THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE BLACK SEA - REGIONAL COOPERATION FOR ENERGY AND DEFENSE
The Sofia Security Forum in cooperation with The New Strategy Center (Romania) and The Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), (Türkiye), together with the delegations of Bulgaria, Romania and Türkiye to NATO, organized on December 11, 2024 a discussion to present the study "The Strategic Importance of the Black Sea: Regional Cooperation in Energy and Defense".
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Balkans and Black Sea
Security and Defense
NATO
INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND SECURITY: DYNAMICS IN THE EURO-ATLANTIC AND INDO-PACIFIC REGIONS
International Workshop organizes by the Sofia Security Forum and the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)
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Global Challenges
Security and Defense
THE EMERGING SECURITY CONSEQUENCES OF CLIMATE CHANGE: THE NEED FOR NEW POLICIES AND INSTRUMENTS
NATO 2022 STRATEGIC CONCEPT stated that the “Climate change is a defining challenge of our time, with a profound impact on Allied security. It is a crisis and threat multiplier. It can exacerbate conflict, fragility and geopolitical competition. Increasing temperatures cause rising sea levels, wildfires and more frequent and extreme weather events, disrupting our societies, undermining our security and threatening the lives and livelihoods of our citizens. Climate change also affects the way our armed forces operate. Our infrastructure, assets and bases are vulnerable to its effects. Our forces need to operate in more extreme climate conditions and our militaries are more frequently called upon to assist in disaster relief.”
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Global Challenges
NATO
YOUTH CONFERENCE: THE NATO’s ROLE IN ADDRESSING SECURITY CHALLENGES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE ENVIRONMENT
Students from Bulgaria and North Macedonia met in Sofia on 3-5 December 2023 to discuss what risks the two countries are facing and what is NATO's role in dealing with them. During the conference, the young people met and held talks with the Prime Minister of Bulgaria Nikolay Denkov, the Minister of Defense Todor Tagarev, the Chairman of the Defense Committee in the National Assembly Hristo Gadjev, the ambassadors of North Macedonia and Germany, security experts.
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Bulgarian Foreign Policy
Balkans and Black Sea
Leadership and Youth
UKRAINE THROUGH THE EYES OF BULGARIAN JOURNALISTS WHO VISITED THE COUNTRY
Very interesting and emotional meeting-discussion between Bulgarian journalists who covered the war in Ukraine with students. The event was organized by the Sofia Security Forum and the Faculty of "Journalism and Mass Communication" of the Sofia University with the support of the embassies of the USA and Ukraine.
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Global Challenges
Balkans and Black Sea
Security and Defense
Leadership and Youth
WINNING THE PEACE IN UKRAINE
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE The Russian military aggression against Ukraine is the biggest threat to the regional and global peace. It destroyed the security architecture that was the guarantor of the peace and prosperity of the European continent. The continued aggression, the unceasing destruction of civilian infrastructure and the death of the civilian population, the deportation of people including children, the undermining of the global energy and food security make the prospects for peace even more blurred. What are the prospects for peace in Ukraine, how to achieve security in the Black Sea region, what is the role of NATO and the EU, what is the future of the European security architecture and others were the main questions that the participants discussed during the conference.
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Global Challenges
Balkans and Black Sea
Security and Defense
NATO