Young Leaders Forum “Building Bridges for the Next Generation”
November 27-29, 2006
Event venue: Riga City Council, Riga, Latvia
From November 27-29, 2006 the Young Leaders Forum will take place in Riga. During the Forum young people in leading positions from various countries and diverse areas of activity will gather for an exchange of opinions and will propose new solutions for global and regional security issues.
The Forum is organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organization (LATO) in liaison with the NATO Summit Latvia Task Force and it is supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and NATO.
Forum participants from NATO member states and partner states will continue working on the Trans-Atlantic security policy issues that were launched this summer: crisis management operations, NATO strategic approach to energy security issues, future NATO partnerships and neighborhood policy, the preparedness of NATO and some countries for eventual enlargement process, harmonized NATO and EU policy with regard to Russia. The discussion groups will be chaired by high level international experts in liaison with the young specialists from NATO.
On November 27 the forum participants will work in five various working groups:
- Challenge in Afghanistan: to introduce stability of democracy?
- NATO and its partners: how to improve partnership?
- Western policy with regard to Russia: the need for harmonized policy.
- NATO future enlargement: who will open the door?
- Energy security: new challenge for NATO?
On November 28 the young leaders shall join an International Conference of Non-governmental Organizations while on November 29 a plenary meeting will take place where group leaders shall present the common conclusions on the respective group working theme.
