About the MSP, CSS, and swisspeace
The Mediation Support Project (MSP) was founded in 2005 as a joint venture between the Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace) and the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich). The Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs is the initiator and main partner of MSP. MSP supports mediators and conflict parties in gaining knowledge and skills for effective peace negotiations.
The Center for Security Studies (CSS) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) is a Swiss academic center of competence that specializes in research, training, and information services in the field of international relations and security policy. The CSS also acts as a consultant to various political bodies and the general public. The CSS engages in research projects with a number of Swiss and international partners, focusing on new risks; European and transatlantic security, strategy, and doctrine; state failure and state building; and Swiss foreign and security policy. The CSS runs the International Relations and Security Network and in cooperation with partner institutes manages the Crisis and Risk Network, the Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the Swiss Foreign and Security Policy Network, and the Russian and Eurasian Security Network. The CSS is a member of the Center for Comparative and International Studies, which is a joint initiative between the ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich. Its Web site is www.css.ethz.ch.
The Swiss Peace Foundation (swisspeace) is a practice-oriented peace research institute in the area of conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Founded in 1988 as the Swiss Peace Foundation with the goal of promoting independent peace research in Switzerland, swisspeace today has thirty staff membe