Naples, Italy, 24- 26 March 2022 - Security Experts, Academics and Policy Makers from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and throughout Western Europe met to discuss integration of infrastructure as a means to build peace and stability in the South Caucasus region. In the context of the diplomatic and economic environment being established in the wake of the 44-Days War on Nagorno-Karabakh and the tensions between NATO, Partners and Russia emerging from the conflict in Ukraine the 25 experts considered the impacts of regional economic integration and infrastructure toward promoting inter-ethnic reconciliation and regional stability across the South Caucasus and worked on a concept for an inclusive, multilateral and comprehensive regional platform to address these issues at a working level.

The group began discussion on several specific regional economic projects within a “basket” of initiatives for the proposed Eastern Table/Strategic Peacebuilding Group. The PfP Consortium’s “Regional Stability in the South Caucasus Study Group in partnership with the Austrian National Defence Academy will publish the findings and recommendations of the event, which was conducted in in partnership with the Austrian Directorate for National Defence Policy, the European Geopolitical Forum – Brussels, and the Royal Military College of Canada.