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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Latest News

Global: "Hunger season" neglected

Date: 03 Jul 2009Source: Integrated Regional Information Networks

Global: "Hunger season" neglected
Colombia: New displacement continue

Date: 03 Jul 2009Source: Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, Norwegian Refugee Council

Colombia: New displacement continue
Darfur Rebels Sign Deal with Opposition Party

Darfur rebels signed an accord with one of Sudan's main opposition parties in Cairo on Wednesday, agreeing to push for a new transitional government, both sides said on Friday, a move that will infuriate

Khartoum. The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), which attacked Khartoum last year, and the opposition Umma party told Reuters the deal was a 'declaration of principles' and shared ideas and did not

amount to a political or military alliance.

Darfur Rebels Sign Deal with Opposition Party
Cleric: British Embassy Staff to Be Tried

A top Iranian cleric said Friday that some of the detained Iranian staffers of the British Embassy in Tehran will be put on trial, and he accused Britain of a role in instigating widespread protests that erupted over

the country's disputed presidential election. The announcement by Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati alarmed European nations and fueled calls for tougher action against Tehran. Britain is pressing for members of the

European Union to pull their ambassadors out of Tehran to protest the arrest of its embassy staffers last week -- a step that the EU so far has hesitated to take.

Cleric: British Embassy Staff to Be Tried
US Forces Settle into Taliban Heartland

The U.S.-led push to confront militants and win-over local Afghans in the Taliban-controlled south continued Friday, with troops moving into more remote villages. Some 4,000 U.S. Marines and several hundred

Afghan forces are taking up positions in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province - a remote militant stronghold that has largely resisted central government control. Troops reportedly met only isolated pockets of

resistance as they set up outposts and sought out local civilian leaders.

US Forces Settle into Taliban Heartland
UN Chief Demands Release of Suu Kyi

Ban Ki Moon, the UN Secretary-General, asked the leader of Burmese junta to release the detained democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, today but was refused the chance to meet her in an unpromising start to

an important two-day visit. In a risky move, which will be denounced by human rights groups if it fails to achieve results, Mr Ban travelled to Naypyidaw, the junta's remote new capital, to meet General Than Shwe.

UN Chief Demands Release of Suu Kyi
US Drone Attacks Said to Kill 17

Missile attacks believed to be carried out by U.S. drone aircraft today targeted a training center and a communications base run by one of Pakistan's most wanted militant leaders, killing 17 people and injuring 27

others. The attacks in South Waziristan, where Taliban leader Baitullah Mahsud and his fighters have entrenched themselves in tribal areas along the Afghan border, come just a week after Mahsud narrowly

escaped a drone attack on a funeral attended by Taliban militants. Dozens were killed in that strike. U.S.

US Drone Attacks Said to Kill 17
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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.

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