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This volume summarises the academic work accomplished at the 6th International Security Forum (ISF), convened by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces from 4 to 6 October 2004 at the Montreux Convention Centre, Switzerland. It presents a thematic overview of 150 presentations given at the 6th ISF, either as full-length keynote speeches in the two plenary sessions or in the form of summaries of all speeches given in the six topic sessions and the 24 workshops.
The topics discussed respond to the complex new challenges of the post Cold War world with an integrated, multilateral and interdisciplinary approach. The experts contributing to the success of the ISF covered, among other issues, the need for UN Reform, EU and NATO enlargement, Human Security and International Humanitarian Law, the global War on Terror, the role of Private Military Companies, Combating Violence against Women and Children and Security Sector Governance.

The Editors: Ambassador Dr. Theodor H. Winkler is Director of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF).
Anja H. Ebnöther is Assistant Director and Head of Special Programmes at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces.
Major Ernst M. Felberbauer works at the Bureau for Security Policy at the Austrian Ministry of Defence and was the ISF-Coordinator.