PGSD WORKING PAPER No

Program On General Disarmament

PGSD WORKING PAPER No. 5

DRAFT – 8 June 2003

Global Guide to Disarmament and

Non-Proliferation Education

Universities and Educational Institutions

(listed alphabetically by country)

NOTE: The university programs and NGOs listed below are provided as examples of the work being done worldwide on disarmament and non-proliferation issues. As such, many prominent institutes that focus on peace studies and/or conflict resolution have been omitted due to the constraints of the mandate. For a good list of such institutes, see the list compiled and updated by Robin Crews of Communications for a Sustainable Future at the University of Colorado, Boulder, http://csf.colorado.edu/peace/academic.html.

ALGERIA

URAMA (Unité de Recherche Afrique-Monde Arabe), University of Constantine

Contact: Azzouz Kerdoun, director (phone) +213 (4) 680 272

URAMA is a non-profit research center affiliated with the University of Constantine that conducts research into conflict resolution and security issues in the Mediterranean region, the Arab world, and Africa. The organization also conducts training and educational programs and publishes the journal Annals de l’URAMA.

ARGENTINA

University of Buenos Aires

http://www.uba.ar/homepage.html

Contact: Alicia Cabesudo

Awaiting translation.

AUSTRALIA

The Strategic and Defense Studies Center, Australian National University

http://sdsc.anu.edu.au

Contact: sdsc@anu.edu.au

“Australia's premier strategic research institution,” the Center offers post graduate education in a wide variety of strategic and defense issues, war, conflict, and international security.

School of Public Science and International Studies, University of Queensland

http://www.uq.edu.au/politics/

Submitted by Dr. Marianne Hanson. Communication details proposed Masters level course on Arms Control and Disarmament, to be offered in January 2003. It will make up part of the Masters in Peace and Conflict Resolution, to be taken primarily by students of the Rotary Centre for International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution. Hanson also notes recent publication of her book (eds with Carl Ungerer) entitled, The Politics of Nuclear Nonproliferation, Allen and Unwin, 2001.

AUSTRIA

Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution

http://www.aspr.ac.at/aspr.htm

Submitted by Nicole Lieger. Existing programs in Higher Education include postgraduate study in Peace and Conflict Studies (EPU). Through the International Peace-Keeping and Peace-Building Training Programmes at ASPR there are special training seminars regarding disarmament and the re-integration of ex-combatants in post conflict scenarios in Africa (case cited in Mozambique). All programs include government and municipal officials, military personnel and NGOs.

European University Center for Peace Studies (EPU)

http://www.aspr.ac.at/welcome.htm

Contact: epu@epu.ac.at

Grants both undergraduate and graduate degrees. The EPU offers many peacekeeping and conflict resolution courses, some of which have direct relevance for disarmament and non-proliferation, such as its seminar on “Violence, Security and Demilitarisation.” Winner of the 1995 UNESCO Prize for Peace Education.

BELGIUM

The Centre for Peace and Security Studies, The Free University of Brussels (VUB)

http://poli.vub.ac.be/

Contact: G. Geeraerts, director, ggeeraer@vub.ac.be

Also known as the Center for Polemology, this center offers courses for students of political science and conducts research. Fields of study include “alternative defense, disarmament, arms dynamics and security policy.” Staff includes LaForce Kurt (Kurt.Laforce@vub.ac.be), whose research interests include the proliferation of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, as well as regional and global nuclear disarmament.

BOLIVIA

Department of Education for Peace and Integration, Nur University

http://www.nur.edu/

Awaiting translation.

BRAZIL

Instituto de Fisica, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

http://www.if.ufrj.br/

Submitted by Fernando de Souza-Barros. Major concern about the potential capacities for nuclear weapons development in Latin American Countries. Mr. de Souza-Barros recommends that “specific educational materials should be prepared to Latin America based on the history of the Argentinean-Brazilian nuclear issue”. He notes that while government officials had roles in the development of the Argentine-Brazilian Agreement for the Exclusive Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy, members of the media and academia were left out. With respect to the mandate he recommends that “a project of educational materials should take into account the available channels for dissemination of knowledge in the region, in particular ‘public opinion makers.’” He advocates that the study make “scientific literacy a matter of citizenship”, and that “special attention be given to expose science teachers to these educational materials.”

