PROGRAM ON GLOBAL SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
Grants Authorized 2005

The Foundation supports projects and institutions that address threats and dangers posed by the world’s most dangerous weapons, including nuclear and biological weapons. Grantmaking is designed to impact public policy in order to help reduce arsenals and stockpiles, destroy or safeguard weapons materials, curb proliferation, and promote new approaches to cooperative security, especially in Asia. Through its Science, Technology, and Security Initiative, the Foundation seeks to strengthen independent scientific and technical advice available to policymakers. Support is provided to nine university centers in this initiative at Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Harvard, Kings College, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and the University of Illinois Urbana.

POLICY RESEARCH

Aspen Institute, Washington, D.C.
$150,000 in support of a conference examining the future of China’s foreign and security policy and the East Asian security situation.

Aspen Institute Congressional Program, Washington, D.C.
$1,500,000 in support of the Congressional Program (over three years).

Beihang University, School of Astronautics, Beijing, China
$92,000 in support of technical research on space debris and other risks to spacecraft and satellites (over two years).

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, D.C.
$200,000 in support of the Non-Proliferation Project’s activities to promote a new international nonproliferation strategy.

Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, Washington, D.C.
$450,000 in support of policy research and outreach to reduce the dangers associated with nuclear, biological, and space weapons (over three years).

Center for National Policy, Washington, D.C.
$250,000 in support of a project to inform and engage Congress on reducing the risks posed by global stores of fissile material (over two years).

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, Washington, D.C.
$250,000 in support of budget research and analysis on national spending to reduce the dangers associated with nuclear, biological, and space weapons (over two years).

Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, D.C.
$300,000 in support of the educational briefings of the Congressional Proliferation Prevention Forum (over three years).

City College, New York, New York
$100,000 in support of scholarship and analysis of the United Nations Secretary-General’s contributions to international peace and security during the term of Kofi Annan through the organization and publishing of his papers.

College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
$56,000 to identify new directions in foreign policy research that address major challenges to international peace and security.

Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York
$525,000 in support of research and outreach to reduce the dangers associated with nuclear weapons and technology (over three years).

George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, D.C.
$200,000 in support of policy research on federal budget priorities for promoting national and international security (over two years).

George Washington University, Space Policy Institute, Washington, D.C.
$175,000 to bring international perspectives on space security to the attention of U.S. policymakers (over two years).

Henry L. Stimson Center, Washington, D.C.
$300,000 in support of a project to educate, inform, and engage policymakers on cooperative efforts to secure and eliminate nuclear and biological weapons (over two years).

International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, United Kingdom
$300,000 in support of transatlantic cooperation to prevent nuclear proliferation (over two years).

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Security Studies Program, Cambridge, Massachusetts
$150,000 in support of policy research on federal budget priorities for promoting national and international security (over two years).

Monterey Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California
$200,000 to assess nuclear proliferation dangers posed by non-state actors.

Philanthropy Roundtable, Washington, D.C.
$10,000 in support of an educational workshop on strategies to reduce international terrorism.

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey
$50,000 in support of a workshop to develop the concept of an International Panel on Fissile Material.

$2,200,000 in support of an independent International Panel on Fissile Materials (over five years).

Stanford University, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, California
$400,000 in support of the Project on Peace and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific Region (over two years). siis.stanford.edu

U.S. Pugwash, Washington, D.C.
$68,000 to translate and make available analytic and opinion pieces on international security and weapons of mass destruction issues to Arabic and Farsi-speaking audiences (over two years). 

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND SECURITY

Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Engineering and Public Policy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
$2,000,000 to support research on national and international security problems of a scientific and technical nature (over five years).

Center for Media and Security, Millwood, New York
$143,000 for the project Science, Technology and Security Policy: Enhancing Media and Public Understanding (over two years).

China Arms Control and Disarmament Association, Beijing, China
$100,000 to support policy research on efforts to control and limit the spread of biological weapons (over two years).

China Foundation for International and Strategic Studies, Beijing, China
$100,000 in support of research by Chinese technical and policy experts on non-state proliferation networks (over two years).

City University of New York, New York, New York
$50,000 in support of a conference examining the role of university scholarship in promoting public understanding of terrorism and responses to terrorism.

Cornell University, Peace Studies Program, Ithaca, New York
$1,860,000 in support of training and research on security issues with a scientific and technical dimension (over five years).

Darmstadt University of Technology, Interdisciplinary Research Group, Science Technology and Security, Darmstadt, Germany
$88,000 to organize a research network on technologies to detect nuclear material production.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta, Georgia
$1,840,000 in support of the project to train a new generation of scientists and engineers in technical research and policy analysis of security issues (over five years).

Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Beijing, China
$200,000 in support of technical discussions between scientists from China, the United States, and other countries on major security issues (over three years).

Landau Network-Centro Volta Centro Di Cultura Scientifica Alessandro Volta, Como, Italy
$150,000 in support of nuclear confidence-building measures and threat reduction efforts in South Asia (over three years).

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on International Security and Arms Control, Washington, D.C.
$975,000 in support of technical studies and international dialogue aimed at reducing the dangers posed by nuclear and biological weapons (over three years).

Peking University, School of International Studies, International Security Program, Beijing, China
$150,000 in support of training and research on science and security issues in the International Security Program (over two years).

Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton, New Jersey
$2,250,000 in support of research, training, and collaboration with independent analysts worldwide on issues at the intersection of science, technology, and security (over five years).

Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Rome, Italy
$525,000 in support of a website and publications on the control and elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and for maintaining communications among scientists worldwide on regional and international security (over three years).

Tsinghua University, Institute of International Studies, Beijing, China
$120,000 in support of the journal Science of International Politics (over two years).

$250,000 in support of training and research on science and security issues in the Arms Control Program (over three years).

U.S. Pugwash, Washington, D.C.
$225,000 in support of a website and publications on the control and elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and for maintaining communications among scientists worldwide on regional and international security (over three years).

University of California, Berkeley, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, Berkeley, California
$85,000 in support of a workshop and outreach activities to develop community-wide standards in the field of synthetic biology to ensure responsible development and minimize the potential for accidents or terrorism.

University of Georgia Foundation, Athens, Georgia
$125,000 in support of training and workshops in partnership with the China Arms Control and Disarmament Association (over two years).

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