About the Center for Global Security (CGS)
The CGS mission...is to address the full range of global security issues by probing the impact of economic, social, institutional and environmental conditions that affect regional stability and global security. We emphasize non-proliferation due to its consequence for global security.
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The Pacific Northwest Center for Global Security (CGS) supports education, outreach, partnerships, and innovative policy analysis for clients that responds to the changing security conditions of the post-cold war world. These policy activities are intended to bring Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) science and technology capabilities to bear on global security problems.The CGS policy work covers traditional security issues such as arms control, treaty monitoring and verification, and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction, materials, and expertise. Its emphasis is on multidimensional policy analysis to develop a better understanding of the underlying impacts of the causes of national, regional, and global security problems. The two approaches are depicted by the following graphic:
Key Center Activities
The CGS promotes Global Security through four activity areas: education; outreach within the Laboratory and with the public; partnering with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academia and industry; and designing and implementing innovative policy analysis projects for its clients.Innovative Policy Projects
The CGS draws on the full staff and resources of PNNL and its strategic partners including universities and NGOs to execute global security policy work for the U.S. government and other clients.Outreach
CGS sponsors enlivening discussions with technical experts, policy makers, and the general public on nonproliferation and other global security topics. Our outreach is conducted through conferences and seminars, a newsletter, and this website.Education
CGS partners with universities and other organizations to educate the next generation of specialists in the technical and policy dimensions of nonproliferation and other security problems. The flagship educational effort by the Center is the Institute for Global and Regional Security Studies (IGRSS), which it co-directs with the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. IGRSS is successfully preparing staff for Lab and NNSA employment. Currently, IGRSS has six courses offered including Arms Control, Nonproliferation and International Law; Russian View of Nonproliferation; Weapons of Mass Destruction; International Trade and Security. IGRSS is building nonproliferation course curricula with Fudan University and Tsinghua University in China with support of U.S. NNSA.Partnering
The Center partners with universities such as the University of Washington, nongovernmental organizations such as the National Bureau of Asian Research and foreign governments and international organizations to produce multi-disciplinary security policy work for its clients.Carol Kessler, CGS Center Director
Carol Kessler came to the Center in 2003 from Paris, France where she had been the Deputy Director General of the Nuclear Energy Agency of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Prior to that she spent 15 years in the U.S. Department of State. She has an M.S. in National Security Policy from the U.S. National War College, an M.S. in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an AB from Brown University in Bio-geology. Contact Us Ms. Kessler can be reached through her assistant, Amy Woodbury, at 206-528-3233 (fax: 206-528-3552) or via email. For questions or comments regarding this website, contact the CGS webmaster via email. Note that all links to sites external to this one open in a separate browser window and are marked on our site with a slightly smaller version of this image: