CSE Pillar

Cooperative Security Environment (CSE) Pillar is one of RACVIAC domains with the longest tradition.

Arms Control implementation obligations triggered the foundation of the Centre in the year 2000, and even after the transformation into the “Centre for Security Cooperation”, the obligations and demands of the many Arms Control regimes in place continue characterizing and dominating all activities of this Pillar.

From the very beginning RACVIAC has devoted constant efforts to improving and maintaining the standards indispensable for the full implementation of Arms Control agreements, conventions and treaties concluded by the states of the SEE region, such as the Dayton Peace Agreement, the Vienna Document 2011, the Open Skies Treaty, the Treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, Ottawa Convention on Anti – Personnel Mines, Oslo Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).

To accomplish this, the CSE Pillar serves as an international forum for the training of verification and other personnel involved in the implementation process. The Pillar plans and conducts training activities that contribute to a common understanding of the existing agreements to which the countries of the region are signatories. Furthermore, the CSE Pillar provides assistance and information to support the countries in their preparation for possible accession to other Arms Control agreements.