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A NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Developing Collaboration to Assess and Respond to Threats to Security in and around the Mediterranean Basin” took place in Madrid from 19-21 March, and brought together participants from 21 NATO, partner and Medi

A NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Developing Collaboration to Assess and Respond to Threats to Security in and around the Mediterranean Basin” took place in Madrid from 19-21 March, and brought together participants from 21 NATO, partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries. Although in the planning for a number of weeks, the workshop took on an added urgency in the wake of the devastating bomb attacks in Madrid the previous week.

Held at the Spanish Centre for Defence Studies, the objectives of the workshop were:

  • to discuss new security challenges as perceived by Mediterranean countries in an atmosphere of sensitivity, understanding and mutual respect; .
  • to identify common ground – security threats which threaten all;
  • to identify key areas of disagreement which need to be tackled in detail and prioritise them in order of urgency and importance;
  • to identify possible areas of concrete interrelationship and cooperation and develop an informal network of experts in the region;
  • to develop proposals for setting up a more effective regular dialogue also with policy makers in NATO nations and Mediterranean Dialogue countries.

In order to achieve these objectives, the Workshop addressed the following issues:

  • New and emerging threats to collective security in the Mediterranean
  • National, multilateral and non-governmental responses and their impact in Europe, the Balkans, North Africa and the Middle East
  • Tools and mechanisms for: conflict warning and prevention, crisis management, conflict resolution, reconciliation, recovery and reconstruction.
  • Evaluating the role of force in response to threats to security and search for ways to improve the existing mechanisms for collaboration and for policy orientation

The participants were most conscious of the timeliness of this event, and its location in Madrid, a city which is still recovering from the cruel and large-scale terrorist attack which took the lives of over 200 people a week earlier. It reinforced their conviction that the Mediterranean Region is now, more than ever, a crucial place to build cross-cultural bridges.

The meeting was an event supported under the NATO Programme for Security Through Science.