The seminars covered a broad horizon of issues, from which the Challenges Project Partners selected fourteen topics for inclusion as separate chapters in the Challenges Concluding Report:

1. Changing Concept of Security
2. The Role of the UN and of Regional Organizations and Arrangements
3. The Legal Dimension in Peace Operations
4. Integrating the Human Rights Perspective
5. Doctrinal Challenges
6. Preventive Action
7. Gender Perspectives in Effective Peace Operations
8. Civil-Military Relations and Cooperation
9. Police - In the Service of Peace
10. Planning for Effective Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
11. Safety and Security of UN Peacekeepers and Associated Personnel
12. Information Technology and Peace Operations:
    A Relationship for the New Millenium
13. Training and Education
14. Determining Success in Peace Operations