Threats without borders: Are we apt to cope with the challenges?
The main objective of the event was to bring together experts from governments, armed forces, academia and the private sector to discuss international security issues of common interest for the partners on both sides of the Atlantic, in particular focusing on the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Amongst the panels during the conference the following topics were addressed:
- Climate change and energy crisis: the new battlegrounds revisited
- Basic livelihoods at stake: water and food security
- Covid-19: one for all and all for one? Curbing threats arising from the pandemic
- Cooperation for technological security: artificial intelligence and cyberwar
The Forte de Copacabana International Security Conference is co-organised by the EU Delegation to Brazil, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Brazilian think tank CEBRI.
Keynote speakers at the conference included MD CSDP-CR Pawel Herczynski, as well as the former Brazilian Defence Minister Raul Jungman and German MP Roderich Kiesewetter.
From EU HQ, we also had the valuable participation acting DG ECHO Michael Köhler, Deputy Head of Division Economic Issues and Global Health Console Oronzo, as well as Helen Popp, cyber expert from SECDEFPOL. Further speakers came from international organisations such as the FAO, the World Bank, the Halifax International Security Forum, as well as from Latin American countries (Brazil, Colombia, Mexico) and the EU (DE and F). EU Head of Delegation to Brazil, Ignacio Ybáñez spoke at the Opening and the Closing of the event.
The annual “Forte de Copacabana” International Security Conference is accompanied by a Publication of the Policy Papers (in English and Portuguese) that provides concrete recommendations for security policy action.
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