * Colonel Stefan Hinz: Senior Programme Officer of the Regional Development Programme
 * Brigadier General (Retd) Philippe Meyer: Chief Operating Officer

Academia


 * Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan: Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme
 * Dr Caty Clément: Senior Programme Advisor and Senior Fellow of the Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme
 * Ms Carlotta Ferrero: Senior Programme Officer of the Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme
 * Ms Miriam Fugfugosh: Senior Programme Officer of the Regional Development Programme
 * Dr Gustav Lindstrom: Head of the Emerging Security Challenges Programme
 * Dr Siobhan Martin: Senior Programme Officer, Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme; Course Manager, Leadership in International Security Course (LISC)
 * Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou: Deputy Director and Academic Dean
 * Dr Christina Schori Liang: Senior Programme Advisor and Senior Fellow of the Emerging Security Challenges Programme
 * Dr Carl Ungerer: Head of the Leadership, Crisis and Conflict Management Programme

Notable Alumni

Heads of state


 * Catherine Samba-Panza: former President of the Central African Republic, GCSP participant in the 2008 African Peacebuilding Training Course, Bamako, Mali

Cabinet, government members, diplomats and military


 * Lieutenant-Colonel Sandrine Attia: Chief of Staff and Crisis Management Support at the French Ministry of Environment, Sustainable Development and Energy. GCSP Participant in the Master of Advanced Studies in International and European Security (MAS/ITC), 2007-2008
 * Alexander Hug: Deputy Chief Monitor of the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, GCSP participant in the 1st edition of the Senior Level Peacebuilding Course, 2009
 * Lieutenant-Colonel Flavien Lanet: French Ministry of Defence in Paris, GCSP Participant of the 28th edition of the ITC, 2013-2014
 * Ambassador Yurii Klymenko: Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the UN in Geneva, GCSP participant of the ITC (1996-1997)

See also
 * Maison de la paix
 * Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council
 * NATO's Mediterranean Dialogue
 * Istanbul Cooperation Initiative

Sources of information include:
 * http://www.gcsp.ch
 * http://2014.gcsp.ch/
 * http://www.gpplatform.ch/pbguide/organisation/geneva-centre-security-policy-gcsp
 * http://www.isn.ethz.ch/Digital-Library/Organizations/Detail/?lng=en&id=13293
 * http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/71a8c286-c565-11e3-89a7-7f5a6698acbc/Nous_devrons_r%C3%A9apprendre_%C3%A0_penser_la_guerre_et_les_rapports_de_force
 * http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/6e38a7bc-3f3a-11e3-b5b9-9c909ba61645/L%C3%A0_o%C3%B9_se_forment_les_d%C3%A9cideurs_de_demain#.Um44Aqw8nmK
 * http://www.letemps.ch/Page/Uuid/d36202b4-25fe-11e3-ad2a-8501617392fc/La_Maison_de_la_paix_une_effervescence_pour_Gen%C3%A8ve#.UmFAr5QpZMU
 * https://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/fdfa/foreign-policy/human-rights/peace/maison-paix.html

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