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Issue No. 14, 6 November 2014
DISCOVER
NISC 2014 participants
Application process open for newly designed and updated 'New Issues in Security Course'
Starting on 20 April 2015, GCSP's newly designed and updated 8-week New Issues in Security Course (NISC) will offer a unique opportunity for participants to explore current and unfolding security challenges. Registration has just opened, inviting mid-career professionals working in national ministries as well as international and non-governmental organisations to sign up. Expect two months of intense intellectual effort, debates, skills training and "out-of-the-box" thinking in the heart of international Geneva!
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Raisina Hill, Delhi - � Antoine Tardy
Culture and decision-making in India

GCSP Associate Fellow Ambassador Chitra Narayanan joined us last week to speak to the International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC) about the ways in which culture can impact decision-making, both on the individual and the societal levels. Ms Narayanan focused on the 5000 year history of India and highlighted the importance of the multicultural, multilingual and multi-religious nature of the country and how these play an important role in governance. 

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Swiss Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina H.E. Heinrich Maurer
GCSP holds first Balkan Alumni Conference in Sarajevo
70 international security policy specialists from the Balkan Region gathered in Sarajevo last week for the First GCSP Balkan Alumni Conference, held in connection with the 3rd edition of GCSP's Defence Attach� Orientation Module for Western Balkan Countries and in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Embassy of Switzerland in the country.
 
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WWI Exercise: The British Cabinet meets on 31 July 1914
Last week, GCSP Associate Fellow Ambassador Jean-Marc Boulgaris conducted a role-play session for the International Training Course in Security Policy (ITC). He divided the class up into four groups, each composed of the six key members of the British Cabinet as of 31 July 1914.

The groups were tasked with deciding which path to take to tackle the crisis the last day before WWI became inevitable. The session revealed how strong personalities, given the same information, could have an important impact on the result of a discussion as the conclusions of the four groups were far from identical.


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