The Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) is a South Asian regional think tank, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Established in 1992, it is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organization which encourages research, dialogue, networking and deliberation on a broad range of conventional and non-conventional sources of conflict and conditions of peace.
RCSS has two flagship residential workshop series known as the “Summer and Winter Workshops”. The Summer Workshop series predominantly focuses on defence studies and conventional warfare i.e. nuclear technology. Overall, thirteen Summer Workshops had been organized on the following themes: Nuclear Disarmament; Safety and Stability (2014); Defence Technology and Cooperative Security in South Asia (1997 – 2006); and First Conference for Alumni on South Asia Facing the New Millennium (1999).
The focus of the Winter Workshop series is non-traditional security issues in South Asia including: terrorism, governance, gender, migration, ethnicity and religion, resources, development, environment, refugees among other human security issues that are causes of conflict. Many young professionals and experts from South Asia, China, the USA and other interested countries have participated in these workshop series, creating new knowledge and exploring different avenues for possible collaboration to find collective solutions to current global and regional issues.
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The Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS) and other Sri Lankan partners of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) conducted a two-day residential workshop for youth, titled ‘Youth for Democracy: Young Leaders Dialogue’ on the 21st and 22nd of December, 2019.