📋 Tender Overview
The OSCE has played a vital role in preventing conflict and responding to crises over the last decade but further steps must be taken to strengthen and make better use of the OSCEs unique toolbox in relation to early warning early action dialogue facilitation mediation support and post-conflict rehabilitation.This was the main message to come from an event held on 3 December 2021 on the margins of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Stockholm to mark the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the Ministerial Council Decision on Elements of the Conflict Cycle.OSCE Secretary General Helga Maria Schmid said in her opening remarks that this Ministerial Council Decision was an innovative and forward-looking decision and that our work over the last decade demonstrates the Secretariats commitment to its implementation. Pointing to early warning as an essential part of conflict prevention the Secretary General stressed that looking forward we must ensure our conflict cycle instruments remain robust and adequate to tackle contemporary security challenges.Moderated by Tuula Yrjl Director of the OSCE Conflict Prevention Centre the event featured contributions from Audronius Aubalis former Lithuanian Foreign Minister and the 2011 OSCE Chairperson-in-Office former OSCE Secretaries General Lamberto Zannier and Thomas Greminger former CPC Directors Adam Kobieracki and Marcel Pesko as well as Annika Sder the Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the South Caucasus. These high-level speakers shared their views on how best to make full use of existing instruments to address the different phases of the conflict cycle.
