Types of events

Colloquia, seminars, conference-debates, festivals, about fifty events a year, are all events that the ACCSS wants to register in the national and international debate. Many of our events are open to a wide audience; others are organized in a more restricted format, on an ACCSS initiative or responding to the need for a sponsor, bringing together high-level economic and political actors for an exchange on more sensitive security and strategic issues. The ACCSS also organizes The Debates of the ACCSS, regular conference-debates reserved in particular for its members.

Conferences / symposia open to the public

ACCSS organizes numerous events throughout the year and major international meetings open to a large audience, which provide an update on security news. Several major events punctuate the annual agenda of our activities:

The annual school safety days

Created in 2019, the annual school safety days are a citizen meeting on issues of delinquency in a school environment, to decipher the security challenges facing the school. Understanding, giving perspectives, multiplying exchanges between specialists and the public, these are the objectives of these two days organized around fifteen round tables and in the presence of more than sixty speakers. The annual school safety days are organized by ACCSS in partnership with the ministries in charge of national education in Cameroon.

« Safe trips » days

Organized each year since 2019, in partnership with the Ministry of Transport of Cameroon, these days are a place of debate and dialogue, intended for a large audience, and bringing together high-level Cameroonian and foreign personalities and more generally committed citizens who wish discuss factors of insecurity in the means of transport in Cameroon in particular and on the African continent in general.

Domestic violence days

Organized every year since 2019 in partnership with UN Women, these days are a place of debate and dialogue, intended for a large audience, and bringing together high-level Cameroonian and foreign personalities and more generally committed citizens who wish to debate issues of domestic violence, especially when it affects women and children.

Other events

The ACCSS occasionally organizes other events aimed at enabling the general public to learn about and debate major geopolitical issues, on the ACCSS initiative or in partnership with other structures.

EXAMPLES OF THEMES: Climate, agriculture and food security; crime and governance; Access to justice; fear and insecurity; Conflict prevention etc.

Bilateral meetings – think tanks

The ACCSS organizes meetings between political, economic and international experts several times a year. These restricted meetings are intended to reinforce exchanges and compare points of view between decision-makers, in an informal framework for discussion. Bringing together senior officials, politicians, industrialists, academics, representatives of civil society. There are regular meetings, but specific meetings can be organized at the request of sponsors. Among the recurring bilateral meetings, we can cite RAPOCH (police-researcher rapprochement), RADOCH (customs-researcher rapprochement), the circle of reflection on prison and the future of punishment, etc. These think tanks can also be thematic (fight against fraud in sports, against counterfeit medicines, against the improper issue of driving licenses, etc.).

Member conferences

The ACCSS regularly organizes The Debates of the ACCSS, conferences reserved primarily for its members, and invites politicians, journalists, researchers, etc., to come and speak on international security news or on the occasion of the publication of work.