Global Consortium on Security Transformation

Working Group on Regional Security from Above and Below

The Working Group on Regional Security from Above and Below (WGRS), a subcomponent of the Global Consortium on Security Transformation, focuses on perspectives, conceptions, processes, activities, etc. of formal institutionalized intergovernmental organizations (above) and informal, non-institutionalized non-governmental groups (below) in four regions in order to determine how regional security is viewed  by the two sets of actors in Latin America, South Asia, Southeast Asia and West Africa in order to find ways by which views regarding regional security actors from "below" might be able to provide inputs to and be reflected in security policy making by those from "above".