Euro – Atlantic Council of Macedonia and YATA Macedonia from 18th to 21st of December 2013 organized the event “NATO PARTNERSHIP POLICY – ADDRESSING INSECURITIES AND CREATING SECURITY” for young leaders and professionals. The event was held in Hotel Manastir, Berovo, Republic of Macedonia.



The focus of this project was the future of the NATO Partnerships, with a special emphasis on Operational commitments, milestone contributions and the political significance of NATO Partners in international relations.  

Using already established networks and contacts in the Republic of Macedonia and abroad, EACM engaged the top young professionals, primarily through relevant ministries, think tanks, and universities.

This event welcomed 26 participants from Albania, Croatia, Italy, Netherlands, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Slovakia and Serbia.

The main concept of the event was to engage all participants in the discussion through the panels, workshops and the final simulation scenario.

The event began with the official opening and the lectures provided by Lt. Col Metodi Hadji Janev, Associate Professor, Vice Dean of the Military Academy, “General Mihajlo Apostolski”, and Dr Itamara Lochard, Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS), US Department of Defense and Dr Orce Popovski, Dean of the Military Academy, “General Mihajlo Apostolski”.

Тhe second panel was the Video conference session. During this session, the audience was addressed by Mr. Jason Wiseman, Interim Secretary General of the ATA and Mrs. Rowinda Appleman, President of the YATA International.  

Furthermore, YATA Macedonia team has organized the first Ice-breaker/Simulation Exercise according to the agenda, called The City.

The City was a role-play exercise that helps to set the rules in a fun way, while triggering creativity and driving group dynamics and interaction during the first day. The participants were divided into groups of 5-7 people and were given cards with roles and instruction.
The participants had task to come up with city rules, while playing the assigned roles. Each of the groups had 20 minutes to create 10 rules and after that they had 20 minutes for negotiations in order to agree on the 10 rules on which the city will function.

After this easy ice-breaker/exercise, there were two workshops for the participants, Assertions and Arguments and Three Different Case Studies.
During the first workshop the participants were given six different Assertion and Arguments and everyone had the choice to pick For, Against or Neutral on the assertion or the arguments.  After each statement, the participants discussed their stance and explained why they picked that stance.

On the second workshop, the participants were separated in three different groups to discuss three different real cases: Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Every group had 20 minutes for discussion and after that they created opinions and recommendations how the situation should be resolved.

The next day began with the conclusions of the first day, presented by Lt. Col Metodi Hadji Janev, Associate Professor, Vice Dean of the Military Academy, “General Mihajlo Apostolski”. Also he gave to the participants his opinion on every topic that was discussed during the first day.

Then, the main event of the seminar began, the simulation of the scenario.   
This simulation was role play with multiple roles which were given to the participants by random picking. The roles were:

•    Republic of Alfa
•    Indian Federation
•    Republic of Golf
•    Charlie Republic
•    Republic of Echo
•    President Zulu
•    Opposition “Fighters for Whiskey” (political wing)
•    Opposition “Fighters for Whiskey” (radical wing) (Romeo)
•    TANGO

The participants had scenario which had to be resolved by long lasting negotiations which will bring long term solution to the issue.

The simulation lasted whole day and the situation was resolved with agreeing a Framework Agreement.

The original description of the roles, the scenario for simulation and the Framework agreement on English language you can download it here!