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The Partnership for Peace Consortium was founded in 1998, following a speech by United States Secretary of Defense William Cohen delivered at the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council defense ministers meeting on the 12th of June 1998. The founding was further affirmed in the concluding documents of the NATO and EAPC Summits on the 24th and the 25th of April 1999.
The Partnership for Peace Consortium is based at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
The Partnership for Peace Consortium works with defense academies and security studies institutes in over 60 countries. According to the 2012 annual report, 800 institutions across 59 countries participated in PfPC events that year.
Connections is a peer-reviewed open access academic quarterly journal established in 2002 by the Partnership for Peace Consortium. It covers security, defense, armed forces, conflict, intelligence, and related issues, and is distributed to over 1,000 institutions in 54 countries. It is indexed in Scopus, JSTOR, ProQuest, and EBSCO databases, among others.
The Security Sector Reform Working Group, formally established in 2001, is financially supported by the Swiss Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport.
The Defense Education Enhancement Program (DEEP) is a multinational staffed initiative within the Education Development Working Group that helps foreign government defense institutions improve curriculum quality and faculty development. As of December 2014, DEEP programs were active in 13 nations: Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Georgia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Mauritania, Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.