International Peace and Security

Recent Grants

Asia Security Initiative
Science and Technology Security Policy
New Approaches to Cooperative Security
Research and Engagement

Asia Security Initiative

Number of Grants: 28

Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
$350,000 to research the security implications of climate change in South Asia (over two years). (2010)

Center for Strategic & International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 to support policy research on international cooperation to respond to internal security challenges in Asia. (2009)

Centre for Security Analysis (Chennai, India)
$500,000 to support policy research on internal conflict in South Asia (over three years). (2009)

Council on Foreign Relations (New York, New York)
$400,000 to support policy research on security challenges on China's periphery (over two years). (2010)

Dalpino, Catharin (Washington, D.C.)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2010)

Dalpino, Catharin (Washington, D.C.)
$10,000 to support blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

East Asia Institute (Seoul, South Korea)
$450,000 to support a policy research project on East Asia's Changing Regional Security Architecture and South Korea's Foreign Policy. (2011)

Feng, Zhu (Beijing, China)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2010)

Feng, Zhu (Beijing, China)
$10,000 to support blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support policy research on shifts in power and identity in Asia (over three years). (2009)

Harris, Tobias (Somerville, Massachusetts)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

Institute of International Education (New York, New York)
$50,000 to develop an implementation plan for an Asia Security Initiative Emerging Leaders program. (2010)

Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (New Delhi, India)
$450,000 to support policy research on Sino-Indian relations (over three years). (2009)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, United Kingdom)
$250,000 in support of the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of officials and non-governmental experts on security challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. (2011)

International Institute for Strategic Studies-US (Washington, D.C.)
$120,000 in support of the 2009-2011 Asia Security Summits (the Shangri-La Dialogue) and research on how small and medium powers in the Asia-Pacific are responding diplomatically and militarily to changes in power dynamics in the region (over three years). (2009)

Nanyang Technological University S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
$500,000 to support policy research on strategic security issues in the Asia-Pacific region. (2011)

Nanyang Technological University S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
$35,000 to support an event commemorating the launch of the Asia Security Initiative. (2009)

Peking University Center for International and Strategic Studies (Beijing, China)
$250,000 to support the Asia Security Initiative 2011 Annual Conference titled Rising Powers and World Order. (2011)

Peking University Center for International and Strategic Studies (Beijing, China)
$450,000 to support policy research on Asia-Pacific Regional Security Cooperation and U.S.-China Relations. (2011)

Rajagopalan, Swarna (Chennai, Tamil NaduIndia)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2010)

Rajagopalan, Swarna (Chennai, India)
$10,000 to support blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

Roul, Animesh (New Delhi, India)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2010)

Roul, Animesh (New Delhi, India)
$10,000 to support blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

Tsinghua University Institute of International Studies (Beijing, China)
$225,000 in support of the "China Journal of International Politics" (over three years). (2009)

University of Sydney Centre for International Security Studies (Sydney, Australia)
$400,000 to research relationships between food security and conflict in the Asia-Pacific (over two years). (2010)

Vatikiotis, Michael (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
$10,000 in support of blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2010)

Vatikiotis, Michael (Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
$10,000 to support blogging to advance the field of Asian security studies. (2009)

WGBH Educational Foundation Frontline (Boston, Massachusetts)
$100,000 in support of FRONTLINE/World reporting on Asian security issues. (2009)

Science and Technology Security Policy

Number of Grants: 8

Center for Arms Control, Energy and Environmental Studies (Moscow, Russia)
$165,109 to support a research and training program on Technical Aspects of Nuclear Disarmament and Nonproliferation (over three years). (2009)

Center for Policy Studies in Russia - PIR Center (Moscow, Russia)
$600,000 to support policy research and advanced training in the field of nuclear security (over two years). (2010)

College of William and Mary (Williamsburg, Virginia)
$15,000 to support the policy research project, The Proliferation Paradox: Why Efforts to Reduce the Number of Nuclear States May Backfire. (2009)

Council on Foreign Relations (New York, New York)
$200,000 to research and identify politically and technically viable options for limiting uranium enrichment in Iran and other countries. (2009)

Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$800,000 in support of Managing the Atom, an interdisciplinary program of research and training to strengthen scientific advice on international security policy matters (over 18 months). (2009)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology Program in Science, Technology, and Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$500,000 to support an interdisciplinary program of research and training to strengthen scientific advice on international security policy (over 22 months). (2009)

Union of Concerned Scientists (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$250,000 to support activities to provide policymakers and the public with scientific information and analysis related to nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, missile defense and international space policy (over 22 months). (2009)

University of Maryland Foundation (Adelphi, Maryland)
$350,000 to support the Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security Program at the Center for International Security Studies. (2010)

New Approaches to Cooperative Security

Number of Grants: 2

Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.)
$175,000 to promote a cooperative nonproliferation environment in the Middle East. (2009)

Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton, New Jersey)
$225,000 to support joint U.S.-China research on the security challenges posted by dual-use biotechnology (over two years). (2010)

Research and Engagement

Number of Grants: 40

Arms Control Association (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 to support education and outreach activities to reduce the dangers posed by nuclear weapons (over three years). (2009)

Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.)
$450,000 to support the Geopolitics and Scarcity: Energy and Resource Competition Among the Major and Rising Powers project (over two years). (2010)

Brookings Institution (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support a policy research and engagement project The Brookings Project on Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, and Disarmament. (2009)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago, Illinois)
$125,000 to support an international conference entitled, Leadership and the Future of Nuclear Energy, with a focus on nuclear security. (2011)

