Training the next generation of policy experts, and promoting substantive dialogue between policy makers and think tank experts on nonproliferation, disarmament and arms control.

Updated: Oct 8, 2008

Training & Education

Jointly with other CNS programs, the Nonproliferation Education Program conducts a number of educational, training, and outreach activities aimed at fostering an international community of nonproliferation specialists. These include the following:

The Nonproliferation Studies Certificate

The EDU Program coordinates the Nonproliferation Studies Certificate Program, which is offered through the Graduate School of International Policy Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. The CNS certificate program provides focused, professionally oriented training in the concepts, technologies, and policies related to the spread of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, and the means for their control, as well as regional security issues involving the former Soviet Union, East Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia.

For more information, contact Dr. Jing-dong Yuan, Education Program Senior Consultant.

Visiting Fellows Program

The Visiting Fellows Program assists young and mid-career professionals in various foreign ministries and national export control bodies, as well as researchers, academics, and journalists, to have a positive impact on arms control and nonproliferation policy in their respective countries.

The Visiting Fellows Program is offered three times a year. For more information, contact Margarita Sevcik, Project Manager, CNS Education Program.

English Language and Nonproliferation (ELAN) Program

The English Language and Nonproliferation (ELAN) Program offers a variety of intensive content-based English-as-a-second-language courses focusing on nonproliferation of WMD, export controls, biosafety and biosecurity, and cross-cultural communication.

For more information, contact Lisa Donohoe Luscombe, Project Manager, CNS Education Program.

CNS Critical Issues Forum (CIF)

CNS Critical Issues Forum (CIF) is a high school nonproliferation and disarmament education training and exchange program between American and Russian high school teachers and students.

For more information, contact Masako Toki, Project Manager, CNS Education Program.