Black Sea Security and Development

Networking for the Black Sea Region Stabilization and Integration

     Between May 2004 and May 1 2005 IRIS International Security and Democratization Program implemented the “Networking for the Black Sea Region Stabilization and Integration” program. The proposed program built on the achievements of GMFUS and IRIS’ own efforts in the Black Sea region. The program was aimed at assisting with developing and launching an overall policy strategy for integrating the Black Sea countries into the Euro-Atlantic mainstream.

IRIS and its partners focused in several problem areas of crucial importance to the Black Sea countries: priorities in civic sector in assisting democratization, potential of institutions for democratic reforms, redefining civic-institutional relations and energizing regional cooperation for the purposes of development and Euro-Atlantic cooperation. IRIS also addressed these problem areas by generating policy analyses and recommendations based on the experience gained through the institute’s work in the Bulgaria and throughout the Balkans.

Program goals’ implementation were pursued through the establishment of an interactive network of policy institutes in the region, capable of adequately addressing immediate and upcoming policy concerns, thus multiplying program effects and setting mechanisms for common policy action.

The program was implemented in close cooperation with the Romanian Academic Society (SAR) in Bucharest, Romania and the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives (IDIS-Viitorul) in Chisinau, Moldova and was supported by the German Marshall Fund of the United States.

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