The organizers of the Forum are: Institutefor National Strategic Studiesof the Ministry ofDefence of the Republicof Armenia (INSS, MOD, RA), Secretariat of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Joint Staff of the CSTO, Academic-ExpertCouncilof the CSTO, the Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of the Institute of International Studies MGIMO (University) – MFA, RF, Russian Political Science Association (RPSA), Political Science Association of Armenia (PSAA). The RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan, Deputy Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization Valery Semerikov, representatives of the CSTO Secretariat, and Academic-ExpertCouncil of the CSTO participated in the Forum. International experts on peacekeeping from the UN, the OSCE, the EU, the SCO, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and Stockholm International Peace Research Institute made presentations. Participants from Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Belgium, Israel, Italy, South Africa, the Netherlands, Sweden, and China attended the Forum. Ambassadors and Military Attaches of the CSTO member states, the OSCE Minsk Group Co-Chair states, as well as heads of offices of international organizations accredited in Armenia were invited to the Forum. The RA President Serzh Sargsyan’s welcoming address to the participants of the Forum was presented by the head of the INSS, MOD, Chairman of the PSAA, Doctor of political sciences MG Hayk Kotanjian. The President expresses his confidence that in current tensed international relations Yerevan annual international strategic policy forums may become a platform for both regional and global academic-expert dialogue on international security issues. The CSTO Deputy Secretary General Valery Semerikov also welcomed the participants. During the forum, from the Armenian side presentations were made by the RA Minister of Defense Seyran Ohanyan, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RA Shavarsh Kocharyan, Head of the INSS, MOD, RA, Chairman of the Political Science Association of Armenia, Doctor of Political Science, Major General Hayk Kotanjian, Commander of the peacekeeping brigade of the RA Armed Forces, Major General Arthur Simonyan. They touched upon the issue of developing the peacekeeping capacities of the RA Armed Forces, the role of peacekeeping in the context of ensuring the RA’s security, the experience of participation of the Armenian peacekeeping brigade in international peacekeeping operations. In his presentation Major General Hayk Kotanjian thoroughly analysed the role of formation and development of governmental institutions in peacekeeping process, in this context putting emphasize to the state-building process in the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic as an important factor for ensuring peace and stability in the region. The foreign participants in their presentations discussed the peacekeeping operations’ experience of the UN, the OSCE, the EU, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, and the African Union. The participants from the CSTO member states touched upon the formation and development issues of the Organization’s peacekeeping capacities. The representatives from Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and Centre for Euro-Atlantic of the Institute for International Studies of MGIMO (University)– MFA, RF focused on the theoretical issues of peacekeeping operations. At the end of the Forum a Statement was adopted, in which the role of international organizations’ peacekeeping operations in ensuring stability and security in different regions of the world, as well as the importance of the formation of governmental institutions for conflict resolution is emphasized. In the statement a special emphasis is put on the importance of peaceful resolution of conflicts based on the norms of international law–first of allby refraining from the threat or use offorce. It is emphasized that the Collective Security Treaty Organization, taking the responsibility for the Eurasian security, may become one of the active participants of the peacekeeping operations’ system.