The State Secretariat for Security Policy (SEPOS) published the draft of Switzerland’s first Security Policy Strategy in December 2025. The core content of the strategy focuses on militarised security, largely omitting the social and gendered dimensions of security, as well as conflict prevention. Although the drafting process mostly excluded members from civil society, in collaboration with other like-minded Swiss civil society organisations we were able to provide constructive contributions to the public consultation. The joint civil society demands are:

• The final version of the Swiss Security Strategy must include prevention, the respect of international treaties and a human-centred understanding of security.

• Swiss civil society organisations’ demands must be considered in budgeting decisions related to this strategy and Swiss civil society must be involved in the monitoring of the implementation of this strategy and in the drafting of any future security policy strategies.

• In May 2026 we launched a campaign to call for SECURITY FOR ALL on our social media channels (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn), starting with an opinion article that was published in Swiss media. We say No to a security policy strategy that ignores more than half of the population in Switzerland and prioritises militarisation over conflict prevention, peacebuilding and sustainability.

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