JOURNAL: The Journal of Conventional Weapons Destruction
Opportunities for Regional Training and Information Exchange Reap Benefits for Central Asia by Paige Ober (CISR), Nazira Shozodaeva (OSCE), Takhmina Akhmedova (OSCE), and Suzanne Fiederlein (CISR)
Group photo after the Opening Ceremony of the EOD course, 2017, Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Image courtesy of OSCE.
R
egional cooperation and regional partnerships are an
States Department of State’s Office of Weapons Removal
important aspect of creating strong and sustainable
and Abatement (PM/WRA) and in partnership with the
humanitarian mine action programs across the globe.
Tajikistan National Mine Action Center (TNMAC), recently
Challenges and opportunities endemic to a particular region
completed a Regional Senior Managers’ Course (R-SMC) for
are best addressed by the experience and expertise of local or-
the South and Central Asian region. As always, building and
ganizations. Facilitating ways to foster information sharing is
strengthening regional partnerships was a specific topic of
an imperative for the success of regional security goals.
discussion at the SMC as was the opportunity for participants
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
to learn from one another in the classroom. The input from
(OSCE) seeks to support these goals by coordinating work-
these international organizations expands the already signifi-
shops and trainings in the Central Asian region in order to
cant steps that national programs are making in the region.
foster a cooperative mechanism among states that would address concerns and challenges stemming from the disposal of
OSCE Regional Training and Workshops
explosive hazards. The Center for International Stabilization
Over the past decade the OSCE has undertaken “confidence-
and Recovery (CISR), through sponsorship from the United
building” as part of its political-military pillar, a system that
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