MSC Side Event – Unsere Vision ist eine Münchner Konferenz für Friedenspolitik – Our Vision is a Munich Conference for Peace Policy

MSKv Side Event 2026 – Rejected by the MSC.

Since 2015, we have been proposing side events as a space for reflection and learning for the international participants of the MSC. The result of the Munich Peace Meeting, which we organised in October 2025 and in which the MSC management actively participated, was ultimately not approved by the MSC. Therefore, our active participation this year is limited to the presence of our MSKv observers, who are invited to attend all events and happenings at the international venue Hotel Bayerischer Hof throughout the weekend.

MSKv-developed topic for 2026, rejected by MSC:
From Cyberwar to Cyberpeace – Designing AI fairly and reliably. Transforming new technologies into value-oriented instruments for peace, solidarity and a just world order.

Given today’s complexity and disintegration, mainstream diplomacy and politics demonstrate a worrying inability to overcome binary concepts such as “right/wrong”, “win/lose”, “West/East”, “North/South”, thereby reproducing (structural) violence. AI adds another layer of complexity, raises fundamental questions of humanity and is mostly regarded as a disruptive technology that is systemically geared towards the “digital divide” and limited to military, authoritarian technology. However, the UN, civil society, religions and ethical think tanks are looking for control mechanisms and AI parameters to address humanitarian challenges, conflicts and sustainable human security. This event invites the international MSC participants to use their human intelligence and sharpen their judgement. The experts of the side event will provide suggestions and promote reflection on what could be done to develop AI into an instrument for peace, justice and solidarity. The MSC participants will work in a careful didactic framework in which they will meet prominent international speakers with their background in diplomacy, politics, security or technology to advocate for standards and ethical guidelines for AI to protect a liberal, democratic international order.

Side Event 2025 (completed)

Press release for Side Event 2025

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MSKv Side Event 2025 – Peace Experts as a Counterpoint at the MSC

Since 2015, we have been proposing side events as a space for reflection and learning for the international participants of the MSC. Our cooperation partners were or are in particular: forumZFD, APTE.

Our theme for 2025 is:

“On the Way to a Century of Tolerance: Don’t Shoot!
Nonviolent De-escalation and Peace Practice of the Global South”

We know that courageous civil society campaigns, especially in the Global South, have an impact even in mostly very complex situations of systematic violence, towards the emergence of resilient communities that renounce violence. The MSC participants from international diplomacy, politics, business and military, institutes and think tanks, as well as civil society are invited to engage with the successful practice of our guests and to learn how conflict resolution and de-escalation can be tested in their area of responsibility through empathy, healing and active nonviolence, and how humane, human security succeeds.

The following resource persons have accepted our invitation and will speak at the MSC:

Marie-Noelle KOYARA, Bangui, Minister of Defense (2022), Dialogue with the terrorist groups in the Central African Republic
Archbishop Martin KIVUVA, Mombasa, Chairman (2024) Kenyan Conference of Catholic Bishops, Prevention of ethnic-political street violence after the dismissal of the President
Dr. Sylvain KOFFI, Abidjan/Ivory Coast, international consultant in social and peace programs, founding member of the Pan-African Union of Peace Professionals, Secretary General of the African network and the political campaign “Rethinking African Security” (RAS).

Press release by MSKv and Sicherheit neu denken on the Side Event at the MSC 2025

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MSKv Side Events at the MSC

Since 2015, we have been proposing Side Events as a space for reflection and learning for the international participants of the MSC from diplomacy, politics, business, military, institutions and think tanks, as well as civil society. Our cooperation partners have been, and are, notably: forumZFD, APTE

Our topics challenge the narrow security concept of the MSC, which is based on (militarized) violence and political (superior) power. With their expertise and testimony from successful practices of active non-violence, especially from the Global South, the invited actors demonstrate how a resilient society can be built even from complex (historical) situations of violence, one that renounces violence. Based on the logic of peace, our Side Events show concrete ways to transform conflicts and tensions into greater social cohesion and mechanisms of “human security.” Our Side Events demand engagement with any legitimately justified logic of war.

2016: How can the Syrian war be ended? Civil society between the fronts, Cooperation partner: forumZFD
2017: “Nonviolent Peaceforce“, Cooperation partner: forumZFD
2020: “Living Peace: Religion and Security. The Practice of the Interreligious Platform in the Central African Republic.” Report on the Side Event here
2023: “Peace is Public – Human Security Beyond State and Military Doctrine: Interactive Learning of Successful Practice in Africa”, Humanity First Network: Rethinking Security.
2025: “Towards a Century of Tolerance”

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