ARMS CONTROL, DISARMAMENT, AND INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

Faculty Director: Clifford E. Singer

Correspondence and Admission Information: Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security (ACDIS), 359 Armory Building, 505 East Armory Avenue, Champaign, IL 61820; E-mail: acdis@uiuc.edu

URL: www.acdis.uiuc.edu

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

ACDIS cooperates with existing academic units to support the application of disciplinary perspectives to the problems of peace and war. Graduate credit is offered through departments, area studies centers, and colleges of the University. ACDIS does not offer academic degrees. Courses related to arms control, peace studies, and international security are developed and taught by faculty affiliated with ACDIS from the following departments or colleges: anthropology,

agriculture, education, history, mathematics, philosophy, physics, political science, and nuclear engineering.

ACDIS maintains a working research library, organizes seminars, workshops, and conferences, and produces and distributes a variety of publications featuring faculty and student research. The program's primary areas of focus include: the uses of technology for security; South Asia; security policy and policymaking; democratization in Russia and the post-Communist states; the political, cultural and moral elements of globalization; human rights; and military history.

FINANCIAL AID

A research assistantship is awarded each year to an advanced graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science to run the ACDIS Library. ACDIS faculty res earch projects provide additional research assistantships to students in disciplines relevant to the field of study.