The Security and Globalization Effects (SAGE) Initiative serves as a multidisciplinary institution to foster joint, inter-agency, and international cooperation in the area of civil-military relations. The SAGE Center’s cooperative programs aim to foster innovation, to nurture future leaders, and to promote conflict prevention and mitigation. A strategic-level collaborative educational initiative among U.S. institutions, and with international partners situated at key technological, humanitarian, economic, military and diplomatic hubs is intended to address issues of global transformation and stabilization, with new multinational and cross-sector approaches to developing economic models, risk management, technical innovations and social networks for peace building and global security.

Interdisciplinary Research

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SAGE Research on globalization effects and emerging environments – political, social, economic and physical:

  • non-state actors
  • resource scarcity
  • climate change
  • global economic shocks
  • social movement
  • cultural diffusion
  • global health
  • conflict transformation

Research Faculty provide analytic tools for security and development, reach-back to experts, scenario development, and field testing. Research areas include:

  • Strategic Collaboration
  • Human and Technical Networks
  • Metrics / Indicators
  • Strategic Communication
  • Modeling and Simulation

 

Education for Security

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SAGE Education offers online and residence graduate courses in support of the international community, peacekeeping capacity, and the promotion of global security.

  • NPS is a PfP Training Center
  • Cross-sector security and development practitioner focus

Certificate Development for accredited graduate-level programs:

  • Global change and governance
  • Security and development
  • Analytic methods
  • Cultural awareness

Partners and Comunity

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Partnerships

  • US Army Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute
  • Defense Language Institute
  • Top civilian programs
  • International partners

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Seventh Maritime Security Workshop 2009 - Call for Participation

This Security Workshop in Singapore on 15-17 July 2009 is the 7th in a series of Security meetings organized by Temasek Defence Systems Institute (TDSI), Singapore, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), USA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA. This year’s meeting will cover 7 research areas:

  • Maritime Security
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Free Electron Laser
  • Energy Security
  • Cyber Security
  • Application of Simulation In Learning
  • Application of Operations Research in Persistent Surveillance

**Deadline for applications extended to 4 May 2009 - see announcement, attached.  Please RSVP to Leo Tin Boon (tdsleotb@nus.edu.sg) with copy to Tom Huynh (thuynh@nps.edu)

Security Conference Planning Group

Here is a common place to share documents and prepare for the next Security Conference

Globalization and Maritime Security 2008 Workshop Report -Released-

Goals and Objectives for the Security Workshop

• Provide a forum to bring researchers and sponsors together to share research and education interests
related to maritime security & globalization effects.
• Better comprehend the systems in which crises emerge, in order to shift awareness from a response
mode to a more proactive, predictive mode.
• Identify leadership competencies required to facilitate these shifts and manage change in complex
environments.
• Establish support, sponsorship, and follow-on activities for research ideas generated.

Complex Operations Case Study Series Call for Participation

Scholars and practitioners interested and engaged in complex operations – stability operations, counterinsurgency and irregular warfare – are invited to submit short proposals to participate in the complex operations case study project. Those selected will be invited to contribute a case study for publication in the series, and to participate in a workshop on case teaching and writing in Washington, DC currently scheduled for September 27-30, 2009.

Complex Operations Case Study Workshop

Scholars and practitioners interested and engaged in complex operations – stability operations, counterinsurgency and irregular warfare – are invited to submit short proposals to participate in the complex operations case study project. Those selected will be invited to contribute a case study for publication in the series, and to participate in a workshop on case teaching and writing in Washington, DC September 27-30, 2009. The workshop requires little advanced preparation, as the focus is on building skills for teaching and writing, including the use of case method in the classroom.

Pan Pacific Hotel Info - Maritime Security Workshop - Singapore July 2009

See the attached information about the Pan Pacific Hotel, for the workshop in July. Reservation process:  Please download the reservation form from this URL and return it to the hotel:www.incose.org/symp2009/index.php All reservation at Pan Pacific Singapore must be received by the hotel by 29 June2009 (Singapore time). A block of rooms are sold on a first-come-first-served basissubject to availability.

Seventh Security Workshop 2009

Global SecurityThis Security Workshop in Singapore on 15-17 July 2009 is the 7th in a series of Security meetings organized by Temasek Defence Systems Institute (TDSI), Singapore, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), USA, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), USA. This year’s meeting will cover 7 research areas:

Irregular Warfare (IW) Analysis Working Group Meeting III

The TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC) hosts the third of three Irregular Warfare (IW) Modeling, Methodology, and Analysis Working Group (mMAWG) meetings at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA from 24 to 26 February 2009. Analysts from the Army, Marine Corps and Department of Defense will meet to finalize work.

The IW mMAWG goals are:

(1) Understand current capability of models, methods and tools to address senior leader decision issues in Irregular Warfare including what metrics are important.

Metrics Report - Measures of Progress in Conflict

Measuring Progress in Conflict Environments (MPICE) is a document designed to provide practitioners tools and a format for baseline assessment, diagnosis of stabilization challenges, and measures of progress from the point of international intervention.

Wired for War - Book Launch

"WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SCIENCE FICTION BECOMES BATTLEFIELD REALITY?"

WIRED FOR WAR
The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century

by P.W. Singer

More information about the event & RSVP at: http://crush3r.com/page/qraftompmz

Buy the Book Now at: http://tinyurl.com/6sm4mm

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