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 likeminded Swiss civil society organisations we were able to provide constructive inputs to SEPOS during the consultation phase[CS1] . The joint civil society demands are:

-          The redrafting[ of the Swiss Security Strategy must include elements of [CS3] conflict prevention, the respect of international treaties and a human-centred understanding of security.

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

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