February 3, 2022, Tbilisi, Georgia
Conference Venue: Rooms Hotels Tbilisi (Merab Kostava St. 14)
At the Warsaw Summit 2016 the Alliance made it clear that that the security and defence of its member states and the key concept of deterrence is strongly dependent on the individual and collective resilience, to secure vital functioning of state and society, and return to previous state, i.e., the complex ability to absorb shocks and manage crises and emergencies (military, natural and manmade). But it also emphasized the need for a permanent adaptation and improvement, review and analysis of the lessons drawn from the crisis response with the respective implementation of the policy changes in the wide spectrum of state – and societal domains. Although enshrined in the Article 3 of the NATO charter and articulated in the Alliance’s seven baseline requirements that reflect key policy level principles, neither military nor civil preparedness can work without the deep reaching efforts aimed at effective combination of societal cohesion (aspects of culture, tradition, morality and psychology) and institutional (state, non-state) responsiveness.
All this became even more relevant as traditional democracies, their institutions and cooperative frameworks are increasingly under attacks stirred and sponsored by antidemocratic and totalitarian forces. This dangerous tendency, if not properly checked and thwarted, may lead to shaking western unity and even more disastrous consequences, by destroying individual state’s national unity and societal cohesion. Thus, the UGSP-conference objective is to discuss, analyze and conceptualize the principles of resilience, that have been already applied in various policy domains (state, organization and society) and can provide sufficient evidence and explanation for its successive implementation or, in contrary, failure. Conference participants are invited to contribute to the policy relevant and conceptual debate as well as to policy improvements through their insights and research findings.