CANADA

Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies (CISS)

http://www.ciss.ca

Contact: James I. Hanson, director of Programs & Media Relations, info@ciss.ca

An institute “dedicated to the research, analysis and discussion of national and international strategic issues in a Canadian context.” It deals with a diverse set of issues that affect the national security of the country, including peacekeeping, conflict resolution, arms control and disarmament. Publishes the journal Peacekeeping & International Relations.

Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre

http://www.cdnpeacekeeping.ns.ca/

Submitted by David Gairdner. Details of courses regarding effectiveness of peacekeepers in conflict zones. Of particular relevance to Study is the course entitled “Hard Road Home: Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration” which focuses on post conflict reintegration as holistic in approach: “must take into account the social, economic and political environment in which former combatants must live together”. Reintegration is considered a vital component to sustainable disarmament.

The Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament Studies, University of British Columbia

http://www.ligi.ubc.ca/simons.htm

Submitted by Dr. Jennifer Allen Simons. Press Release announcing Canada’s first research Centre “dedicated to the pursuit of innovative solutions to strategic disarmament and arms control challenges.” Established in January 2002, the Simons Centre for Peace and Disarmament Studies will be located in the Lui Centre for the study of Global Issues at UBC focussing on small arms, nuclear weapons and the “impacts of rapid environmental change.” The Centre aims to work across communities of academics, government officials, NGOs and general public.

York Center for International Strategic Studies, York University

http://www.yorku.ca/yciss

Contact: David Mutimer, Ann Denholm Crosby

One of the four major, active research topics at this center is “Strategic Studies,” which includes traditional and non-traditional aspects of security from both a Canadian and an international perspective. Issues studied “encompass theoretical and policy-oriented aspects of strategic studies, the determinants and formulation of foreign and defence policies, civil-military relations, arms control and disarmament, weapons proliferation, confidence building measures, and approaches to peacekeeping.”

CHINA

Program on Arms Control and Regional Security, Center for American Studies

Fudan University

http://ftp.hku.hk/fudan/htdocs/English/Academic/Res_Agent/ame_res/content2.htm#keti

Contact: www@www.fudan.sh.cn

An academic center that carries out research on the issues of U.S. defense policy, nuclear arms control and disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation and limitation of conventional arms transfers (among other topics).

Program in Arms Control and Disarmament, Peking University

Mentioned on the Monterey webpage under “Principal Organizations in China's Nonproliferation and Arms Control Community” (http://cns.miis.edu/cns/projects/eanp/pubs/chinaorg.htm), but no further details are available.

Contact: Hua Han is the project leader.

COLOMBIA

Programa ANPAZ, Universidad de los Andes

http://www.uniandes.edu.co

Awaiting translation.

DENMARK

Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI)

http://www.copri.dk/

Contact: Bjoern Moeller, info@copri.dk

A research institution whose purpose is to “stimulate debate and research on international key issues related to Peace and Security Studies.” The institute does this primarily through research, seminars, and an enormous number of publications (http://www.copri.dk/publications/books.htm). Among its research programs is one entitled “Military Restructuring,” which investigates a variety of post-Cold War arms and security issues.

EGYPT

Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies (ACPSS)

http://www.acpss.org

Contact: Mohamed el Sayed Said, deputy director, acpss@acpss.org

Conducts research on security issues with a focus on military and security matters in the Middle East. Involved in both education and public advocacy.

FINLAND

The Åland Islands Peace Institute

http://www.peace.aland.fi/research.html

Contact: peace@peace.aland.fi

A foundation which runs a number of courses and seminars on a wide variety of peace-related issues. According to its website, in the past few years it has paid more attention to “the narrow and military-oriented understanding of security,” and has tried to call attention to “new understandings such as societal security, democratic security and environmental security.”

Verifin, Helsinki University

http://www.verifin.helsinki.fi/

Submitted/translated by Sari Nurro. Institute specializing in chemical weapons verification and analysis methods, which also arranges basic and advanced level courses on chemical verification analysis for disarmament purposes. Training has been provided for students from developing countries and inspectors for OPCW.

