New Issues in Security Course (NISC) 2025

The 25th edition of the New Issues in Security Course focuses on new and re-emerging security challenges arising from a rapidly changing global environment. The course examines the evolution of security (with a special focus on human security), the interlinkages among security-related issues, and the value of adopting a more forward-looking approach to security. It will enable you to better understand, not only today’s global security landscape, but emerging dynamics in order to be able to proactively respond to new challenges and opportunities as they arise, and thus shape a better future. 

The 25th NISC will provide you with a deeper understanding of contemporary threats that will prepare and empower you to have greater strategic impact in all domains. This eight-week course also offers you a unique opportunity to interact with a diverse group of participants and experts from a wide range of sectors (government, international organisations, civil society, the private sector and academia)

Learning objectives 

This course offers you a unique opportunity to: 

• Strengthen your understanding of the rapidly changing global security environment
• Acquire tools to leverage your professional capacity 
• Enhance your ability to respond to new challenges in order to shape a better future
• Network with a wide community of security policy professionals 

Modules

Module I: New and Re-emerging Security Challenges - Online: 5 – 30 May 2025 

• The Changing Face of Security  
• Human Security: the Environment, Health and Movement of People 
• Security Implications of Emerging Technologies  
• Terrorism and Organised Crime  

Module II: Managing Current and Future Security Issues - In person in Geneva: 2 – 27 June 2025 

• Law, Economy, and Security 
• Managing Conflict and Sustaining Peace 
• Global and Regional Governance  
• New Issues in Security: Connecting the Dots 

Open to mid-career professionals working in: 

• national ministries,
• international organisations,
• non-governmental organisations and, 
• civil society organisations. 

Candidates must have had exposure to peace and security issues. Serving officers must have completed an advanced military staff course.

The course is offered free of tuition charges for participants as part of Switzerland’s contribution to the Partnership for Peace Programme.

 
Are you a female mid-career professional working in a national ministry, international organization or civil society? Are you a citizen of a Global South country? Do you have proven professional experience in the field of international security? The GCSP’s New Issues in Security Course is offering a scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Mission to the United Nations and Other International Organizations in Geneva, to build your knowledge, skills and network within an inspiring, multidisciplinary and multicultural environment. More information here.