The IFSH’s Centre for OSCE Research (CORE) is a unique institution dedicated to analyzing the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). CORE examines the organizational development of the OSCE, as well as its activities in areas such as conflict management, military risk reduction, the security implications of climate change, and human rights. CORE’s flagship publication, OSCE Insights, is a policy paper series and the successor to the OSCE Yearbook. CORE’s past activities include training incoming OSCE Chairs, coordinating the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions, and establishing the OSCE Academy in Bishkek. CORE was founded in 2000, in the presence of the then German Federal President Johannes Rau and OSCE Secretary General Ján Kubiš.