Border Management Staff College (BMSC) works to enhance the knowledge of senior border security and management officials while promoting greater co-operation and exchange of information among them. The College, located in the heart of Central Asia, services the 57 participating States, and their Partners for Co-operation.
To effectively tackle multiple border-related threats of increasingly transnational nature that all OSCE participating States face sound border and security management is required. These threats include terrorism, organized crime, illicit trafficking of human beings, weapons and narcotics, difficult and long trade and transit routes and procedures, disputes that give rise to unresolved border delimitation and demarcation, and challenges related to migration, asylum seekers and refugees.