This pioneering project could have long-term implications. It may serve as a model for other former Warsaw Pact countries that must, sooner or later, contemplate restructuring domestic higher military education. The experience that CESS has gained through its close involvement in the Czech Republic will be a valuable asset for assistance in these reforms. CESS has undertaken less formal curriculum-related activities in other countries as well. In Bulgaria, we helped the Centre for Personnel Training for National Security of the Ministry of Defence to establish and develop courses for military officers and civil servants.
Consultations are in progress on assistance to other countries, including Lithuania and Ukraine.
Over sixty seminar days per year were organised on a range of security-related topics. From 1997 onwards this work was continued, under the rubric Consolidating Reform, which reflected the success the effort had achieved. This first major CESS undertaking aimed at tackling the most urgent problems in the sphere of information provision at that stage. In the course of time the contents, structure and scope of the seminars and courses were gradually adapted to make the material more suitable to the needs of the various target groups engaged in security-sector reform. Comparing the disparate opinions of different speakers was an eye-opener for participants, who had been conditioned to respect one official truth.