HCSS Centre for Strategic Studies

Security Jam

(02/04/10 – 02/09/10)

A virtual conference featuring online keynote contributions from world leaders and participants like you logging on from around the world. NGOs, civil society, security & defence practitioners, leading political and military figures, think tanks, academics and journalists interacted online, from anywhere in the world, to build concrete solutions together.

The results of the Jam include key recommendations and innovative ideas on how to make our world a safer place. They will be presented to the leaderships of the EU and NATO, among others, at an official event in April 2010. This influential report will also be sent to 50,000 people. These decision makers are eager to hear your views at a time when a great deal of strategic thinking is taking place.

Several thousand people around the globe are expected to join our VIPs, who include:

– Ambassador Kai Eide, United Nations Special Representative to Afghanistan
– Admiral Mark Fitzgerald, Commander JFC Naples and U.S. Naval Forces, Europe
– Josette Sheeran, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
– Anne-Marie Slaughter, Director for Policy Planning, US State Department
– General Hakan Syrén, Chairman, European Union Military Committee
– Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs Minister of Sweden
– Professor Paul Collier, Oxford University author of The Bottom Billion
– General Henry Anyidoho Special Representative for the AU-UN Hybrid operation in
Darfur
– Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Former Secretary General of NATO