GERMANY

Center for International Relations/Peace and Conflict Studies

The University of Tübingen (Germany)

http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/spi/indexeng.htm

Contact: Volker Rittberger, director, volker.rittberger@uni-tuebingen.de

Disarmament has been a major focus of research and education at this Center for more than 25 years (http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/spi/ab2eng.htm#Disarmament). It remains at the core of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees that the University offers in international relations and peace studies.

Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH)

University of Hamburg

http://www.ifsh.de/english.htm

Contact: PD Dr. Reinhard Mutz, Dr. Götz Neuneck

One of the five research programs at IFSH is “Arms Control and Disarmament.” According to its statutes, IFSH focuses on “global political and security issues within a framework of peace research. Its goal is to promote balanced and innovative academic research, training, and teaching and to publish its research results.” It does this through close contact between its researchers and officials from both the German government and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, for which it publishes an annual yearbook.

Peace Research Institute - Frankfurt (PRIF)

http://www.hsfk.de/eng/index.htm

Contact: Prof. Harald Müller (Head), Dr Alexander Kelle, Dr Bernd W. Kubbig, Prof. Berthold Meyer, Dr Annette Schaper, Hans Joachim Schmidt

One of four main areas of research at PRIF is “Arms Control and Disarmament,” which encompasses active work on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, chemical and biological weapons, conventional forces in Europe, small arms, landmines, arms transfers, and other topics. PRIF has concluded a cooperation agreement with the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt on joint research projects and post-graduate studies. In addition, PRIF provides an average of 15 internships for university students per year. Finally, it “keeps a critical watch on the attempts of the international community to get movement in the armaments field under control and works out suitable options for action within the framework of an ongoing dialogue with: the German foreign ministry's arms-control department, NATO office, and planning section; the German delegations to the Geneva disarmament conference and OSCE security forum; the specialist departments of the major EU member-states; the relevant directorates-general of the European Commission; and the NATO disarmament office.”

GUATEMALA

International Relations and Peace Research Institute

Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

http://www.usac.edu.gt/

Awaiting translation.

INDIA

Disarmament Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

http://www.jnu.ac.in

Submitted by Kanti Bajpai. Survey of existing programs and related Institutes in India, including: Centre for International Politics, Organisation and Disarmament (CIPOD) at Jawaharlal Nehru University; Core Group for the study of National Security (CSNS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University; Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies in New Delhi; Indian Pugwash Society, New Delhi; Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament (MIND), New Delhi; and others. Recommendations to the study include strengthening teaching and research programs within the aforementioned institutes and organizations; outreach to high schools; UN documentary or film series on the history of disarmament and nonproliferation; more visits and talks by UN officials dealing with disarmament within India. As regards innovative teaching vis a vis the mandate the following is recommended: develop simulations and games in teaching materials; more use of audio visual teaching components; develop websites on global, regional and national disarmament and nonproliferation issues; encourage distance learning.

IRELAND

Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen’s University of Belfast

http://www.qub.ac.uk/iis/

Submitted by Dr. Colin Irwin. Submission to the study constitutes a paper written about the use of opinion polls to support the Northern Ireland peace process and a description of Irwin’s book entitled The People’s Peace Process in Northern Ireland, followed by a separate submission of a paper on Security Dialogue. No specific recommendations were made.

ISRAEL

Graduate Program on Conflict Management and Negotiation

Bar Ilan University

http://faculty.biu.ac.il/~steing/conflict/programenglish.htm

Submitted by Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg. Submission to the Study constitutes an outline of course entitled “Introduction to Arms Control and Non Proliferation.” The course ethos is that all citizens be equipped with the information necessary to understand the impact of post-cold war security issues. Broken into two sections, the course details first the nature of the threats posed then moves onto practical step by step approaches to disarmament and arms control. Particular interest in WMD as well as the psychology and history of warfare.

Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies

http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/index.html

Contact: Shai Feldman, head, jcss2@post.tau.ac.il

The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies of Tel Aviv University researches aspects of the Arab-Israel conflict, with the emphasis on security problems and their place in conflict resolution. One research project is “The Nature of Peace in the Middle East,” which seeks to identify the factors that determine the development of relations between former adversaries after the formal resolution of their conflicts.

