Current Activities
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.
Press release for Side Event 2025
Our Munich Peace Meeting 2025
The 7th Munich Peace Meeting (MPM), initiated and organized by MSKv, took place on September 29 and October 21, 2025. Participants from the fields of peace studies, the peace movement, and peace work exchanged views with Dr. Benedikt Franke and other representatives of the MSC on current security and peace policy challenges.
Concrete proposals for the 2026 Security Conference were jointly developed. We are very curious to see what activities the MSC will derive from this.
A short report on the Munich Peace Meeting 2025 can be found here: MPM 2025
Announcement of lecture during the Peace Weeks: “Danger of war for the EU and Germany?”
Announcement: Lecture during the Munich Peace Weeks
Where: EineWeltHaus, Room 211/212
When: Monday, November 17, 2025, 7:00 PM
Who: Erwin Schelbert, Project Group “Changing the Munich Security Conference” e.V.
Topic: “Danger of war for the EU and Germany?”
All just a threat lie or dangerous escalation by Russia?
Are more armaments and new conscription therefore unavoidable?
Three and a half years of war in Ukraine and Russia with increased arms deliveries by the USA and EU countries, especially Germany, military maneuvers by NATO and Russia, drone landings in Poland and Lithuania, discussion about stationing troops in Ukraine from NATO countries up to threats of the use of nuclear weapons, massive armaments of the EU (“Rearm Europe”), gigantic militarization in Germany (“Fit for war”, “Whatever it takes”), stationing of new medium-range missiles and planning the reintroduction of conscription – on which level of the conflict escalation spiral (Friedrich Glasl) are we already, that there is actually a danger of war and therefore shelters must be built and food supplies should be created (“Prepper”, Green Book)? And who is actually threatening whom here? Is there still a chance to reach a peace order in Europe and what would have to be undertaken by the Nobel Peace Prize winner EU (2012) and by Germany?
These and further questions will be clarified and discussed on the basis of the realistic facts, whereby it is also demanded that the Munich Security Conference, if it is really about peace in the world, provides a discussion forum for this, on which different voices from East and West can also be heard.
You can find the flyer for the event here
