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JASON Seminar"NATO, diplomacy and force"11th-15th April 1999
In April 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Association has been founded in Washington by twelve nations, including the Netherlands. The main objective of NATO is to guarantee the freedom and security of all its members with the help of political and military means, in accordance with the principles of the United Nations Charter. NATO executes its security policy among other things by maintaining the established military force, a general capacity to control crises and encouraging the dialogue with other nations and the joint approach of the European security. Mainly the alteration in (security) situations in Europe during the years has had significant impact on the path of NATO. The leaders of government and the heads of state of NATO's member states have emphasised this matter during the London Summit in 1990 and they have determined that NATO should adapt to this new situation. At the Rome Summit in 1991 the permanent importance of NATO, as a transatlantic co-operation and a joint defence organisation, has been stressed in the strategic Concept. Furthermore NATO sees encouraging of stability and peace in the whole of Europe, even out of area, as its responsibility. Developments as in former Yugoslavia require a new military approach of NATO. The emphasis will be focused on flexibility in an unpredictable and unstable environment. This has already led to military forces like SFOR (Stabilisation Force), where co-operation with non member states is realised. In 1999 NATO will exist 50 years. In honour of this 50th anniversary, the JASON Foundation assisted by the Dutch Atlantic Treaty Association, will organise a seminar from the 11th up to the 15th of April. The subject of the seminar is :
Students and graduates from the member states of NATO, the PfP (Parnership for Peace) and the other OSCE countries (Organsiation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) will be given the opportunity to participate in an intensive study programme. As a result of the compositin of the seminar, the participants will be professionally informed about the relation and conflicts between diplomacy and force within the framework of NATO. With this, the emphasis will be focused on the actual developments, as mentioned before.
During the second day of the seminar, the participants will be informed by directors-general of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the Dutch vision, considering the future of NATO. In the afternoon the emphasis will be on the decision making process within NATO, by means of a simulation game at The Institute Clingendael (the Netherlands Institute of international affairs). A mixture of information and skill training in the decision making process will give the participants clarity in the issues of consensus of this process within NATO. In order to train the diplomatic skills of the participants to a large extend, they will even have to look after their interests concerning the case during dinner. The last day of the seminar exist of a conference. The students and graduates will be given an opportunity to discuss matters concerning the subject "NATO, diplomacy and force". The two parts of the subjects, diplomacy and force, will be discussed in four study groups. Experts in the field of the different sub themes will lead the study groups. The participants will be able to discuss the matters elaborate with the experts as a result of the knowledge already acquired during the preceding days.
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