ITALY

Carlo Cattaneo School Group, Reggio Emilia

Submitted by Antonio Torrenzano and Margharita Romanelli (awaiting translation).

JAPAN

International Studies, Meijigakuin University

http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~kokusai/

Submitted by Takao Takahara. Submission to the Study constitutes an outline of existing programs, which include undergraduate courses on Peace Studies and Peace Research plus a graduate course on Disarmament Studies. These are cited under ‘formal education.’ For informal education, he cites an occasional lecture series on related topics. Every three years the organization conducts a lecture series open to the general public, in collaboration with the university. These lectures “deal with topics related to peace and disarmament.”

Institute for Peace Science (IPSHU), Hiroshima University

http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/heiwa/ipshue.html

Contact: Masatsugu Matsuo, director, ipshu@ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Seeking to build a new paradigm for peace research that is interdisciplinary, IPSHU tries to relate Hiroshima's own atomic catastrophe to a model for world peace. The Institute also promotes cooperation between researchers and institutes and works to gather information and develop systematic methodologies to disseminate collected knowledge.

MALAYSIA

Strategic and Security Studies Unit, University of Kebangsaan

http://www.jcie.or.jp/thinknet/research_instit/malaysia/UPSK.html

Submitted by Dr. Mohd. Kamarulnizam Abdullah. Submission to the study describes existing programs of the Strategic and Security Studies Unit, which was originally established to “cater for the needs of the Malaysia defense and security forces.” Since 1987 the program has been offered on a postgraduate level, and maintains close ties with the Center for Strategic Studies, Colombo and the East West Center in Hawaii; with new alliances being forged with Colorado School of Mines, Hiroshima Peace Institute and the Swedish Agency of Research Council. Courses of interest attached.

NIGERIA

The Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Ibadan

http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/metadata/ibadan.html

Contact: Dr. Jimmi Adesina, jadesina@cear.org.ng; J.A. Adekanye; F.O. Adisa

Offers a Masters in Peace and Conflict Studies, this Center focuses primarily on issues of conflict in Africa. Crucial to all such issues is, of course, disarmament of local actors prior to and following peace accords. The Center hopes to reverse the “marginalization of the African continent in the scale of global priority amidst festering conflicts,” and hopes to help develop mechanisms to manage conflict from beginning to end.

PAKISTAN

Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad

http://www.ips.org.pk

Contact: main@ips.sdnpk.undp.org

IPS is an independent NGO dedicated to research and debate on public policy issues, including developing new policy alternatives. The Institute focuses especially on Pakistan and the Muslim world, but also deals with international issues. Topics include foreign relations and diplomacy, religion, culture, and security and defense, among others. IPS also holds conferences, training programs and publishes in periodicals to increase public awareness and to stimulate policy debate. As of today, the Institute is primarily interested in research, but plans to expand its educational ventures in the near future.

Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS), Islamabad

www.issi.org.pk

Contact: strategy@isb.paknet.com.pk, strategy@paknet2.ptc.pk

ISS is "a non-profit autonomous research and analysis center for promoting public understanding of the vital issues of international peace and security." The institution analyzes security issues in the region and seeks to promote public understanding of these issues as well as the impact that these issues may have throughout the world. ISS hosts seminars, conferences, public talks, and in-house meetings on security issues in the region.

Department of International Relations, University of Karachi

http://www.kuird.org/

Submitted by Dr. Mutahir Ahmed. Submission to the study describes existing programs, including a full semester course entitled “Arms Control and Disarmament” which is offered on both graduate and postgraduate level. Course introduces various theories of disarmament with a “particular focus on non-traditional concepts of security.” Collaboration is important in the Department, such as, working with other research institutes and promoting international exchange. Programs are made available to government officials and military personnel. Also of note, the newly established Peace and Conflict Studies Programme whose remit is to broaden the potential offered by Conflict Resolution, Confidence Building Measures and Peace Studies in South Asia. A list of courses is attached.

