{"id":48099,"date":"2023-05-17T15:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/tenth-national-security-symposium-opens-in-kigali\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:05:42","slug":"tenth-national-security-symposium-opens-in-kigali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/tenth-national-security-symposium-opens-in-kigali\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenth National Security Symposium in Kigali discusses complex challenges facing the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The symposium brought together academicians, government officials, diplomats and subject matter experts including Generals and Senior Military Officers to discuss contemporary security issues with a theme: \u201cContemporary Security Challenges: The African Perspective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In his opening remarks, Minister of Defence Maj Gen Albert Murasira emphasised that over the years, National Security Symposium has widened participants\u2019 understanding and perspectives by listening to diverse views from policy makers, practitioners and scholars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year&#8217;s symposium provides an opportunity to discuss complex challenges facing the globe in general and our continent in particular. Such challenges range from building institutions and capacities for good governance; migration; emerging digital technologies; evaluate African initiatives to address some of our perennial challenges; foreign interference and the future of peacekeeping operations. <\/p>\n<p>The complex situation creates uncertainty to the functioning and survival of our nations and no single country can address them solely,\u201d said Maj Gen Murasira.<\/p>\n<p>The symposium discussions will cover a variety of topics ranging from good governance, migration and brain drain, foreign interference, the African Free Trade Area, digital technologies and peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n<p>Over 300 participants are sharing experience on the subjects above. They include student officers of the Senior Command and Staff Course from Rwanda and allied countries namely Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Senegal, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47836 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1m6a3859-ebac3.jpg\" alt=\"Participants of the symposium in a group photo. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47837 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1m6a3795-88df4.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Defence Maj Gen Albert Murasira delivering remarks at the event. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The tenth National Security Symposium 2023 jointly organized by Rwanda Defence Force Command and Staff College (RDFCSC) and the University of Rwanda (UR) has officially opened at Kigali Convention Centre.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}