The Centre for Security and Defence Studies (CSDS) is an institution working on on security and defence issues in the Ottawa community and across Canada.
The CSDS has three principal and inter-related missions:
- to enhance interdisciplinary graduate and undergraduate teaching at Carleton University in the fields of international conflict analysis and defence and security studies
- to promote research and publications by faculty, graduate students and outside specialists in these fields, with emphasis on policy and security issues for Canada
- to support outreach activities with the Parliament of Canada, government departments and agencies, school boards, the media, NGOs and international organisations through training programmes, professional conferences, and public discourse on international security and defence issues
Its website offers access to:
- events organised bu the CSDS
- security-related news
- information on the four modules of research pursued by the CSDS:
- force and statecraft
- partnering, peacekeeping and peacebuilding
- military and society
- intelligence and policy
- publications: includes occasional papers, conference proceedings and reports
- security and defence related links