PHILIPPINES

Programme on Peace, Conflict Resolution and Human Rights

University of the Philippines

Contact: Maria Serena I. Diokno, programme director (phone) +63 (2) 928 9691

A part of the Center for Integrative and Development Studies at the University of the Philippines, this program aims to “redefine and extend the role of the university as an agent of peace by generating studies and other activities, such as policy advice and public education, that will contribute to critical and political knowledge of aspects of peace, human rights and conflict resolution.”

RUSSIA

Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

http://www.armscontrol.ru/

Contact: Eugene Miasnikov, eugene@armscontrol.ru

Very active in research and publication regarding nonproliferation, post-Cold War nuclear issues, arms trade, conventional arms proliferation, and post-Soviet arms issues in general. Courses offered include “Strategic Arms and Problems of Security” (in Russian). Maintains a register monitoring the international arms trade, and runs a project called “Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR),” http://www.armscontrol.ru/start/, which investigates the potential for post-Cold War nuclear disarmament.

Center for Policy Studies in Russia (PIR)

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

http://www.pircenter.org/english/index.htm

Contacts: Vladimir Orlov, Yuri Federov, Dmitry Kovchegin, Vadim Kozyulin

Founded in 1994, PIR is a “non-profit, independent, Moscow-based research and public education organization.” Although the Center conducts research on a broad range of issues that are relevant to the entire international system, it is currently “focused on international security, arms control, and non-proliferation issues that are directly related to Russia's internal situation.” One of the Center’s main goals is “to educate Russian decision makers, legislators, young researchers, and students in the areas of international security and arms control.”

SINGAPORE

Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies

Nanyang Technological University

http://www.ntu.edu.sg/idss/

Contact: wwwidss@ntu.edu.sg

Singapore’s biggest and most prestigious defense and security research center, covering a wide variety of issues from many angles and approaches. Offers postgraduate degrees in security studies and international relations.

SOUTH AFRICA

The Centre for Conflict Resolution, The University of Cape Town

http://ccrweb.ccr.uct.ac.za/

Contact: mailbox@ccr.uct.ac.za

A huge center with more than thirty full-time researchers whose stated goal is to “contribute towards a just peace in South Africa and elsewhere in Africa by promoting constructive, creative and co-operative approaches to the resolution of conflict and the reduction of violence.” It offers a variety of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and its active research projects cover many security and disarmament issues, including: demobilization of former combatants; international peacekeeping; non-offensive defense; arms control and disarmament; military production and expenditure; national defense policy; and regional security.

Arms Management Programme, Institute for Security Studies

http://www.iss.co.za/Projects/Amp/AMP.html

Contact: Sarah Meek, Arms Management Programme Head smeek@iss.co.za

Submitted by Clare Jefferson. The Institute for Security Studies conducts surveys “measuring the penetration of firearms and firearms dependency within communities as a means of designing actions on disarmament.” Related findings were posted to the DDA under a separate cover. A manual for assisting communities in running small arms disarmament campaigns is also noted.

Pomfret Peace and Disarmament Education Centre

Submitted by Prof. Hassan O. Kaya. Submission to the study describes the establishment of Educational Centre for Peace “to transform the Pomfret military base into a Centre whose activities would empower the community to achieve sustainable livelihoods.” Fundamental to this project is to “find a way of transforming the culture of violence into a culture of peace and non-violence.” The detailed plan includes social and economic conversion from a military base to a self-sustaining community informed by values of human dignity and respect.

Department of International Relations

University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

http://ssocial.wits.ac.za/ir/

Contact: Dr. Garth Shelton, 161GLS@cosmos.wits.ac.za

Dr. Shelton teaches security studies classes on the undergraduate level, with a special focus on arms issues. He does work on a variety of issues relating to disarmament and nonproliferation, with a current focus on the South African nuclear weapons experience and its implications for the global nuclear nonproliferation regime.

SOUTH KOREA

The Graduate Institute of Peace Studies, Kyung Hee University (South Korea)

http://www.kyunghee.edu/

Contact: gip@khu.ac.kr

Established in 1984 to “train and educate potential world leaders through peace education,” the Graduate Institute of Peace Studies offers post graduate degrees in peace and security studies. An “Arms Control and Disarmament” seminar is part of its curriculum.

