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This volume synthesizes the work accomplished at the 5th International Security Forum (ISF) in Zurich from 14 to 16 October 2002. It presents a thematic overview of 150 academic presentations distributed over 6 workshop tracks, 30 workshops, 15 side-bar presentations, and 3 plenary sessions. The book contains a timely overview of 21st century international security topics and challenges. Special emphasis is placed on the impact of new information and communications technologies and knowledge management in the conduct of security and defense policy, and on a wide range of issues in the field of security sector reform and the democratic and parliamentary control of armed forces. The contributions also offer a fresh perspective on traditional regional and human security issues in the light of 11 September 2001, notably asymmetric war, Islam, gender, small arms, Russia, and Europe, including NATO, ESDP, and peace support operations. The 5th ISF was organized by the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research at the ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) in Zurich in cooperation with the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces, and the Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva.

This book summarises the workshops and presentations held during the 4th International Security Forum (ISF) in Geneva from 15 to 17 November 2000. It presents an overview of the themes and projects discussed during the conference. The 4th International Security Forum was organised by the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GSCP). It was the intention with this 4th ISF to create a platform for discussion and an exchange of ideas on academic, humanitarian, military and other aspects of security issues. During the 4th International Security Forum, a wide range of topics were discussed within four tracks: I. European Security Policy; II. Humanitarian Dimension; III. Security, Arms Control and Civil Society; and IV. Information Technology.

This volumes provides arguments and solutions for advanced distributed learning for a growing security community. Particular attention is given to multinational collaboration in the use of learning technologies in the framework of the NATO Partnership for Peace program, the role of technical standards in ensuring interoperability among separate learning technology applications, and the social impact of learning technologies on communities. Individual articles analyze the challenges of providing information security of distance learning, the generation and integration of informal knowledge, and ADL related challenges of plagiarism, cheating and academic dishonesty.