Ambassador Marc Perrin de Brichambaut (left), Secretary General of the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe answers a question posed by a participant in the Marshall Center’s Program in Advanced Security Studies Feb. 20. The secretary general, Ambassador Julie Finley, U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE and Ambassador Dr. Axel Berg, Germany’s Permanent Representative to the OSCE, took part in a panel discussion on the OSCE’s perspective on rule of law, elections and human rights. Center Director Dr. John Rose (right) moderated. More than 120 military and civilian officials from 33 countries are attending the current PASS course

Lt. Gen. Kalmurat S. Sadiev, Kyrgyz Republic Ministry of Defense and Col. Gerhard Blaesing, Director of Outreach Programs for the Marshall Center, greet each other on the opening day of the Seminar on Strategic Planning and Developing Threat Methodologies Feb. 12. Security experts from five Central Asian states focused on how nations can develop a portfolio of national and defense strategies and plan against external threats, at the three-day event in Freising, Germany.