CIVIL SOCIETY DISCUSSES HUMAN SECURITY STRATEGY FOR KOSOVO

ATRC in cooperation with the Center for Study of Global Governance at London School of Economics (LSE) organized a brainstorming meeting with civil society activists and intellectuals in Kosovo on March 4 in order to develop a human security strategy with members of human security study group.

This group reports to Havier Solana, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, in order to make sure the new EU mission in Kosovo together with KFOR gives priority to human security and deals with status issues in terms of their implications for human security. 

The meeting outlined a human security strategy for Kosovo, and served to plan ways of implementing such a strategy through monitoring EU mission, organizing consultations between civil society in Kosovo and EU representatives, lobbying in Brussels and broader to European governments and civil society.

The human security study group consists of a number of leading practitioners, including former NATO commander in Kosovo General Klaus Reinhardt, former Spanish defense secretary Narcis Serra, the head of the SPD faction in the German parliament Gert Weisskirchen, as well as leading academics in areas such as international law, defense studies and human rights.