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Will the world without nuclear weapons be a safer place? Yes No

The next International Summer School on Global Security for the Specialists from Russia and CIS organised by Center for Policy Studies (Russia) will be held on June 28 - July 10, 2009.

During the last three years the representatives from 12 CIS states including the specialists from Russian regional universities, government structures (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense), research institutes of CIS took part in education program.  

The first week will be dedicated to the current global security problems, with a special emphasis on soft security. During the Global Security Week the following security challenges will be covered:

• Energy Security
• Preventing Illicit Conventional Arms Transfers
• Migration and Demographic Security
• Internet and Information Security
• Drug Trafficking and TOC - Sources of Regional and Global Insecurity
• Environmental Security
• International Export Control Systems

The second week will cover the WMD nonproliferation issues. The preliminary list of topics for Nonproliferation Week is the following:

• Nonproliferation Regime and NPT
•  International Nonproliferation Regimes
• Multilateral Approaches to the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
• Regional Aspects of Nonproliferation Regime (North Korea, Iran)
• Renaissance of the Atomic Energy and Its Impact on the Nonproliferation Regime
• Role of International Organizations in Strengthening the Nonproliferation Regime
• New Trends in Nuclear Strategies and Doctrines
•  Countering WMD Terrorism

Besides lectures, PIR Center experts will conduct a number of workshops and round table sessions to give the participants the opportunity to deliver their own research works as well as exchange their opinions on non-proliferation and soft security issues in which they are interested.

The selection of the participants is made on the competitive basis. The organizers cover living expenses for Summer School participants from the CIS countries, and provide them with the necessary materials and literature.

To apply for the International Summer School-2009, please send to the PIR Center the following packet of documents: 

• detailed CV in Russian and English
• recommendation from the chief of the organization/scientific adviser (in Russian or in English) 
• motivation letter

The detailed CV of the applicant should contain:

• surname, name, middle name (including the representatives from CIS)
• date of birth
• education (with names of school/college/university)
• current place of work
• current position
• list of conferences/seminars and topics of presentations list of publications, electronic version of the last one
• language skills
• detailed contact information
• photo

The applicants should be not older than 35 years of age.

The applications should be submitted by fax at +7 (495) 234-9558 (addressed to Mr. Anton V. Khlopkov, PIR Center Executive Director) or by email at zulkharneev@pircenter.org. The application submission deadline is April 15, 2009. The announcement of the Summer School participants list is to be on April 30, 2009. 

All the questions concerning the International Summer School can be addressed to the PIR Center's Education Programs Coordinator Albert Zulkharneev by phone at +7 (495) 987 - 1915 or e-mail zulkharneev@pircenter.org