Funkcje Organizacji Bezpieczeństwa i Współpracy w Europie w kształtowaniu bezpieczeństwa

This author discusses the activity of The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The main aim of this paper is to present the main functions of the OSCE in the building up of generally understood security. The first part of the paper is about the origin of the OSCE. The second part discusses the main documents regulating the tasks of the OSCE as well as the principal functions that the organization fulfils in the main areas of its activity. The last part presents the results of the OSCE’s work and possible areas in which the organization could work in the future.