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Chicago, Illinois)
$250,000 to provide information to policymakers and the public on nuclear weapons, nuclear energy, climate change and bioterrorism and foster informed dialogue on solutions to such global risks. (2010)

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Washington, D.C.)
$600,000 to support research and workshops promoting the safe and secure development of nuclear power (over three years). (2011)

Center for Strategic & International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
$800,000 to support the Sustainable Nuclear Futures project (over three years). (2010)

Citizens to Stop Nuclear Terrorism (Richmond, Virginia)
$25,000 in support of a project titled, Business Initiative on Nuclear Terrorism, to educate U.S. business leaders on the threat from nuclear terrorism and the need for policies and actions to prevent it. (2010)

City College 21st Century Foundation (New York, New York)
$17,000 to support scholarship and analysis of the contributions to international peace and security during the term of Kofi Annan through the organization and publishing of his papers. (2009)

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs (New York, New York)
$100,000 to support the Gulf/2000 project (over two years). (2011)

Fund for Peace (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 to support the Threat Convergence project which aims to prevent nuclear terrorism by strengthening official, private sector, and civil society capacity to combat trafficking in Southeast Asia and the Black Sea/Caucasus regions (over two years). (2011)

George Mason University Department of Environmental Science and Policy (Fairfax, Virginia)
$160,000 to deepen understanding of issues associated with the 'back-end' of the nuclear fuel cycle and to inform the work of the President's Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (over two years). (2010)

Harvard University Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
$2,200,000 to support advanced training on nuclear security (over four years). (2011)

Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.)
$300,000 in support of general operations. (2010)

Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, D.C.)
$650,000 to support a research project titled, South Asia's Nuclear Future (over three years). (2010)

Institute for Science and International Security (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 to assess cases of illicit nuclear trade and determine effective ways to combat nuclear smuggling (over two years). (2009)

International Council for the Life Sciences (Washington, D.C.)
$250,000 to underwrite an interdisciplinary international forum that promotes biosecurity and biosafety standards and helps to assess biological risks to international security from the misuse of the life sciences (over one year). (2009)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, United Kingdom)
$535,000 to support a policy research project titled, Fostering Cooperation with China on Nuclear and Radiological Security (over two years). (2010)

International Institute for Strategic Studies (London, United Kingdom)
$250,000 to support cooperation to prevent nuclear proliferation and foster progress toward nuclear disarmament (over two years). (2009)

Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies/U.S.-Korea Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$270,000 to provide independent expert advice and information relevant to the 2012 Seoul Nuclear Security Summit (over two years). (2011)

Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies/U.S.-Korea Institute (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 to support a policy research project to improve understanding of the constraints on spent fuel storage in South Korea. (2010)

King's College London Department of War Studies (London, United Kingdom)
$1,650,000 to train the next generation of experts in the field of nuclear security (over four years). (2011)

Meiji University (Tokyo, Japan)
$60,000 to assess dry-cask storage alternatives to reprocessing spent fuel at Japan's Rokkasho plant. (2011)

Middlebury College//Monterey Institute of International Studies (Middlebury, Vermont)
$475,000 to support the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies program of education and training in the areas of nuclear nonproliferation and terrorism (over two years). (2010)

National Committee on American Foreign Policy (New York, New York)
$330,000 to support Track II Dialogues on Asia-Pacific Security (over two years). (2010)

Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, New York)
$500,000 to secure the global nuclear fuel cycle and verify the storage and elimination of U.S. and Russian tactical nuclear weapons (over two years). (2011)

Nautilus Institute (San Francisco, California)
$600,000 to develop alternative spent nuclear fuel management options in light of lessons learned from Japan's nuclear crisis (over three years). (2011)

Nonproliferation Policy Education Center (Arlington, Virginia)
$400,000 to support a policy research project titled, Nuclear Power Development We Can Live With: What International Security Requires (over two years). (2010)

Nuclear Threat Initiative (Washington, D.C.)
$1,000,000 in support of general operations (over two years). (2010)

Partnership for Global Security (Washington, D.C.)
$350,000 to foster the creation of a global nuclear material security architecture by helping develop its foundational elements and structure (over two years). (2011)

Ploughshares Fund (San Francisco, California)
$50,000 in support of the Peace and Security Funders Group (over two years). (2009)

Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
$1,200,000 in support of the project entitled, International Panel on Fissile Materials, whose aim is to reduce global stockpiles of nuclear materials and the locations in which they can be found (over three years). (2011)

Social Science Research Council (Brooklyn, New York)
$172,000 to support Track II dialogue with North Korea. (2010)

Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford, California)
$2,000,000 to train the next generation of experts in the field of nuclear security policy (over four years). (2011)

Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford, California)
$550,000 to support the Peace and Cooperation in the Asian-Pacific Region project (over three years). (2009)

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Solna, Sweden)
$500,000 to examine the implications of emerging military technologies for strategic stability and nuclear deterrence in the 21st Century (over two years). (2011)

Tides Center (San Francisco, California)
$150,000 to support a NGO-Summit on Nuclear Security, to be held in Washington D.C.. (2010)

Tides Center Connect U.S. Fund (Washington, D.C.)
$50,000 to strengthen collaboration among NGOs on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. (2010)

University of California at San Diego Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (La Jolla, California)
$50,000 to support the North Korean Economics Engagement Study Visit. (2011)

Woodstock Theological Center (Washington, D.C.)
$30,000 in support of a public forum, God and the Bomb: Deterrence, Disarmament and Human Security, to improve understanding of contemporary nuclear weapons policy choices and the Catholic Church's approach to them. (2010)