About Us

As the world becomes more interdependent and unequal, there is a crucial need for cross-regional dialogues to foster new thinking and policy solutions to contentious security challenges.

Through the Global Consortium on Security Transformation (GCST) we aim to encourage existing south-south and south-north security and develop debates in order to promote a change of the existing understanding of security as well as open spaces for new voices. Our dialogue network takes the form of a partnership among six partner institutions located in different regions of the world.

The GCST will build upon and forge relationships between regional networks, linking researchers and practitioners, which have emerged in the developing world. It differs from existing networks by focusing on south-south as well as south-north links; by sharing research findings and policy lessons among regional networks; by promoting cross-regional research; by fostering evidence-based policy dialogue; and by reaching out to a broad range of policy constituencies not normally considered in security analysis and policy-making.

Main Goals/Objectives

We expect to become a point of reference where high-level policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and, more importantly, representatives from civil society are able to discuss new ways to confront security issues worldwide. This will be done by:

Encouraging the inclusion of new voices, from traditionally excluded sectors, within policy discussions and analysis;
Making sure existing initiatives, studies and practical experiences on conflict prevention and security issues become more visible for a wider community;
Providing new perspectives concerning security dilemmas and the expanding concept of security, including a bottom-up strategy involving social actors and citizens' approach and concerns on policy processes and analyses;
Promoting policy dialogues and the exchange of knowledge and experience across regions;
Identifying and responding to new security tendencies.

Governing Structure

The GCST is organized into three interlocking layers: a Secretariat, a Steering Committee and Working Groups (see website).

Secretariat: A single lead institution coordinates the Global Consortium. This institution will have the day-to-day responsibilities for coordinating the Consortium and administering the agreed upon program of work and activities. The Secretariat is based in the Latin American Faculty of Social Science (FLACSO-Chile) and will lead the coordination of the Consortium with institutional backup from IDS.

General Director: Lucia Dammert (lucia@flacso.cl)

Executive Management: Alejandra Lunecke (alunecke@flacso.cl) and Rodrigo Álvarez (rodrigo.alvarez@flacso.cl)

Assistant: Ney Souza Fernandes (ney.fernandes@flacso.cl)

Steering Committee: The Steering Committee is structured to provide an overarching framework for the operation of the Consortium, to foster partnership and to enable the exchange of views on all matters regarding the Consortium and its work. The Committee is comprised of one representative from each of the original partner institutions:

IDS: Robin Luckham (robin.luckham@zen.co.uk)

ASSN: Eboe Hutchufl (eboehutchf@aol.com)

ARI: Bassma Kodmani (bkodmani@yahoo.com)

ISDS: Carolina Hernández (carolghernandez@gmail.com)

FLACSO-Chile: Lucía Dammert (lucia@flacso.cl)

SADSEM: Anthoni Van Nieuwkerk (Anthoni.VanNieuwkerk@wits.ac.za)

Guidelines

SECRETARIAT:
FACULTAD LATINOAMERICANA DE CIENCIAS SOCIALES (FLACSO- CHILE)
Av. Dag Hammarskjold 3269, Vitacura, Santiago de Chile.
Phones : (56 2) 2900200 - (56 2) 2900212
Email: securitytransformation@flacso.cl