Munich Security Conference 2012
The 48th Munich Security Conference will be held from February 3 to 5, 2012 and will again bring together senior figures from around the world to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
The Munich Security Conference has a long tradition and, over the past decades, has become a not-to-be-missed event in the field of worldwide security policy. Founded in 1962 as the Wehrkunde Conference by the German publisher Ewald von Kleist, the Conference’s themes have developed in line with the security challenges. While at the beginning the security threats in the Euro-Atlantic area were the central themes discussed by the Cabinet Ministers, members of parliament, high-ranking representatives of the armed forces, scientists and representatives of the media who met in Munich, later Conferences extended their scope to include new issues and other regions. From 1999 onwards, the Conference hosted by Horst Teltschik increasingly involved Central and Eastern European and Asian countries, and business representatives were invited to take part. Since 2008 Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger has chaired the Munich Security Conference, which under his leadership will focus in particular on future security challenges in line with the concept of “networked security”. With the Munich Young Leaders initiative the Conference also involves the future security community in the debate.
The Munich Security Conference will continue to address the main security issues of our time. We will debate and analyze the main security challenges, while at the same time constantly looking ahead so as to take up future issues at an early stage. This includes broadening the range of themes covered, in line with the concept of networked security.
Further information about the 48th Munich Security Conference and other special activities will be available at www.securityconference.de.
