The work on producing the outcome document of the Helsinki+50 Reflection Process was completed on the eve of the Helsinki+50 Conference on 31 July 2025.
The report “Ten Points for the Present and Future” provides a compilation of key findings and recommendations made by the project participants during five expert seminars (5 reports were produced after each seminar), 13 papers written in the project framework, and communication with the Finnish Chairpersonship on the future of the OSCE and the Helsinki process.
The outcome document is 30 pages long and includes 10 chapters:
- Starting with recognising that the OSCE is in crisis and searching for ways of restoring respect for OSCE acquis
- Upholding the relevance of the Helsinki principles in the changing world
- Effectively realising the comprehensive security concept
- Addressing conflicts and concerns in the politico-military dimension of security: The role of OSCE structures and participating States
- Addressing conflicts and concerns in the politico-military dimension of security: The role of civil society
- Ensuring effective addressing of environmental security concerns by the OSCE
- Adopting a feminist perspective on security
- Expanding civil society engagement with the OSCE and protecting civic space: What the OSCE structures and participating States can do
- Expanding civil society engagement with the OSCE: What civil society can do
- Advancing the Helsinki principles beyond the OSCE: What civil society can do
The document includes an annex with links to a list of reports on the seminars and expert papers produced in the framework of the Reflection Process.
The outcome document authors are Doug Wake, Konstanin Baranov, Dmitri Makarov, Natascha Cerny, Harry Hummel and Yuri Dzhibladze.