New approaches to arms control, resolving protracted conflicts and promoting reconciliation as foundations for strengthening security in the OSCE area are the focus of OSCE Security Days 2012 in Vienna.

The Security Days event brings together a prominent group of experts and OSCE delegates to discuss new security challenges and the role of civil society in shaping a security community, organization’s official website reports.

“We have started a vital debate on building a security community, which represents a further step in developing a new security relationship in the OSCE area, looking at the Euro-Atlantic dimension, the Eurasian and the Euro-Mediterranean as well.

This is forcing us to relook at the traditional security tools of the OSCE, such as arms control, confidence and security-building measures, globalization and transnational threats,” said OSCE Secretary General Lamberto Zannier.