DEFENCE : ORGANISERS DECLARE SECURITY JAM' A SUCCESS.

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Creating a joint EU-US civilian response corps, setting up a multilingual website to promote the values of the Afghan army and linking NATO's Allied Command Transformation (ACT) to the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy were among the several thousand ideas thrown up during a global online security forum in early February. The security jam' registered more 10,000 logins over six days, many from well-known names in the defence world, such as Kai Eide, the UN special representative in Afghanistan, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) Admiral James Stavridis and Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.

Organised by the Security and Defence Agenda think tank, the forum's aim was to gather ideas from security experts from government, international organisations, the military and think tanks, academia, NGOs and the media looking for "global solutions" to "global challenges".

Stavridis won widespread support for a call for a small number of civilian experts in reconstruction, stability and...