CMR working group, Vienna, 56 April 2002

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THIRD MEETING CMR-WORKING GROUP 5-6 April,
2002 VIENNA
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AGENDA

• 0900 Welcome and Introduction
• 0945 Use of ADL in CMR-capabilities building
• 1030 Coffee Break
• 1100 Political relevance of civil society in
  emerging democracies
• 1145 Expert Formation Questionnaire
• 1210 Crisis Management in South-Eastern Europe
• 1230 Lunch
• 1400 Project on CMR evolution in the context of
  security risks
• 1430 Project on parliamentarian control/law
• 1500 Presentation and use of Website-kit
• 1530 Coffee Break
• 1600 The Status of CMR in Bulgaria
• 1930 Cocktail reception and dinner at National
  Defence Academy

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AGENDA

• 0900 New Challenges to the classical view of CMR
• Humanitarian military interventions and their
  impact on CMR (UN-OCHA)
• 0945 Humanitarian military interventions and
  their impact on CMR in the area of International
  Humanitarian Law
• 1030 Coffee Break
• 1100 The Status of CMR in BIH
• 1130 Summary and Follow-up
• 1215 Lunch
• 2000 Heurigen

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PfP-Consortium of Defence Academies and Security
Studies Institutes
Mission

• Strengthen defense and military education through
  enhanced national and institutional cooperation.
• (Provided by US SECDEF Cohen during his
  intervention at the 12 June 1998 meeting of the
  EAPC Defense Ministers.)

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PfP-Consortium of Defence Academies and Security
Studies Institutes

• This is accomplished by developing a
  collaborative, activity-based network, which
  links defense practitioners, scholars and experts
  within the EAPC region in order to facilitate the
  sharing of information. In addition to defense
  academies and security studies institutes, an
  important component of this effort is the
  participation of universities and
  non-governmental organizations and institutes.

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PfP-Consortium of Defence Academies and Security
Studies Institutes

• Goals
• (Provided in the concluding documents of the NATO
  and EAPC Summits on 24 and 25 April 1999.)
• 1. Foster greater academic and educational
  opportunities with the defense and security
  community.
• 2. Encourage high standards for professional
  military education.
• 3. Promote more effective education through
  advanced distributive and distributed learning.

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PfP-Consortium of Defence Academies and Security
Studies Institutes

• Goals contd.
• 4. Expand dialogue and understanding and
  cooperation through security related research in
  the EAPC region.
• 5. Explore complementary relations with
  institutions such as the NATO Defense College.

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History

• Created 1998 in Zurich
• 85 participants, 42 countries, 1 WG
• Annual Conferences in Sofia (1999),
• Tallinn (2000) and Moscow (2001)
• Successful increase of participants
• 550 Conference participants, 278
  organisations, 47 countries, 27 WG/SG (17
  existing ones, 10 Russian groups)
• 2002? Criteria of Success?
• 300- 400 Conference participants, 19 WG

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Organisation

• In the spirit of PfP/ the willing
• Bodies
• Annual Conference
• Troika
• WG/SG
• Secretariat Working Group primus
• inter pares
• Secretariat
• Finances

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Funding

• Consortium funds participants from
• Non-NATO
• HUN/POL/CZ (German contribution)
• BIH/Serbia-Montenegro (special US-procedures)

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Annual Conference

• 15-17 June 2002, Paris
• Organisation/Registration Secretariat
• Meeting of ALL WG/SGs keynote speech,
  Plenaries
• Different level of participation
• Show-case of achievements
• Opportunity to use another forum
• Joint meetings with other WG/SGs

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Organisation

• Working Group on CMR
• Participants/one per organisation
• Rules and procedures
• Funding
• Reporting/success criteria
• Collaboration with secretariat
• services provided by secretariat

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CMR-WG

• Growing interest in our group, positive echo.
• New faces new institutions
• Register your organisation as a Consortium
• member
• Consortium can provide individuals and
  institutions
• with computers (with software, Internet
  access and a
• maintenance program)
• not for private use
• address the representative from the Secretariat

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THIRD MEETING CMR-WORKING GROUP 5-6 April,
2002 VIENNA
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THIRD MEETING CMR-WORKING GROUP SUMMARY FOLLOW-UP
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Vienna-Meeting

• Format of meetings has proved useful
• New the Status of CMR in xxxxx
• Projects have met interest and will continue
• Open for new proposals
• New Challenges Thanks to our Guests!!!
• Questionnaire is a first ever-try and will
  provide hope-
• fully a good inventory
• Many thanks to our hosts for their perfect
  organisation,
• their friendly support and the kind
  invitation for Friday.

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From Today to Paris

• consolidate sub-groups
• approve new concepts
• get partners for the projects
• continue working

• present the results in Paris
• start on publications
• www.dcaf.ch/cmr-wg/

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Meeting after Paris

• when early November
• where TBD

• Topics
• Work in progress
• New projects
• Consequences for CMR/
• the Consortium after Prague