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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A police raid on the outskirts of Jakarta Tuesday may have killed one of Indonesia's most-wanted terrorists, though officials said they would await tests to verify the man's identity. Local media cited counterterrorism squad members saying that a shootout in Pamulang, Banten province, killed Dulmatin, a senior member of the al Qaeda-linked terror network Jemaah Islamiyah. But Indonesia's national police spokesman, Edward Aritonang, said he could not immediately confirm whether Dulmatin was dead until further testing. DNA test results were not expected soon.

A Christian organisation in Nigeria has accused government security forces of failing to stop hundreds being killed in clashes near the city of Jos. Hundreds died during attacks on three villages over the weekend in an area which straddles the country's mainly Christian south and Muslim north. The massacre is seen as revenge for a previous round of killings in January. The head of the northern area of Nigeria's Christian Association said he believed mercenaries were involved. He said that fighters from neighbouring Chad and Niger took part in the violence.

A major investigation has been launched into contracts awarded by coalition forces in Afghanistan that are worth hundreds of millions of pounds. The probe into construction and logistics contracts of the International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has been ordered by Major General Nick Carter, commander of Isaf forces in the south of the country. It is prompted by mounting concerns that the very money supposed to win over the hearts and minds of Afghans is ending up in the hands of the Taliban, drug lords or profiteers.

Bangladesh is waging a campaign of arbitrary arrest, illegal expulsion, forced internment and starvation against Muslim refugees from neighbouring Myanmar, according to a report released Tuesday. Tens of thousands of unregistered Rohingya refugees, many of whom have lived in Bangladesh for decades, have been forced into makeshift camps where they are being left to starve to death, the report by Physicians for Human Rights says. 'It is unconscionable to leave this vulnerable population stateless and starving,' said Richard Sollom, PHR director of research and investigations.

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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

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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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