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

OPT/Gaza: UN Expert denounces seizure of aid boat by Israeli forces

Date: 02 Jul 2009Source: UN Human Rights Council

OPT/Gaza: UN Expert denounces seizure of aid boat by Israeli forces
Côte d'Ivoire : les impératifs de sortie de crise - Rapport ICG

Date: 02 Jul 2009Source: International Crisis Group

Côte d'Ivoire : les impératifs de sortie de crise - Rapport ICG
Sudan: Tools and seed for a better future

Date: 02 Jul 2009Source: ICRC

Sudan: Tools and seed for a better future
Fighting Kills Seven, Injures More Than 30

Fighting in the Somali capital has killed 25 people over two days, leaving corpses in the streets of a city where a bloody insurgency is intensifying, doctors and witnesses said Thursday. The fighting in Mogadishu

started late Wednesday and continued into Thursday in residential areas. On Wednesday, at least 10 people were killed and 40 wounded. Thursday's fighting killed about 15 people and wounded 30, hospitals

reported. The government and rebels who want to install an Islamic state in the east African country blame each other for instigating the violence.

Fighting Kills Seven, Injures More Than 30
Suicide Bomber Targets Govt Workers

A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle blew himself up alongside a government bus on a busy road in Rawalpindi on Thursday afternoon, the latest in a spate of attacks following the Pakistani army's military

offensive against the Taliban. The initial reports of the death toll from the blast, which occurred about 4:15 p.m. along a main road in the city that houses the Pakistani military headquarters, ranged from one to six

people killed, with as many as 30 people injured, according to police.

Suicide Bomber Targets Govt Workers
IDF, Gunmen Clash in Gaza

Palestinian sources in the Gaza Strip say that a Palestinian woman was killed and a baby was apparently wounded as result of IDF artillery fire. At least 11 people sustained wounds in the incident according to the

report. Meanwhile, IDF officials say troops fired mortar shells at Palestinians who shot at them south of the Gaza Strip's Karni Crossing. At this time, the IDF said it is unaware of any Palestinian casualties.

According to the Palestinian report, the incident took place near the Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, as IDF troops clashed with Palestinian gunmen.

IDF, Gunmen Clash in Gaza
Massive US Offensive Targets Taliban

The U.S. military in Afghanistan launched a major offensive in Taliban-controlled parts of southern Afghanistan Thursday, the first such operation under U.S. President Barack Obama's revamped strategy to

defeat an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency. Thousands of U.S.

Massive US Offensive Targets Taliban
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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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