Contributor(s): Lakhdar Brahimi, Professor Mary Kaldor, Javier Solana | The event will discuss the gap between contemporary security needs and security capabilities, and will launch the new five-year research programme 'Security in Transition: an interdisciplinary investigation into the security gap'. Lakhdar Brahimi served as head of the UN assistance mission in Afghanistan from 2001-04. Mary Kaldor is professor of global governance at the Department of International Development. Javier Solana is the former secretary general of NATO and former secretary general of the Council of the European Union.