SPAIN

Chair on Peace and Human Rights, Autonomous University of Barcelona

http://www.unescocat.org/catedang.html

Submitted by Daniel Luz. Awaiting translation.

Instituto de la Paz y los Conflictos, Universidad de Granada

http://www.ugr.es/~eirene/

Contact: Francisco A. Muñoz, eirene@goliat.ugr.es

Awaiting translation.

UNESCO Chair on Peace and Development

Universitat Jaume I y Fundacion Caja Castello

www.unesco.org/human_rights/hrana.htm

Submission to the study describes existing programs, including Masters in Peace and Development, and a Doctorate Program entitled Peace, Conflict and Democracy, carried out in collaboration with University of Granada. Other activities include organizing seminars and conferences at the Bancaja International Center for Peace and Development. Further research projects and the publication of articles in academic journals enhance intellectual exchange. Universities for Peace symposium was held here in December 2000. International projects inform part of the overall remit to enhance mutual understanding across cultures, and the program of Communication for Peace takes this to a level of popular culture: raising awareness through radio productions, initiating a reconciliation project in the former Yugoslavia, and “The employment of any media content that contributes to transmitting and promoting a global culture of peace.”

SRI LANKA

Regional Centre for Strategic Studies

http://www.rcss.org

Contacts: Major General (Retd) Dipankar Banerjee (Executive Director); Sugeeswara P Senadhira (Associate Director)

The Centre conducts research on a range of security-related issues, including projects on “Small Arms and Light Weapons Proliferation” and “Non-Traditional Security Issues.” They focus on the destabilizing effects that small arms and other weapons have had on the development of conflict in South and Southeast Asia, in the hopes of creating a security system less dependent on the military. The Centre held a five day small arms workshop in Sri Lanka in June 2000 with the support of the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs. The Centre is also concerned with “problems of conventional defence build-up & proliferation of nuclear weapons” in South Asia, and aims to “promote interaction among scholars and other professionals in this region and beyond engaged in South Asian strategic and international studies.”

SWEDEN

Department of Peace & Conflict Research

Uppsala University (Uppsala, Sweden)

http://www.peace.uu.se/

Contact: Peter Wallensteen, director, info@pcr.uu.se

Established in 1971 to conduct research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. At present some 200 to 300 students are enrolled every academic year. “The training offered includes an undergraduate and a Ph.D. program as well as an advanced program and special seminars…The teaching offered often reflects recent research or ongoing projects.” Today, the research activities seem to fall into two broad areas: first, the origins and dynamics of conflict, and second, conflict resolution and international security issues. In addition, there is considerable general work, including analysis of peace research itself as well as production of research-based educational materials.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

http://www.sipri.org/

Contact: sipri@sipri.org

Perhaps best known for its authoritative yearbook on armaments, disarmament and international security, this research institute has a number of current projects of direct relevance to the UN working group. Its goal is to “conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stable peace.” SIPRI has traditionally concentrated on questions of armaments, disarmament and arms control, and in recent years it has broadened its agenda to include conflict-prevention, management and resolution issues, especially peacekeeping and regional studies.

SWITZERLAND

Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and The University of Zurich

http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/about/about_us/about_us.htm

Contact: postmaster@sipo.gess.ethz.ch

Specializes in research, teaching and information – the center maintains a pair of electronic information services, the International Relations and Security Network (http://www.isn.ethz.ch/) and the Information Management System for Mine Action (http://www.imsma.ethz.ch/), seeking to collect and disseminate security and arms control information. The center employs 75 people working full-time on these information services.

Peace and Governance Programme, United Nations University

http://www.unu.edu/png.html

Contact:. Ramesh Thakur, Peace and Global Governance Programme, Vice-RectorP&G@hq.unu.edu

Designed to be a think-tank for the United Nations system and to “bridge between the United Nations and the international academic community,” the UNU runs a peace program that conducts research in issues relevant to the operation of the United Nations. It is intended to reflect “the increasing shift in attention from 'national security' with its focus on military defense of the state, to 'human security' with its emphasis on the individual's well-being.”

