Summary

• Security policy is driven by current events and practical strategies to deal with urgent challenges need to be devised fast. These policies are mostly short-term and ad hoc ones. Yet, they often have serious longterm consequences for security orders.
  
  
• The perfect model of a state exercising a legitimate monopoly on the use of force over a given territory has probably never been fully implemented. Nevertheless, a large number of fragile and less-developed states worldwide aspire to functioning monopolies on the use of force.
  
  
• Major changes in the arena of peace and security policy and new challenges like the broadening of security concepts or the privatization and commercialization of force have further complicated security provision, too.
  
  
• The reflection group shall focus on concept and practice of the monopoly on the use of force as a central pillar of security order. It shall look beyond day-to-day policy and provide orientation for the longer term developments of security provision for the 21st century.