Description
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the world's largest regional security organisation, fostering comprehensive and co-operative security among 56 States from Vancouver to Vladivostok.
As part of its comprehensive approach to security, the OSCE is concerned with economic and environmental matters, recognizing that co-operation in these areas can contribute to peace, prosperity and stability.
The OSCE promotes a continuous dialogue through regular meetings of its permanent bodies in Vienna such as the Permanent Council, the Economic and Environmental Sub-Committee. Economic and Environmental Officers operate on the ground in the OSCE Field Presences in South-Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia.
Through its work, OSCE offers a forum for political negotiations and decision-making in the fields of early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.
Information
- Author(s)
- Ronald A. Kingham
- Publisher
- Institute for Environmental Security
- Place published
- The Hague
- Date / journal vol no.
- 2006
- Pages
- 4
