Munich Security Conference
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| Motto | Peace through Dialog |
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| Predecessor | Internationale Wehrkundebegegnung / Münchner Wehrkundetagung |
| Formation | 1963 / 2011 |
| Founder | Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin |
| Legal status | Non-profit foundation |
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| Methods | Host conferences |
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Chairman
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Wolfgang Ischinger |
| Website | www |
The Munich Security Conference (MSC; German: Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz) is an annual conference on international security policy and has been taking place since 1963. Former names are Wehrkundetagung and Münchner Konferenz für Sicherheitspolitik. It is the world's largest gathering of its kind.
Over the past four decades the Munich Security Conference has become the most important independent forum for the exchange of views by international security policy decision-makers. Each year it brings together about 350 senior figures from more than 70 countries around the world to engage in an intensive debate on current and future security challenges.
The list of attendees includes Heads of States, Governments and International Organizations, Ministers, Members of Parliament, high-ranking representatives of Armed Forces, Science, Civil society as well as Business and Media.
The conference is held annually in February. The venue is the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany. The 53rd Security Conference will be held from 17 to 19 February 2017.
The conference evolved from the Internationale Wehrkundebegegnung / Münchner Wehrkundetagung, which was founded in 1963 by Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin. The resistance fighter from the Stauffenberg circle advocated to prevent military conflicts such as the Second World War in the future and brought together leaders and experts in security policy for this reason. The first meeting was limited to about 60 participants; among them were Helmut Schmidt and Henry Kissinger. Von Kleist led the meetings until 1997; his successor who led them from 1999 until 2008 was politician and business manager Horst Teltschik (CDU). Since 2009, the conference is headed by the former diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger. Ischinger established the Munich Security Conference gGmbH non-profit foundation in 2011, which he has led since then.
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