Opening plenary - Reaffirming the Peace-Security Nexus in Turbulent Times: Vienna and Geneva's Common Agenda

This opening plenary will examine why reaffirming the Peace-Security nexus is especially urgent in today’s geopolitical environment. Against a backdrop of growing geopolitical rivalry, pressure on multilateralism, and increasingly fragmented approaches to global challenges, the discussion will explore how peace and security can be understood and advanced as mutually reinforcing rather than competing priorities. Bringing together perspectives from Geneva and Vienna, it will highlight the complementarity between their respective multilateral ecosystems, reflect on promising strategies to strengthen cooperation across institutional silos, and consider how greater synergies can help elevate peacebuilding and operationalize more integrated approaches in practice.

Speakers

• H.E. Feridun H. Sinirlioğlu, Secretary General, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
• Ambassador Raphael Nägeli, Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the OSCE, the United Nations and other International Organizations in Vienna
• Ambassador Thomas Greminger, Director, Geneva Centre for Security Policy - President, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
• Dr. Annyssa Bellal, Executive Director, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform
• Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch, President, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
• Ms. Kate Fearon, Director, OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre and Deputy Head of the OSCE Secretariat
• Ms. Rebecca Jovin, Chief of Office, UN Office for Disarmament Affairs at Vienna
• Ms. Osnat Lubrani, Affiliated Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs (oiip)

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