Podcasts about gcsp

Jonas Schneiter est entouré pour cette émission de Stephan Davidshofer, Suzette Sandoz, Coline de Senarclens et de l'humoriste Robin Chessex. L'équipe débat de la victoire de Donald Trump, de l'interdiction de se masquer le visage et de la prostitution illégale. En deuxième partie d'émission, les beaux parleurs accueillent Jean-Marc Rickli, directeur des risques globaux et émergents au GCSP.

In this episode, Dr Lauren Sanders speaks with Professor Stuart Casey-Maslen about Directed Energy Weapons. They traverse the existing legal controls on these weapons, and speak about the potential for future regulation of novel uses of energy weapons in armed conflict.  This conversation preceded a presentation by Dr Casey-Maslen, Dr Sanders and  Dr Altman for UNIDIR, which was a side event to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Meeting of States Parties, held in November 2023.  Stuart Casey-Maslen is an international lawyer and Professor at the University of Pretoria, specialising in the use of force and the protection of civilians, and he has published numerous books and articles on this topic. He is also an Associate Fellow within the Global Fellowship Initiative of the GCSP.  Additional Resources: United Nations Human Rights Guidance on Less-Lethal Weapons in Law Enforcement, 01 June 2020.ICRC Expert Meeting on Legal Reviews of Weapons and the SlrUS Project.A/78/324: Thematic study on the global trade in weapons, equipment and devices used by law enforcement and other public authorities that are capable of inflicting torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, 24 Aug 23.

durée : 00:58:58 - Cultures Monde - par : Julie Gacon, Mélanie Chalandon - Depuis un an, Vladimir Poutine menace d'utiliser l'arme nucléaire en cas d'agression américaine et de l'OTAN. Depuis quelques années, les traités encadrant l'armement nucléaire sont peu à peu délaissés. Que reste-t-il des objectifs de non-prolifération nucléaire ? - invités : Marc Finaud Marc Finaud, ancien diplomate français, professeur associé au Centre de Politique de Sécurité de Genève (GCSP) et membre du Bureau d'Initiatives pour le Désarmement nucléaire (IDN).; Benjamin Hautecouverture Maître de recherches à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique; Valérie Niquet Politologue, responsable du pôle Asie à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique

Débat entre Jean-Marc Rickli, directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP) de Genève, Jacques Ehrenfreund, professeur d'histoire des Juifs et du judaïsme à l'UNIL, et Marcelo Kohen, professeur de droit international à l'Institut de Hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID).

Rencontre avec Jean-Marc Rickli, directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP) et Co-président du groupe de travail sur les défis sécuritaires émergents au sein du partenariat pour la paix de l'OTAN. Dans le cadre du débat "Quels sont les risques d'escalade ou d'extension de la guerre russo-ukrainienne, organisé par le club de la presse.    

Depuis un mois, la Russie engage des “drones kamikazes” en essaim, capables de franchir près de 1000 kilomètres et chargés d'explosifs, sur des cibles en Ukraine. Ces  armes sont encore rudimentaires en regard des armes autonomes en développement de plus en plus sophistiquées. Les cibles ne sont plus choisies par des combattants humains mais par les armes elles-mêmes. Dopées à l'intelligence artificielle, ce seront aussi elles qui déclencheront automatiquement les frappes. Beaucoup de questions se posent aujourd'hui sur les limites de telles armes et nous serons en compagnie de Jean-Marc Rickli, Directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP), rencontré au club de la presse.  

Interview de Jean-Marc Rickli, directeur au Centre de Politique et Sécurité, Genève (GCSP).

durée : 00:13:38 - Les Enjeux internationaux - par : Julie Gacon - A Vienne s'est clôturée hier la première réunion des Etats-membres du Traité d'interdiction sur les armes nucléaires, entré en vigueur en janvier 2021. Quels arguments la guerre en Ukraine a-t-elle donné aux uns et aux autres, partisans de l'interdiction et tenants de la dissuasion nucléaire ? - invités : Marc Finaud Marc Finaud, ancien diplomate français, professeur associé au Centre de Politique de Sécurité de Genève (GCSP) et membre du Bureau d'Initiatives pour le Désarmement nucléaire (IDN).

