Geneva Centre for Security Policy Where knowledge meets experience
Your Ministry
The Geneva Centre for Security Policy is an international foundation supported by the Swiss government with 45 member states. It was established in 1995 for the primary purpose of promoting peace, security and stability through executive education and training, policy research, and dialogue.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES WE OFFER • Comprehensive courses (including residential Masters programme) unpacking and analysing the most pressing and complex transnational security issues, critically reviewing current and innovating future policy responses. • Targeted courses that focus on understanding and responding to emerging transnational and global security issues, and the prospects they present for the future. • Courses that deepen understanding and the ability to navigate the cross-section of issues that are unique to a particular region and the wider security implications they present. • A variety of courses that build strategic capabilities and develop professional skills essential to foreign and security policy advisors and decision makers.
OTHER WAYS WE CAN SUPPORT YOU • Through partnering with you to design and deliver customised courses that are tailored to meet the specific requirements of your ministry. • By providing mid- or high-level officials from your ministry who are in between missions, preparing for a new position, or are on sabbatical with the opportunity to take part in a 2-6 month (or more) residency at the GCSP as part of the GCSP’s Fellowship Initiative • Commission the GCSP to deliver tailor-made courses, host public discussions or dialogue events as part of your ministry’s capacity-building, outreach and/or relationshipbuilding activities involving partner nations. • By providing newly arrived Geneva Mission staff with a course on multilateralism and the role of Geneva based institutions to facilitate their swift orientation.
• By complementing your existing entry level and junior diplomatic training curricula with modules for multi-national participant groups focussed on trans-national global/EU issues.
Do you have any questions? Please do not hesitate to contact us at info@gcsp.ch or give us a call at +41 (0)22 730 96 00.