UKRAINE

National Institute for Strategic Studies (DB NISS)

http://www.niss.gov.ua

Submitted by DB NISS staff. Governmental research body which specializes in issues of arms control, disarmament, nonproliferation and export control. In 1991, when Ukraine gained its independence, DB NISS was established to formulate “modalities of getting rid of nuclear weapons and strategic arms in Ukraine [and] developing the principles of Ukraine‚s joining the MTRC.” Also supports NGOs by helping to establish Ukrainian Pugwash and organizing discussions about the nuclear weapons free zone in Central and Eastern Europe. Provided analytical and informational support to START 1 process and support for strengthening the ABM Treaty. While practical disarmament measures are the Institute’s forte, there is the desire to develop more formal‚ educational programs, and the offer to assist in the development of disarmament and nonproliferation education as a source of knowledge to any study or course development.

UNITED KINGDOM

Department of Peace Studies, Bradford University

http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/

Submitted by Prof. Owen Greene. Submission to the study describes existing programmes that constitute “substantial teaching relating to disarmament and nonproliferation education at the BA, MA and PhD level”. Enrollment consists of approximately 180 undergraduates, 80 MA students, and 40 PhD students. Later submission includes a paper on small arms in Argentina by Dr. William Godnick.

Centre for Defence Studies

King’s College, University of London

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/rel/cds/

Contact: Ms. Jenny Smith, Administrator, Jen.Smith@kcl.ac.uk

Actively involved in teaching, research, policy advice and training on a wide variety of security-related issues. Of particular relevance are the Centre’s programs on “Technology and Arms Control” and “Perspectives on Security.”

Centre for Defence and International Security Studies (CDISS)

Lancaster University

http://www.cdiss.org/

Contact: PaulineElliott, Executive Secretary, p.ellioty@lancaster.ac.uk

CDISS was established in 1990 through the merger of two of Lancaster University's research institutions: The Centre for Defence and Security Analysis and the Centre for the Study of Arms Control and International Security. Today it carries on research and teaching in a number of areas related to disarmament and non-proliferation, including, “The United Nations and Arms Control,” “European Security and Defence Manufacturing,” “Missile Threats and Responses,” and “Defence Technology.”

Department of International Relations

University of St. Andrews, Scotland

http://www.st-and.ac.uk/academic/intrel/

Submitted by Prof. William Walker. Brief submission describes classes devised by Prof. Walker including an annual 12 week honors course entitled “The International Politics of Nuclear Weapons.” Another course he teaches is called “Weapons of Mass Destruction in International Politics.” He ends the description of his work with an invitation for students to apply to do doctoral research on nuclear issues under his supervision.

University of Southampton

http://www.prospectus.soton.ac.uk/subpages/PO.html

Contact: Dr Darryl Howlett, Senior Lecturer dh@socsci.soton.ac.uk

The Department of Politics offers undergraduate and post-graduate education in arms control and disarmament. The bachelor's course includes a third year option on International Security and the MSc/Diploma includes options on arms control and disarmament. Dr Darryl Howlett also offers doctoral supervision in arms control and disarmament topics. In addition, Professor of International Relations John Simpson (j.simpson@soton.ac.uk) has had many doctoral students in arms control and nuclear non-proliferation.

The Post-War Reconstruction & Development Unit (PRDU)

University of York, Derwent College

http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/poli/prdu

Contact: prdu@york.ac.uk

A program specializing in the “research, consultancy and training of professionals in issues of management and planning of reconstruction after war, humanitarian intervention in complex emergencies, and post-war recovery.” Also offers an MA in Post-war Recovery Studies. Affiliated with similar centers in Croatia, Jordan and Lebanon.

UNITED STATES

Air Force Institute for National Security Studies

http://www.usafa.af.mil/inss/

Submitted by Major Brent J. Talbot. Submission to the study describes course entitled “The Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” and includes course syllabus. This is an annual course with admission of 7-12 students. Also attached is a power point presentation stating the overall aims of the Institute.

Department of Peace Studies, Chapman University

http://www.chapman.edu/wilkinson/socsci/peace_studies/catalog.html

Contact: Donald Will, Program Director, will@chapman.edu