Interview de Jean-Marc Rickli, directeur des risques globaux et de la résilience au Centre de Politique de Sécurité (GCSP) de Genève.

durée : 00:37:49 - Le Temps du débat - par : Emmanuel Laurentin - Depuis l'invasion de l'Ukraine, la Russie menace d'utiliser ses armes nucléaires. Alors que le désarmement était un horizon depuis la fin de la Guerre froide, quel est le sens de cette rupture géopolitique ? Comment la communauté internationale peut-elle la prendre en compte ? - invités : Marc Finaud Ancien diplomate français, professeur associé au Centre de Politique de Sécurité de Genève (GCSP) et membre du Bureau d'Initiatives pour le Désarmement nucléaire (IDN); Benjamin Hautecouverture maître de recherche à la Fondation pour la recherche stratégique; Mélanie Rosselet Enseignante au Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Etudes sur le nucléaire et la stratégie (CIENS) de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, directrice de l'analyse stratégique du Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA/DAM)

Geneva Peace-Cast is a new series highlighting solutions emerging from Geneva Peace Week, produced by Interpeace and Fondation Hirondelle in coordination with Geneva Peacebuilding Platform. This podcast is launched on the occasion of Geneva Peace Week's 2021 edition, happening live at Maison de la Paix and online from November 1 to Nov.5. Episode 9: Oli Brown, Associate Fellow with Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) and GCSP, specialist in peacebuilding, natural resources management and environmental politics, interviewed by Jacqueline Dalton, on the role of natural resources distribution and governance in conflicts.

Interview de Marc Finaud, spécialiste des questions de prolifération et de désarmement au Centre de Politique de Sécurité de Genève (GCSP).

Listen to this special edition podcast with multiple experts providing analyses on the Biden-Putin Summt in Geneva on 16 June 2021. This is episode 16 in the 2021 GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow in the Global Fellowship Initiative. As you all know, on the 16th of June 2021, Geneva hosted the first in person meeting of President of the United States Joe Biden, and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. This was the first in person meeting of the two leaders since Biden's election to the presidency of the US. It was a Summit which had generated a lot of interest a lot of coverage, over 3,000 journalists converged on Geneva for what was billed as an important and historical landmark meeting that was in line with previous US-Soviet meetings in Geneva, in 1955, and 1985. Much was expected and much was on the agenda for this meeting for which the Swiss government played host. During the day, the GCSP joined the array of commentators for this event, by constituting a specially dedicated newsroom in which we coordinated a lot of the views of our different experts and relayed also interviews given to the local and international press. We've also produced a series of video commentaries virtually live to offer on-the-moment comment, especially following the two press conferences that the leaders held separately in the evening of June 16, before they returned to their respective countries. So, today's podcast is a little bit because we've decided to rebroadcast some of these views to give you of course, what our experts see as the important takeaways from the Summit.

"GCSP & Swiss Security Policy: Building Expertise, Confidence and Communities" is episode 15 in the 2021 GCSP Podcast Series. Col Christian Bühlmann interviews Ambassador Teddy Winkler. To mark the 35th anniversary of the GCSPs flagship course – founded as SIPOLEX, later the International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC), and now the Leadership in International Security Course (LISC) - we spoke with Ambassador Theodore Winkler, the GCSP's first Director, whose role was crucial in founding the course. Ambassador Winkler shared his insights on the origins of the course, in the wake of the 1985 Geneva Summit, its role in contributing to Swiss Foreign policy, as well as expectations for the upcoming summit between Presidents Biden and Putin.

International Geneva and the Biden-Putin Summit is episode 14 in this GCSP podcast series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Ms Alexandra Matas, Head of Effective Governance at the GCSP. Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow in the Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject matter experts to discuss issues of peace, security and international cooperation. Thanks for tuning in. Early last week, it was confirmed that the presidents of the United States and of the Russian Federation Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin will hold their first summit meeting since Biden's inauguration here in Geneva on June 16. This has been hailed in Switzerland as a new occasion for Geneva to play an important role in US-Russian relations, as it often has in the past. The current state of tension between the two powers and the many issues of global scale, which they need to discuss, especially on arms control and counter proliferation, also mean that the Geneva Summit will be closely watched by international observers. It is also worth recalling that the 1985 Summit held also in Geneva between Mikael Gorbachev for the USSR and Ronald Reagan for the United States, served as another epiphany for Swiss diplomacy, and was the origins of the launch of the International Training Course around which the GCSP itself would be formed a decade later. Our podcast will discuss this in a forthcoming edition. To discuss the importance of this forthcoming summit. I'm joined today by Ms Alexandra Matas, the Head of the Effective Governance cluster at the GCSP. Alexandra Matas, who is originally Russian, trained in both Public Relations and International Affairs at the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sports and Tourism and at the Geneva Graduawte Institute of International and Development Studies, and she joined the GCSP staff full time in 2011. She has coordinated the activities of the programmes on Security and Law and WMD and disarmament respectively. She's been a short course coordinator, and more recently, the course director in Effective Governance in either English or French language courses for state officials from different countries. She also designs dialogue events in Geneva and internationally on the topic of European Security, OSCE conflict prevention mechanisms, and post war reconstruction in Syria. Her research interests include the European security architecture, Russia and the post-Soviet states. She joins us in the midst of a busy agenda this week. So we're very fortunate to have her as a guest. Welcome to the podcast, Alexandra.

