{"id":11938,"date":"2014-11-24T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T11:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/the-ndc-research-division-co-organizes-an-academic-seminar-entitled-au-nato-collaboration-towards-a-strategic-partnership\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:10:19","slug":"the-ndc-research-division-co-organizes-an-academic-seminar-entitled-au-nato-collaboration-towards-a-strategic-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ndc.nato.int\/fr\/the-ndc-research-division-co-organizes-an-academic-seminar-entitled-au-nato-collaboration-towards-a-strategic-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"The NDC Research Division co-organizes an academic seminar entitled: AU-NATO Collaboration – Towards a Strategic Partnership."},"content":{"rendered":"
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African Union-NATO Collaboration: academic seminar entitled &quotAU-NATO Collaboration – Towards a Strategic Partnership&quot.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

On 20 November 2014, the NATO Defense College (NDC) Research Division and Royal Norwegian Embassy \u2013 NATO contact mission to the African Union (AU) – co-organized an academic seminar in Addis Ababa entitled: AU-NATO Collaboration \u2013 Towards a Strategic Partnership. The event, which received mention in the AU Peace and Security Council (PSC), provided a platform for a pan-African community of policy-makers, diplomats and scholars to discuss with NATO officials and experts the recently-signed AU-NATO military-technical agreement, as well as to look ahead to prospects for future collaboration.<\/p>\n

Following the opening remarks by the seminar chairman, Dr. Brooke Smith-Windsor of the NDC Research Division, H.E. Ambassador Andreas Gaarder of Norway welcomed participants to the seminar. Mr. Michael Soula<\/a>, Deputy Director of Operations \u2013 NATO HQ, and H.E. Ambassador Sidibe Fatoumata Kaba<\/a> of the Republic of Guinea, provided the keynote addresses to the diverse audience of over 100 participants. An number of rich panel<\/a> discussions ensured which addressed a broad range of fields holding promise for possible further AU-NATO cooperation including: women, peace and security, structured political dialogue, strategic lift, multinational forces interoperability, exercise planning and training, counter-terrorism, pan-African maritime strategy operationalization, as well as shared lessons learned from peace support operations.<\/p>\n

The main input for the seminar were the findings and recommendations of NDC Research Paper 102, “Resetting” AU-NATO relations: from ad hoc military-technical cooperation to strategic partnership<\/a><\/i>, authored by the AU expert, Dr Mehari Taddele Maru of Ethiopia, a former NDC Research Fellow.<\/p>\n

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