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  Kenneth Roth
Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
 

  

Admiral James Stavridis
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

 
   

Anne-Marie Slaughter
Director of Policy Planning, United States Department of State

   

Josette Sheeran
Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme
 

 

   

General Håkan Syrén
Chairman, European Union Military Committee

   

Kai Eide
United Nations Special Representative to Afghanistan (UNAMA)

   

Carl Bildt
Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden


   

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27 January – International Conference

Women, Peace and Security

  

 

 On January 27th, Vice-President Margot Wallström and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen hosted a high-level conference on women, peace and security in the European Commission premises. This conference saw the participation of Spanish First Vice-President Maria Teresa Fernández de la Vega, Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright alongside civil society representatives, military officials, high-level policy-makers and witnesses. The participants concluded that all EU and NATO-led operations must comply with UN resolutions relating to women, peace and security, and must be supported by appropriate training, education, monitoring and evaluation mechanisms.

For event outcomes in English, please click here.
For Spanish, click here.
For French, click here.

Videos of the event’s speeches can be found on the NATO website, please click here.

Read press coverage of this event.

  
2 March – International Conference

 Conflict prevention and resolution: a new role for cultural relations?

             

On March 2nd, the SDA, the British Council and NATO will hold a conference on the role of cultural relations in conflict prevention and resolution.

Clashes of culture, related to religious beliefs, ethnicity or different values often lie at the root of security problems. Can a better understanding of these fundamental issues hold the key to conflict prevention, as well as peacemaking and peacekeeping?

Drawing lessons from three case studies -Afghanistan, Africa and the Balkans, the conference will try to identify best practices in inter-cultural dialogue and understanding in conflict areas. 

A special focus will be given to civil-military cooperation in the concluding panel: what new approaches should be developed to help both civilian and military personnel in the field to bring a greater cultural dimension to their missions?

More information on this event.

  
Where we are

The Security & Defence Agenda (SDA) is based in the Bibliothèque Solvay in the Parc Léopold next to the European Parliament.

The building houses the SDA team and serves as the venue for almost all SDA events in Brussels.

  
SDA Partners

Friends of Europe

SDA’s sister think-tank, Friends of Europe, is a prominent and lively Brussels-based think-tank for EU policy analysis and debate. 

  
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Jam Session


Organised by a number of leading think tanks in collaboration with IBM and with the official support of the European Commission and NATO.

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click here.

  
SDA Speakers

Karl von Wogau
Chairman of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence, European Parliament

 

Jana Hybaskova
Member of the European Parliament

 

Clemens von Goetze
Ambassador, German PSC Representative to the EU

 

Lt. Gen. David Leakey Director General of the EU Military Staff

 

Jamie Shea
Director for Policy Planning, Private Office of the Secretary General of NATO

 

Rt. Hon. Desmond Browne 
Former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

 

Hilmar Linnenkamp
Former Deputy Chief Executive, European Defence Agency

 

Henri Bentégeat
Chairman of the EU Military Committee

 

Franco Frattini
Former Vice President for Justice, Freedom and Security, European Commission

 

Peter Altmaier
Former Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Interior, Federal Republic of Germany

 

Ana Maria Gomes
MEP and Vice Chairwoman, Committee on Security & Defence, European Parliament

 

Christine Roger
PSC Ambassador, Permanent Representation of France to the EU

 

Giancarlo Grasso
Former Chairman of the ASD Commission and Vice-Chairman of ESRIF, Finmeccanica

 

Gijs de Vries
Former EU Counter-Terrorism Co-ordinator

 

Brig. Gen. Illka Laitinen
Executive Director, European Border Management Agency (FRONTEX)

 

Geoffrey Van Orden
MEP, SubCommittee on Security and Defence, European Parliament

 

Gen. John Craddock
Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR)

 

Jaak Aaviksoo
Minister of Defence, Estonia

 

Vladimir Chizhov
Ambassador, Mission of the Russian Federation to the EU

 

Sorin D. Ducaru
Romanian Ambassador to NATO

 

Baron Frans van Daele
Belgian Ambassador to NATO 

 

Alexander Lambsdorff
German Member of the Security & Defence Subcommittee of the European Parliament

 

François Gayet
Secretary General of the Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD)

 

Pieter De Crem
Belgian Minister of Defence

 

Dmitry Rogozin
Ambassador, Mission of the Russian Federation to NATO

 

Alyson Bailes
Visiting Professor, University of Iceland

 

Anne-François de Saint Salvy
Former Deputy Director of the Delegation for Strategic Affairs, French Ministry of Defence

 

Bernard Jenkin
Member of the UK House of Commons, Defence Select Committee

 

Peter Weilemann
European Office Director, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung

 

Stefanie Babst
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

 

W. Bruce Weinrod
US Secretary of Defence Representative, Europe

 

Jean-François Bureau
Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATO

 

Michèle Alliot-Marie
French Minister of the Interior and Overseas Territories

 

Jacques Barrot
European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security

 

Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry
Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee

 

Tomaz Lovrencic
Deputy Director of the European Union Satellite Centre

 

Admiral Giampaolo di Paola
Chairman of the Military Committee, NATO

 

Commander Snowy Lintern
Liaison Officer of the EU Naval Force in Somalia

 

Doris Pack
MEP, Chairwoman of the Delegation for relations with the countries of South-East Europe

 

Rear Admiral Stefan Engdahl
Swedish Military Representative to the EU and the NATO EAPMC

 

Shirin Ebadi
2003 Nobel Peace Prize Winner

  
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