"Governance and international influence of Africa" is episode 13 in this GCSP podcast series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Dr Delidji Eric Degila Senior Researcher, Global Migration Centre; Visiting Lecturer, International Relations/Political Science; Research Associate, Centre on Conflict, Development And Peacebuilding Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow in the GCSP Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject matter experts on issues of peace, security, and international cooperation. Thanks for tuning in. For observers of international relations and development, Africa is never out of the news. The recent past has been rich with more developments from several presidential elections to the offensive of jihadist fighters reaching Mozambique, Ethiopia's dispute with neighbouring countries or on the Nile basin water management, are among many issues affecting human security. I'm joined today by Dr Delidji Eric Degila who has been one of the experts on Africa addressing the Leadership and International Security Course this year at the GCSP. Dr Degila is with the Geneva Graduate Institute of International Relations and Development, where he's a visiting lecturer in the Department of International Relations and Political Science, a senior researcher with the Global Migration Center, and a research associate with the Center on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding. He focuses his work on state building, on armed conflicts, religion and politics, migration, foreign policies and international organisations and on global health and development. His academic career spans both Africa as an associate professor at the École Nationale d'Administration et de Magistrature du Benin, but also here in Geneva, also in France, in Morocco, in Mexico, and also two distinguished universities in Japan, Waseda and Sophia. He also advised several international organisations including the African Union. Welcome to the podcast Dr Degila and thank you for joining us today.

"Weapons negotiations in the midst of global conflict" is episode 12 in this GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Mr Marc Finaud, Head of Arms Proliferation at the GCSP and former French diplomat. Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow with the GCSP’s Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject- matter experts to explain issues of peace, security, and international cooperation. Thanks for tuning in. Current tensions and flashpoints across the globe remind us not only that escalations into armed confrontations are possible, they also feed the technological development of weapons. And the recent years have also shown that negotiations and efforts at arms control can stall or even suffer setbacks, yet the crises are also the reason that they need to be kept going or to resume. To discuss the situation, I'm joined this week by Marc Finaud. Marc Finaud is the Head of Arms Proliferation activities on the staff of the GCSP. He is a former French diplomat, who was seconded to the GCSP from 2004 to 2013. Mr Marc Finaud joined the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs back in 1977. And along with postings in Leningrad, as was then, Warsaw, Tel Aviv and Sydney, much of his career was connected to the Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and also the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, as well as to the French delegation to the United Nations. As well as a diplomat and practitioner Marc Finaud was a lecturer on arms control and disarmament for a postgraduate course at Marne-la-Vallée University. And along with frequent media appearances, he is a very prolific author of numerous articles chapters of books on arms control and disarmament, as well as on the Middle East and International Humanitarian Law. In addition, from August 2013 to May 2015, Marc Finaud was a senior resident fellow at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). Throughout this year, Marc Finaud is leading the July and November courses on Building Arms control capacities in the Middle East and North Africa region, and two in April and December on building capacities for effective implementation of the Arms Trade Treaty. So, you see, we have here a very knowledgeable person on the issues of arms control. So, thank you very much for taking time to join us. And welcome to the podcast Marc.

"A Yazidi woman's survival story" is episode 11 in the new GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Ms Adiba Qasim, Yazidi genocide survivor, asylum seeker and Young Leader in Foreign and Security Policy at the GCSP. Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow in the GCSP Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject matter experts to explain issues of peace, security and international cooperation. Thank you, listeners, for tuning in. A few weeks from now, we'll be seeing an anniversary of an event that stunned the Middle East and the wider world, when jihadist fighters of ISIS overran Mosul and much of northern Iraq upending the lives of millions among which the Yazidi people living around Mount Sinjar this event began the odyssey of the guest. I'm very pleased to welcome on this week's podcast Ms Adiba Qasim. Adiba Qasim is one of the Global Fellowship Initiative’s “Young Leaders in Foreign and Security Policy”. Born into a Yazidi family of the Sinjar district in northern Iraq, she was about to begin her university studies in Mosul in 2014 when ISIS captured the area, forcing her to flee alongside members of her family. Undaunted by her displacement, she then became a freelance journalist as well as assistant to foreign media covering the Kurdish, Iraq government and coalition forces counter-offensive that resulted in the retrieval of Mosul in 2016 and 2017. She also worked with the Yazidi survivors who were held in captivity by Islamic state, as well as forcefully recruited child soldiers of ISIS. She is an asylum seeker in Switzerland she has been sponsored and arrived at the GCSP in the autumn of 2018. She has since enrolled at the University of Geneva and continues to testify on behalf of her community. She has been profiled by both Swiss television and print media, most recently the Tribune de Genève. Adiba Qasim’s story and accomplishments have mightily impressed us all at the GCSP. And it is the further this that I'm very pleased to speak with you this week. So welcome again, Adiba, welcome to the podcast.

