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Dear conference participants,
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you on behalf of the Euro-Atlantic Center and the Slovak Atlantic Commission on the official web page of the GLOBSEC 2006 International Conference. Terrorist attacks from the past years that occurred in New York, Madrid, London and many other places around the globe, but also the recent attempts to attack transatlantic flights and even civilian objects and infrastructure in Prague, point out the fact that five years after September 11, 2001 international terrorism still poses one of the most serious threats to global security. The GLOBSEC 2006 Conference is the follow-up event of its successful predecessor held in October 2005 in Bratislava with the title The Role of the Transatlantic Partnership in the Global Security Environment. The Euro-Atlantic Center, together with its partners aims to establish and—following the example of similar events organized in other countries—to annually carry on in a tradition of an international conference that will focus on current and important issues of global security. In the long-run, the EAC`s goal is to create space for a qualified discussion of Slovak and foreign security experts and in the end result to present in such way Slovakia as a country that wants to make a significant contribution to the international debate on current security issues and an ally and partner that is active not only on the battlefield but also in the field of public diplomacy. One of the tools to achieve this goal is the GLOBSEC Conference web page that will provide you with all necessary information concerning the aims and the agenda of the conference, speakers and participants, as well as the final conclusions and conference proceedings. In addition, I hope you will also consider it as a useful source of information for bolstering your discussion and research on global security issues. I wish you all many fruitful thoughts and a pleasant stay in Bratislava. Boris Ecker President of the Euro-Atlantic Center Articles/News:
SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS
13.2.2007
On December 14, 2006, the Euro-Atlantic Center, in cooperation with the Slovak Atlantic Commission, cosponsored by the NATO Public Diplomacy Division, United Nation Information Service Vienna and the US Embassy, convened an international conference in Bratislava on international terrorism and the fight against it. The event aimed to assess the security environment of today and tomorrow in terms of international terrorism; examine the contemporary and future role of NATO and other international organizations in the fight against terrorism; identify how real the threat of international terrorism is to Slovakia; ascertain the opinion of the Slovak security community on international terrorism and discuss ways to deal with it; and come up with recommendations on how the society can better prepare itself for a terrorist threat. read more...
Michal Kohút: Spoločná stratégia – možná či nemožná?
3.12.2006
Od 11.9.2001 si aktéri medzinárodných vzťahov aj ich vnútorné štruktúry kladú otázku, ako čeliť hrozbe terorizmu, a ako sú ich schopnosti v súlade s týmto úsilím. Pokúšajú sa prispôsobiť a formulovať svoju odpoveď.
Po krátkom súzvuku medzi Európou a Spojenými štátmi v prvých týždňoch po útoku na WTC a Pentagon, kedy sa zdalo, že spojenci zo studenej vojny sa aj novej hrozbe postavia v spojenectve formulujúc spoločnú stratégiu, sa začali pri v pohľade na tento problém a vhodnú reakciu naň črtať isté rozdiely, ako súčasť širšieho trendu, čo v spojení so sporadickou búrlivou rétorikou z oboch strán, podľa niektorých znamená, že spoločná euro-americká stratégia proti terorizmu nie je ani žiaduca, ani možná. Po piatich rokoch je vhodný čas premyslieť prípadnú revíziu. read more... Experts Agree to Bolster Terrorism Prevention in Central and South-East Europe
25.11.2006
VIENNA, 16 November 2006 (UN Information Service) -- Experts from 12 Central and South-East European States and nine international and regional organizations have agreed on practical measures to improve national and region-wide terrorism prevention.
Participants at a meeting in Bucharest identified areas requiring action, particularly in strengthening the legal regime against terrorism and greater international cooperation in fighting terrorism, corruption and transnational organized crime. The seminar, which took place from 13 to 15 November, was organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), with the support of the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe. Mr. Ion Codescu, Secretary of State in the Romanian Ministry of Justice, underlined the threat posed by terrorism to regional stability and to the fundamental values of democracy. The seminar was an opportunity to introduce new legal instruments against terrorism and corruption such as the 2005 International Convention for the Suppression of Acts of Nuclear Terrorism and the United Nations Convention against Corruption, which entered into force on 14 December 2005. read more... NATO and the fight against terrorism
25.11.2006
The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington thrust not only the United States but also the entire NATO Alliance into the fight against terrorism.
Less than 24 hours after the attacks, NATO invoked for the first time Article 5 of the Washington Treaty - its collective defence clause - declaring the attacks to be an attack against all NATO members. The Alliance subsequently deployed aircraft and ships in support of the United States. Since then, and following other tragic attacks, NATO has been engaged actively in the campaign against terrorism on both the political and military fronts. read more... World Security Institute: Explaining Terrorism
25.11.2006
In recent years, a tendency towards increasing violence manifested itself across terrorism generally, with twice as many fatalities caused by terrorist attacks between 1980 and 1986 than had been the case in the preceding seven-year period. Religious terrorism proved especially prone to these higher levels of violence. By 1993, this was particularly evident from the record of Shia Islamic terrorist groups. read more...
World Security Institute: EU Fight Against Terrorism
25.11.2006
If most Americans tend to view terrorism thorough the prism of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center, many in the European Union are more likely to consider (or rather reconsider) it in light of the Madrid bombings of March 2004 or those that occurred in London in July 2005. Before Madrid or London, the likes of the IRA, ETA, and the Red Brigades shaped European perceptions of the threat posed by terrorists. However, as Sept. 11 was for Americans so, albeit it to a far lesser degree, Madrid and London were for Europeans. They gave notice that it was impossible to ignore that terrorists’ means and ends had changed. Even if, as some have charged, Europe still does not realise the full implications of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Madrid and London bombings did serve as a ‘wake up call’ of sorts as far as international terrorism is concerned.
read more... Teror je zrejme otázkou času: Róbert Kotian z Domino Fóra interviewoval Mária Nicoliniho
22.11.2006
Hoci základnú vojenskú službu skončil ako desiatnik, stal sa poradcom štátneho tajomníka ministerstva obrany. Hrozbu teroru na Slovensku považuje za
reálnu a tvrdí, že tradičné chápanie občianskych práv zomrelo 11. septembra 2001. Mário Nicolini. read more... Martin Sviatko: Islamský terorizmus: myšlienka a strach
4.11.2006
Po piatich rokoch od spustenia vojenskej operácie Spojenými štátmi vedenej koalície v Afganistane sa čoraz častejšie ozývajú hlasy volajúce po prehodnotení globálneho prístupu ku globálnemu terorizmu. Pod týmto sa najčastejšie rozumie opustenie celkovej stratégie bleskovej leteckej vojny a následného nasadenia špecializovaných vojenských zborov. read more...
Jana Miňová: Terrorism: What has changed…?
4.11.2006
Terrorism and how to respond to it looms large in the current transatlantic debate, with the Europeans often being accused of failing to recognise terrorism as the major strategic issue of the early twenty-first century and thus putting their own security as well as that of others at risk. read more...
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