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1. Apply for the 2019 GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security

For the fifth year in a row, the GCSP and its Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme awarded the 10,000 CHF ($10,200) GCSP Prize for Innovation in Global Security. This prize recognises deserving individuals or organisations that have taken an innovative approach to addressing international security challenges. This year, 181 projects applied. Stay tuned for next year’s call for applications.

2. Key skills for the five main diplomatic functions

Diplomats represent their governments by fulfilling several professional tasks that are best performed if they possess or are trained to develop key sets of skills corresponding to the five recognised functions of diplomats. Some of these include integrity, professionalism, loyalty, flexibility, patriotism, cross-cultural communication and analytical skills. Which skills do you have?

3. Acronyms/abbreviations in international and human security

You will find over 20,000 acronyms and abbreviations in this document listed in alphabetical order in both French and English compiled by our expert Marc Finaud. Download the full document here.

4. The privatisation of space: When things go wrong

Professor Nayef Al-Rodhan, Head of the Geopolitics and Global Futures Programme, wrote a piece in 2015 on Space X’s Falcon 9 rocket exploding while carrying an unmanned Dragon capsule destined for the International Space Station (ISS). Take a look and see how the issues that incident raised can still be applied today.

5. 5 things you should know about cyber security

Cyber security will be needed as long as we live in a digital society.  Hackers have been targeting critical infrastructure, technological devices, power grids, multinational companies and even water purification systems for years. We need to be prepared for the fact that they are not going away, and that their malicious activities will inevitably increase.