Graduate Support was established in 1998 to provide Marshall Center alumni with an organizational point-of-contact for news, information and services, as well as to report on the career successes of the Center's alumni to stakeholders in Germany and the United States.
The Graduate Support mission has steadily evolved to meet the needs of the Center's alumni and now includes eight full-time staff, whose duties also include facilitating alumni outreach events in our partner nations, conducting major multi-day conferences, seminars and workshops to address a wide-range of security issues, and posting a daily Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) Counter-Terrorism e-Newsletter.Today, the Center has over 6,000 alumni, whose numbers include senior policymakers and military officers, as well as career civil servants from dozens of ministries in nearly 110 partner nations. The Graduate Support mission statement is to "connect, communicate and cooperate" with alumni and collectively create a more stable world.
The Marshall Center Knowledge Portal is a password protected web portal that can be accessed via the Internet throughout the world. The Knowledge Portal allows Marshall Center alumni, staff and partners to maintain contact with one another, share their most recent career and contact information, post stories and discuss current events in academic discussion groups, as well as download newsletters and various academic materials presented at the Marshall Center or during the Center's numerous Outreach Events. The Knowledge Portal also provides users access to over 20 commercial news and information databases that offer the full texts of articles and research papers from thousands of periodicals in multiple languages. To access to the Knowledge Portal directly, go to the following link: https://members.marshallcenter.org/.
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More than 60 inter-ministerial, security professionals gathered at the Army House in Sarajevo to discuss NATO membership responsibilities Feb. 22. Among the guests were the ministers of defense, foreign affairs and security as well as the commandant, NATO HQ Sarajevo and the Norwegian ambassador to BiH. Besides the Marshall Center 27 alumni who attended there were representatives from the ministry of interior, US Embassy, NGOs, the University of Sarajevo, OSCE, UNDP and the media.
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Colonel Oleh Poshedin (EP 2004-5), the chief of the International Relations and Euro-Atlantic Integration Department at the National Defense Academy of Ukraine, has been selected as the graduate of the month for the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies for February 2010.
Poshedin, who graduated from the Military Academy in 1983, has served in a wide variety of military assignments, to include participating in relief operations following the 1986 Chernobyl Atomic Power...
The Marshall Center has named Mr. Alvaro Ballesteros as featured Graduate of the Month for November.
Mr. Alvaro Ballesteros attended the Marshall Center LPASS 2007-4 course while assigned as the Executive Director, European Academy for International Training (EAIT), Granada, Spain. He then went on to assume duties as a Security Issues Expert in the Department of Security Awareness Issues at the OSCE Mission in UNMIK/Kosovo. On 01 April 2009, he assumed the position of Senior Political...
On 29 October 2009 the Marshall Center Alumni Association of Azerbaijan, in conjunction with the Marshall Center, the MOD and U.S. Embassy Baku held a roundtable entitled “The Current Situation in Afghanistan.”
Fifteen Marshall Center alumni participated in the roundtable, representing MOD, MFA, Ministry of National Security, Ministry of Emergency Situations, and the Border Service. The event took place in the Park Inn Hotel, Baku.
Mr. Donald Lu, chargé d’affaires, U.S. Embassy Baku,...
On Sep 24 alumni gathered for their second roundtable this year to hear a panel discussion entitled, “Current Situation in Afghanistan.” The panel included three topics: warfare, economy and politics and was led by Prof. James Wither, Dr. Jack Treddenick and Dr. Ann Phillips respectively.
Association General Secretary LTC Milan Tepsic (LC2002-3, EPASS 2007-1) was the roundtable's chief organizer and served as the master of ceremonies for the event. The participants listened to the...
The Marshall Center has named Ambassador Petr Voznica of the Czech Republic as featured Graduate of the Month for October.
Ambassador Voznica, in addition to his noteworthy diplomatic service, is a retired major general of the Czech Armed Forces with a PhD in Operational Skills and Tactics. He first graduated with a degree in Military Chemistry from the Military College of Ground Forces in Vyškov na Moravě in 1977, followed by the completion of postgraduate degrees at the Military Academy...
The Marshall Center has named Minister of Defense Dr. Selmo Cikotic from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) as featured Graduate of the Month for Sep 2009.
Dr. Cikotic was appointed Minister of Defense in 2007 after retiring from the army in 2004 as Brigadier. Dr. Cikotic began his army career in the education center in Zadar, Croatia after attending both military school in Serbia and military academy in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. In 1992 he became a member of the Army of the...
Mr. Robert Johnson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, has been named as the featured Marshall Center Graduate of the Month for August 2009.
Mr. Johnson attended the Marshall Center Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS 07-2) in 2007. In 2009 he returned to Garmisch-Partenkirchen as an Adjunct Faculty member for PTSS 09-7. This was in accordance with a new initiative to invite select security experts from the FBI to join...
The Marshall Center has named COL J. Enkhbayar from Mongolia as featured Graduate of the Month for July 2009. COL J. Enkhbayar is the deputy head of studies, Defense University of Mongolia. A professor and candidate of sciences, COL J. Enkhbayar was appointed to this position in 2007.
COL J. Enkhbayar graduated from the Marshall Center’s Program in Advanced Security Studies (EPASS) 2006-7, as a senior researcher and associate professor in the Defense Research Institute, Defense...
On behalf of Brig. Gen. Tracy Garrett, commanding general, Marine Forces Europe/ Marine Forces Africa, the Marshall Center organized a conference July 23-24 in Freising, Germany to advance the discussion of the future of expeditionary operations in Europe. Twenty participants from 15 countries, including 6 Marshall Center alumni, participated in the conference which was titled “Emerging Littoral Security Issues”.
Two senior mentors, VADM (ret) David Frost and Lt. Gen. (ret) John...
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