European approaches to internatiolnal security and defence is episode 10 in the new GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Colonel Markus Schneider of Germany and Senior Defence Advisor to the GCSP, Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet, Associate Fellow with the GCSP Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject matter experts to explain issues of peace, security, and international cooperation. Thanks for tuning in. This coming week, May 9 is marked as Europe Day, 71st anniversary of the presentation by French Foreign Minister and “Father of Europe”, Robert Schuman of the draft Schuman Plan, which sealed post-war European reconciliation, reconstruction, and integration. In 76 years since the end of the Second World War, Europe has evolved to become a more peaceful and secure region and aspires also to provide more security for itself and its partners. To discuss this, I'm pleased to be joined today by Colonel Markus Schneider. Colonel Schneider is currently the Senior Defence Advisor to the GCSP, where he was seconded by the German Armed Forces the Bundeswehr in June 2020. Colonel Schneider is a graduate of the German Armed Forces, Command and Staff College in Hamburg, and comes to us after completing his latest command of the Logistics Department of the Rapid Forces Division in Stadenhoff. He's exercised an impressive number of command positions in operations abroad as well, in Kosovo, in Iraq, in representation at NATO, the EU and also in Israel, where he attended the National Staff College. And of course, as an instructor at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Hamburg, the Bundeswehr University in Munich, and , I believe all of this has been quite a fitting preparation for you for your tasks now at the GCSP. So, it's a real pleasure to have you for your insights here today. Welcome to the podcast.

Security of the mind is episode 7 in the new GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Dr Hani Dabbagh, Digital Strategist. Dr Paul Vallet: I'm joined by Dr Hani Dabbagh. But to Hani Dabbagh, was an Executive in Residence at the GCSP in 2019 and is now an Alumnus Fellow is a digital strategist. After his PhD in information engineering and electronics, he began a lengthy career with Hewlett Packard rising from system engineer to digital business development manager. He then became an independent consultant and senior advisor to companies. As an early adopter of web 2.0 for marketing campaigns, he has focused his attention on the impact of disruptive digital technology on customer behaviour, and how to harness it for business benefit. This comes with an increased attention to what he calls “Cyber security of the mind" Dr Hani Dabbagh: Thanks very much for the invitation. Dr Paul Vallet: Well, to begin our conversation, my first question to you is what is the state of cyber security of the mind today for individuals, cooperation’s, or organisations? Do you think the basic problem have been given solutions? Or are you concerned with a newer generation of issues? Dr Hani Dabbagh: Thanks Paul. I mean, first of all, I think there is a serious security breach of our minds that I don't believe has really been fully grasped by the population, I use that term a little bit tongue in cheek, I like to use the term cyber security because it catches the attention of so many today. But I'm not really talking about cyber security of systems, of IT systems, I really am talking about a security breach of our minds. It's really a breach that's hiding in plain sight. And I think it has serious, far reaching consequences to our democracy, and to our society as a whole. So, I don't really believe that this is really fully under control today. The whole things really started around 2007, when there was a kind of coming together, alignment of the of the planets, as it were, with the introduction of the iPhone, Android, Kindle, Twitter, Facebook started opening up. And in those days, we went from the dial up connection to the “always connected”. And then for people a lot younger than me, this might sound a little bit strange. But there was a time when we were not always connected, we actually had to have a modem and plug it in the wall like we hear that noise connecting us to the internet. This we take for granted today. But we were not always connected. Once we're always connected, it then becomes very easily, always trackable. And once we were always trackable, then we're always profiled. And we really then go from one stage to the next to become predictive, predictable, we are able to predict, very accurately when you will change back, you will able to predict when you will stop your subscription, it's actually predictable. And Amazon can ship your product before you even order it. And from there, we became manipulable. All that really has come from that large amounts of data collection that has been going on, and we get raw data. And in get out of that, deduce from that really a lot of behavioural knowledge and inferences about us is what we sometimes call the attention economy. Or I like to call it the “no free lunch economy”, whereby we're getting these so called free products free for us to use but come at a very big cost and what I call a kind of a Faustian deal, where we're selling our souls for something that has a huge cost to us. And whereas a lot of people today are aware of micro targeting of advertising advertisements, people are aware that it was nice to have an ad of a product that I enjoy or will enjoy.

