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Date(s) - Thursday - Apr 10, 2025 - Friday - Apr 11, 2025
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Common Security Conference 2025: Redefining Security for the 21st Century
Common Security – the concept that nations and populations can only feel safe when their counterparts feel safe – emerged during a period of high tension and uncertainty in 1982, as a result of Olof Palme’s Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues. Forty years later, Olof Palmes Internationella Center, the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), and the International Peace Bureau (IPB) released Common Security 2022: For Our Shared Future, modernizing the concept for the 21st century and the modern challenges we are confronted with.
IPB, ITUC and Olof Palmes Internationella Center and partners* hereby introduce the Common Security Conference 2025: Redefining Security for the 21st Century with the goal of revitalizing the vision, philosophy and concept of common security and redefining the paradigm through which we view ‘security’. Moreover, the Conference aims to serve as a forum in which to discuss and expand the concepts from the 2022 report, including viewing common security through regional lenses and developing strategic priorities and goals.
Why Attend?
The global order and balance of power is in the midst of rapid and unpredictable changes, leading to new violent conflicts, realms of contestation, and increasing global tensions. As the post-Cold War era comes to an end and reveals its shortcomings, the new international order has not yet emerged and remains to be defined.
Today, global decision-makers have broken down nuclear arms regulation and once again resorting to power politics and strategic competition with heavy investments in the military industry at enormous social and environmental cost. We strongly believe that civil society, the working class, and marginalized groups must have a say in what the new order looks like. The concept of Common Security, developed during the 1980s Cold War confrontation and revitalized in the 21st century, can serve as an important tool to define from civil society what a new order should look like.
The online Common Security Conference 2025: Redefining Security for the 21st Century brings together politicians, international officials, trade union leaders, non-governmental organizations, peace activists, and more for critical discussions on concrete steps and strategies for global, regional, national, and local level movements for a more just and peaceful future for us all.
We invite you to be part of the movement for a common security policy for the new age – one that prioritizes human life over war and imperialism, that emphasizes our common humanity over division, and that pushes for global cooperation to resolve disagreements and conflicts.
Save the date and join us online on April 10–11, 2025!
Scheduled time:
- April 10, 15:00–17:00 CET – Pre-Conference Session: What is Common Security?
- Friday, April 11, 10:00–18:30 CET – Common Security Online Conference
It will also be possible to register/attend only specific sessions.