Voluntary Civic Defence

What Slovakia Can Learn from Regional Experiences

20 May 2020

Matej Kandrík

Marcin Król Fellow

It is commendable that the new Slovak government is thinking about introducing a similar program in the context of defence policy reforms. It should be in the state’s interest to cultivate this special relationship with the population.

The new Slovak government, led by Igor Matovič wants to strengthen the preparation of the population for the state defence. It plans to introduce changes in education, improve the voluntary military training programme, and launch a broad information campaign.

These steps should finally get Slovakia on the train, which our closest neighbours and more distant NATO allies are on for some time.

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Matej Kandrík

Marcin Król Fellow

Matej Kandrík is a Marcin Król Fellow 2022/2023 and a cofounder of Adapt Institute and a PhD candidate in Political Science with a specialisation in Security and Strategic Studies at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia. In 2016 he did a research stay at the National Defence University of Poland. He collaborated as a research fellow with the German Marshall Fund of the United States and the International Republican Institute as a Transatlantic Initiative fellow. Currently, he is participating in CEU Democratic Institute Leadership Academy. His research interests include comprehensive defence, paramilitarism in Central Eastern Europe and strategic communication.

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