Sponsors
Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies
The Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism Studies was established in September 2005 to increase the understanding of terrorism, its causes, and its effects in order to help address the evolving terrorist threat. The Jebsen Center approaches the terrorist challenge through research programs, education, curriculum development, outreach, and policy guidance initiatives. Main research topics focus on three aspects of countering the terrorist threat: prediction, prevention, and preemption.
Conflict and Human Security Studies Program, USMA-West Point
The Conflict and Human Security Studies (CHSS) Program at the United States Military Academy, West Point presents both faculty members and cadets with various opportunities to increase their understanding of the roots of conflict using a human security perspective that sheds light on the comprehensive nature of security. The CHSS program helps provide this holistic and empathetic lens to better understand the security environment through lectures, conferences and seminars. The cornerstone of the CHSS program is the placement of cadets with NGOs and other organizations dealing with human security issues during the summer months.
Feinstein International Center
Established in 1996 as part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University, the Feinstein International Center carries out field-based research in complex emergency environments. These include Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Sri-Lanka, and many other areas affected by humanitarian crises.The Feinstein International Center's research--on the politics and policy of aiding the vulnerable, on protection and rights in crisis situations, and on the restoration of lives and livelihoods--feeds into both its teaching and its long-term partnerships with humanitarian and human rights agencies. Through publications, seminars, and confidential evidence-based briefings, the Feinstein International Center seeks to influence the making and application of policy in the countries affected by crises and in those states in a position to influence such crises.
Fletcher Institute for Human Security
Founded at The Fletcher School in 2000, the Institute for Human Security promotes cutting edge-research and education about the overlaps between humanitarianism, development, human rights, and conflict resolution. The Institute is resolutely interdisciplinary. All of its activities make a fundamental choice in favor of crossing academic and professional barriers. The Institute seeks to bridge these gaps by making research on human security operationally relevant through education, conferences, and fellowships for practitioners.
Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation
The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation is devoted to strengthening American democratic capitalism and the institutions, principles, and values that sustain and nurture it. Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, its programs support limited, competent government; a dynamic marketplace for economic, cultural activity; and a vigorous defense, at home and abroad, of American ideas and institutions.
SYNEXXUS, Inc. is a Northern Virginia-based company providing technical expertise and engineering support to the defense industry, space environment, intelligence community, and the commercial sector. As a total systems engineering company, SYNEXXUS is focused on three main lines of business: quantitative analysis of complex engineering systems; information architectures for small platforms; and technical solutions for emerging business challenges in the defense and commercial industries. SYNEXXUS uses real options solutions and social network analysis for enterprise-wide architectures, built on an open-networked framework that can readily adapt to the demands of 21st-century business practices.
