• 2024-04-03 - JOIN WEBINAR Meeting ID: 884 4896 5668 Password: ACDIS Abstract: This seminar discusses the vision, mission, core functions, and priorities of the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Threat Reduction and Arms Control. In doing so we will highlight the work my...
  • 2024-04-03 - JOIN US FOR A IN PERSON DISCUSSION AT COBLE HALL 101. Please sign up for the one on one discussion with John Erath or Connor Murray: CLICK HERE Feel free to discuss about how to look for a job with an international relations/international security...
  • 2022 Jeremiah D. Sullivan Lecture: "The Growing Danger of Nuclear Weapons and How We Can Reduce It” presented by Professor Frederick Lamb on Thursday May 5th, 2022 from 6-7pm in Loomis Room 144. Click here for PDF flyer. This lecture will be available on Zoom https://illinois....
  • Join ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' joint seminar series on security.  This Thursday April 7, 2022 at 6pm virtually on Zoom, Dr. Clifford Singer will present, "Climate Change and Security in Europe" Abstract: A comparatively simple integrated assessment model is used to examine economic impacts of an EU commitment in 2021 to achieving zero net CO 2...
  • Teach-in: The Military Situation in Ukraine and its Implications for Nuclear Security and Safety Thursday, March 31, 2022 | 4:00pm-5:30pm CDT For a PDF poster, click here Speakers: Professor Nicholas Grossman, Political Science. Professor Tomasz Kozlowski, NPRE. Professor Frederick Lamb, Physics...
  • Join ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' joint seminar series on security.  This Thursday March 24, 2022 at 6pm virtually on Zoom, Dr. Kiran Lakkaraju and Dr. Andrew Reddie will present, "Experimental Wargaming Methods for Studying Deterrence in Hypothetical Escalation Scenarios." Abstract: Wargames are increasingly being developed...
  • Click here for PDF The Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS) is an interdisciplinary venture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates objective research, academics, and outreach about international security issues within the academic and policymaking communities. ACDIS integrates insights generated by...
  • COLLEGE PARK, MD, February 9, 2022 — The capabilities of US systems intended to defend against the nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that North Korea may have or could obtain are currently low and will likely continue to be low for the next 15 years, according to a new technical ...
  • Certain courses from the Undergraduate Certificate in Global Security have been retired from the University's course catalog and thus the Certificate course list. Any student to previously complete a retired course is still eligible to use it towards the certificate. Legacy Course List: CHLH/ENVS/PATH 474: Principles of Epidemiology CS 460/ECE 419: Security Laboratory AE...
  • The National Acadamies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine is holding an online open session of the Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War & Nuclear Terrorism on April 21 and 23 from 1:00pm to 5:00pm EST. More information about the study can be found here....
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  • Read full story to view a video recording of ACDIS Core Faculty Member Dr. Frederick Lamb giving a talk about the vulnerability of near-earth space.
  • Speaker: Colleen Murphy, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Just war theory offers ethical guidance on how and why war should be fought. It provides criteria to distinguish just from unjust wars. International humanitarian law offers guidance on legal and illegal conduct in war, and the crime of aggression defines when...
  • Speaker: Andrew Wyatt Nelson, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Center for Global Security and Cooperation Andrew Nelson is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff in the Global Chemical and Biological Security (GCBS) program at Sandia National Laboratories. Currently, he works to promote world peace though practical and innovative solutions that...
  • ACDIS and Sandia National Laboratories' hosted a joint security seminar series during Spring 2023 Join Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 846 3131 8462 Password: ACDIS "Impact of violence on the population in Yemen" Speaker: Dr. J...