ACTIVITIES / PROGRAMS

NPS is one of the nation’s premier graduate schools for providing tailored, directly applicable strategic and regional academic studies. Combining world class professors, US and foreign military officers and governmental representatives, NPS offers a unique, international environment for focusing on global affairs. Additionally, NPS is the only accredited graduate institution responsible for providing education to our NATO friends and allies in a program called Partnership for Peace (PfP).

CSRS provides a variety of educational programs utilizing NPS faculty and outside Subject Matter Experts. These programs include:

Educational Games

Games create a learning environment in which participants gain experience and an understanding of complex issues through role-playing and structured interaction.

Combining structured interaction with individual experience and flexibility, games enhance the ability of participants to manage real world S&R activities and aid scholars in researching and publishing on S&R activities.

Click here for details about the 2005 Summer Game "Humanitarian Operations During Conflict."

Short Courses

CSRS short courses focus on a variety of issues related to stabilization and reconstruction such as civil-military relations, Demobilization, Disarmament and Reintegration (DD&R) and Anti-corruption. Short courses can be conducted in-residence at the NPS campus or elsewhere through mobile education teams (METs).

Applied Research

NPS is a world-class nexus for learning and knowledge which greatly facilitates practical, academic research. CSRS will be conducting a variety of research projects addressing issues important to the stabilization and reconstruction community.

Outreach

Designed to increase knowledge and awareness between the diverse groups involved in S&R activities, outreach activities include academic conferences, educational workshops, symposia and meetings.

"Humanitarian Roles in Insecure Environments” (Jan. 13 – 14, 2005, Washington, DC) was a CSRS co-sponsored event that brought together military officers, NGO representatives and government planners to explore challenges to humaniarian activities in conflict zones.

Click here for upcoming CSRS educational events.

“In today's increasingly interconnected world, weak and failed states pose an acute risk to U.S. and global security. Indeed, they present one of the most important foreign policy challenges of the contemporary era."

--Carlos Pascual