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Forty-six finish GCMC civil security seminar

GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany – Forty-six people from 33 countries graduated from the Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies here June 29.

Army Lt. Gen Kathleen M. Gainey, director of logistics for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, provided the keynote address talking about interagency and multinational cooperation.

“If everyone knows the shortfalls, they can then provide ideas and options for solutions that we hadn’t even thought about,” General Gainey said. “Collectively you work those issues and it means you end up with a much better solution.”

In addition to Europe, Eurasian, Central Asia and U.S. graduates, representatives from the Bahamas, Lebanon, Maldives, Nigeria, Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Rwanda, and Senegal received graduation certificates.

The three-week seminar examines best practices for ensuring civil security and preventing, preparing for and managing the consequences of domestic and regional crises and disasters.

STACS is offered twice a year for military officers and government officials responsible for civil security policies and programs, as well as representatives of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations with civil security responsibilities.

Last Updated on Wednesday, 30 June 2010 13:53
 

Twelfth Annual Conference of the PFP Consortium

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Polish Maj. Gen. Romauld Ratajczak addresses
conference participants.
(Photo by SMSgt Mark Winkler)

Members of the Partnership for Peace Consortium of Defense Academies and Security Studies met June 17-18 for their 12th annual conference. 

About 130 participants from 25 countries attended the conference in Warsaw at the invitation of Poland’s National Defense Academy to discuss current defense, security, and stability policy issues. 

 

Consortium Director Henri Bigo moderated the event, the focus of which was the formation and use of expert networks in support of training in defense and development partnership.

The chairman of the consortium, Dr. James MacDougall, U.S. Deputy Director for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, explained in his welcoming speech the high value of the consortium in its efforts to establish partnerships and promote on this basis the training and education efforts by partner countries.  He said it is through the partnerships, training and education that pressing problems of security and stability in the Euro-Atlantic area become possible to fix.

Last Updated on Friday, 25 June 2010 07:11 Read more...
 


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