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Whenever policy challenges require technical solutions to promoting
cooperation among nations, IGCC expressly involves the University of California-managed Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National
Laboratories in its projects. In regional cooperation dialogues,
teaching seminars, and nuclear weapons policy conferences, technical
specialists from the labs learn about regional policymaking and UC
faculty learn about the role of technology in building peace.
Lab participants have played integral roles in IGCC's Northeast
Asia Cooperation Dialogues, Middle East Arms Control
Workshops, and the Wired for Peace project. Participants
in the New Nuclear Agenda, a 2001 joint project of IGCC and
the national laboratories, explored the nonproliferation regime, how
the end of the Cold War has changed deterrence, and the new roles and
threats posed by weapons of mass destruction. An important part of
that new agenda was the realization that there was a need to train a
new generation of academics, analysts, and experts about weapons of
mass destruction. In that light, in 2002 IGCC sought and won a $2.9
million NSF IGERT grant for its innovative program,
Public Policy and Nuclear Threats:
Training the Next Generation. This multicampus effort brings
together scholars from eight UC campuses and the national
laboratories to train a new generation of nuclear policy experts. The success of the PPNT model has led IGCC to use it as a template for training on biological threats. The IGCC program Public Policy and Biological Threats is now in its fourth year. Lab personnel participated in the initial planning workshop, and several have been speakers at the annual summer training seminar.
An April 2002 workshop at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL) brought together social scientists, technical computer science
experts, and members of government, industry, and the national labs
for Security in the Information Technology Age. Issues bearing
directly on the provision of security in the information age include
the implications of the information revolution for deterrence; crisis
management and warfare; the problems that information warfare raises
for democratic accountability; and the roles and responsibilities of
the public and private sectors for providing security in the
information age. The topic provided a unique intersection of IGCC
research concerns, as it touched on both international security
issues and the rapid societal changes being brought about by the
"cyber revolution." The workshop was an innovative collaboration, co-
sponsored by IGCC, the Center for Global Security Research at LLNL,
the Center for Security Studies and Conflict Resolution of the Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology, and the Joint Center for
International and Security Studies at UC Davis.
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