Managing critical incidents in the cyber domain is episode 6 in the new GCSP Podcast Series. Dr Paul Vallet interviews Ms Sarah Backman, Cyber Security Consultant with Secana. Dr Paul Vallet: Welcome to the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, weekly podcast. I'm your host, Dr Paul Vallet Associate Fellow with the GCSP’s Global Fellowship Initiative. For the next few weeks, I'm talking with subject matter experts to explain issues regarding peace, security, and international cooperation. Thank you for tuning in. For several years, even in this socially distance period and in a virtual format now, the GCSP has hosted a fascinating recurrent competition, the Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge in partnership with The Atlantic Council at which competing young teams of various institutions and universities are tasked with responding to an ongoing scenario of a security crises originating from a breach in cyber security. It's this time of the year and to discuss such competitions, their challenges and perhaps the useful lessons that come out of the competing teams and their talents, we're joined today on the podcast by Ms Sarah Backman. Ms Backman is a doctoral candidate in International Relations at Stockholm University, focusing her research on cyber crisis management. As a practitioner in the field, she's also consultant in strategic security risk and crisis management for Secana in Stockholm, as well as lecturing to the Swedish Defense University and offering several publications on cyber crisis management, she has acted as a judge for four editions of the Cyber 9/12 and is returning this year. So welcome to the podcast, Sarah, and thank you very much. Ms Sarah Backman: Thank you so much, Paul. Dr Paul Vallet: So, my first question to you is perhaps a little bit personal, looking at your background, and so on. But I was wondering when and how did you develop an interest in cyber security crisis management, and in particular, in participating in simulation exercises, and perhaps you can tell me whether there are also similar types of exercises to nine, Cyber 9/12 that you know, of, that you participate in for the industry or in the academic setting? Ms Sarah Backman: Yeah, so, it was back in 2014, I think early 2014. And it was really quite random. But I was looking for an internship and then I got an internship at a cyber security firm, a very small one. And that was really lucky for me because I got to work with the CEO of that firm, which is one of Sweden's most prominent cyber security experts. And pretty quickly, I realised, you know, I have a background in security studies and political science. And pretty soon I realised that this field of cyber security is not all about the technical stuff. But there are a lot to do when it comes to the perspectives from a security studies political science perspective too. And then I continued to study security studies and crisis management. Meanwhile, I worked as a consultant. So that is basically what I've been doing since then. So, I have my PhD project and I also work with large scale cyber crisis management exercises as a consultant. And, for me, I just think that based on what I've seen, but also based on research, we know how much value exercises can have, in the absence of real experience of crisis. And that, especially if you have simulation exercises, people actually do feel and act a lot like it would be a real crisis. And research tells us that when you experience a situation, a real crisis, or situations similar to real crisis, that creates sort of mental slides or a mental library that you can access in a real crisis, and it really helps responders. So, yeah, I just love to combine, working with something that I really believe in, which is exercises. And also combining that with the academic part of it.

Krise des stationären Handels und die drohende Verödung der Innenstädte: GCSP-Vorstand Harald Ortner spricht mit "Unter Nachbarn" über Versäumnisse und Lösungsansätze und wirft einen Blick auf die Innenstadt der Zukunft.

Destruction or Theft? Between 2014 and 2017, the Islamic State group occupied territory in Iraq. At it's height it controlled almost a third of the country and over 4,500 historical sites. Alongside the dramatic pictures of the destruction of artefacts and irreplaceable ancient sites like Nimrud, others have claimed that this destruction was largely carried out to conceal extensive looting of valuable artefacts. Presenters: Laura Adal and Jack Meegan-Vickers Guests: https://thesoufancenter.org/team/colin-p-clarke/ (Colin P. Clarke), Senior Research Fellow at The Soufan Center and Assistant Teaching Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.gcsp.ch/Christina-Schori-Liang (Christina Schori Liang), Head of Terrorism and PVE at GCSP. https://twitter.com/anthropaulicy?lang=en (Katie A. Paul), Co-Director of the http://atharproject.org/ (ATHAR Project)