Current Activities
Review of the MSC conference observers from MSKv
Our review of the MSC 2025 will take place in the parish hall of the St. Bonifaz parish. Our conference observers, Ralf Becker and Alessia Neuner, will share their impressions and answer your questions. Information about our two conference observers can be found here.
Date: Sun, February 16, 2025, 4:30 PM
Location: Parish Center St. Bonifaz, Parish Hall Karlstr. 34, 80333 Munich
MVV: Subway U2, Königsplatz stop
Please also note our flyer for the event: 
Following at the same location: Prayer for Peace of Religions, 6:30 PM
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
Our association’s conference observation at MSC 2025
Ralf Becker (sicherheitneudenken.de) and Alessia Neuner (Student of Peace and Conflict Research) will be our observers at the MSC this year.
Ralf Becker: Observer once again
As coordinator of the “Rethinking Security” initiative, I want to once again intensively observe as an observer – the atmosphere, the energy, the actors, and their way of moving and interacting within the MSC space. For me, this is the prerequisite and the key to discovering communication opportunities that we can gradually (further) develop, build up, and expand after the MSC. I
approach the MSC with a questioning attitude: How do I perceive myself in this space? What reveals itself to me? What scope for action emerges for shaping a cooperative global domestic policy? Where and how is encounter at eye level possible, where do opportunities arise to let go of the usual dominant stance of Western actors in the “great game” in favor of an encounter between actors from different cultural backgrounds at eye level? Where and how could the effectiveness of civilian security policy become perceptible and tangible? What kind of meeting spaces enable the establishment and expansion of trusting relationships?
Alessia Neuner: New observer
This year, I have the opportunity to participate in the MSC as an observer, marking my first visit to such a prominent political event. I am currently still studying Peace and Conflict Research, and I am therefore eager to see what impressions and questions the conference will leave and raise for me. The program’s focus this time seems to be on defense, world order, human security, sustainability, and technology. It will certainly be exciting to see how these concepts are addressed in the panels and discussion rounds. Which events, problems, and needs will be taken up? Which solutions will be presented? Which perspectives will be highlighted? And which voices might be missing from the large and small stages of the MSC? I also want to try to reflect repeatedly on how I perceive the Security Conference from my perspective as a person read and socialized as female. And above all, I hope for the opportunity to engage in dialogue with other participants to learn about diverse viewpoints on the event.
Our conference observers report – Information see here