The NATO Science for Peace and Security SPS Programme

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• The NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS)
  Programme
• Overview of the SPS Programme
• for Cooperation in Civil Science
• Dr Jim McQuaid
• Chairman, Environmental Security Panel

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Why Civil Science in NATO?
The international community of scientists may
help to abolish war by setting an example to the
world of practical cooperation across barriers of
nationality, language and culture.
Freeman Dyson Imagined Worlds ( Harvard
University Press, 1997)
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NATOs Third Dimension

• Science Society is NATOs Third Dimension
  alongside the Military and Political Dimensions
• Operates through the Science for Peace and
  Security (SPS) programme
• Resulted from 2006 merger of two programmes
• Security Through Science
• Science Committee
• Environment and Society
• Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society
  (CCMS)

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SPS Objectives

• Establish concrete civil collaboration between
  NATO countries, Partner and Med Dialogue
  countries
• Mobilize and enhance R D capabilities
• Contribute to solving problems affecting large
  societies
• Promote NATOs values in targeted communities and
  society at large e.g Young generation of Leaders
  of Tomorrow
• Contribute to Peace and Security by promoting
  regional cooperation
• Seek complementarity with activities of other
  NATO and international bodies

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SPS Characteristics

• Policies are set by SPS Committee with national
  representation
• Operates a grant award programme
• Primarily Bottom-Up application-driven
  process, subject to peer review
• Supplemented by Top-Down strategically-oriente
  d activities, subject to quality assurance on
  science
• Non-military, civil science
• Organized by NATO Programme Directors advised by
  four Expert Panels
• Priority Topics identified separately by NATO and
  Partner Countries

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OrganizationFour Advisory Panels

• Chemical / Biological / Physics (CBP) Panel
• Information and Communications Security (ICS)
  Panel
• Environmental Security Panel (ESP) addresses
  significant environmental problems that could
  have an effect on security and/or socio-political
  stability
• Human Societal Dynamics (HSD) Panel

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NATO PriorityTopics (1)

• Defence Against Terrorism (ES topics underlined)
• Rapid Detection of CBRN Agents and Weapons, and
  Rapid Diagnosis of their effects on people
• Novel and rapid methods of detection
• Physical Protection against CBRN agents
• Decontamination of CBRN agents
• Destruction of CBRN agents and weapons (e.g.,
  chemical and vaccine technologies)
• Medical Countermeasures
• Explosive Detection
• Eco-Terrorism Countermeasures
• Computer Terrorism Countermeasures

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NATO Priority Topics (2)

• Scientific Collaboration to Counter Other Threats
  to Security (ES topics underlined)
• Environmental Security (e.g., desertification,
  land erosion, pollution, etc.)
• Water Resources Management
• Management of Non-Renewable Resources
• Modelling Sustainable Consumption (e.g., food,
  energy, materials, fiscal measures and
  environmental costing)
• Disaster Forecast and Prevention
• Food Security
• Information Security
• Human and Societal Dynamics (e.g. new challenges
  for global security, economic impact of terrorist
  actions, risk studies, topics in science policy)
  

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Partner Country Priority Topics

• List of specific topics for collaborative
  activities has been identified by the Partner
  countries
• Individual Partner countries periodically assign
  their own high priorities within this list
• Current high priority topics across all Partners
• Environmental Security
• Computer Networking
• Counter-Terrorism

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Support Mechanisms 1

• COLLABORATIVE LINKAGE GRANTS (CLGs) - to pool
  ideas and resources on research projects and
  create specialist networks
• ADVANCED TRAINING COURSES (ATCs) to organise
  tutorial courses on the latest developments in a
  subject for an advanced-level audience

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Support Mechanisms 2

• ADVANCED RESEARCH WORKSHOPS (ARWs) to organise
  expert exchanges at frontiers of a subject for
  identifying future directions
• SCIENCE for PEACE (SfP) PROJECTS multi-year
  applied RD projects
• NETWORKING INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS (NIGs) to
  improve level and quality of telecoms facilities
  of research institutions

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Publications

• Proceedings of ARWs and ATCs are published in the
  NATO Security through Science Series
• A newsletter is published quarterly the
  Science, Society, Security News
• Names may be added to the distribution list on
  request

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Conclusions

• NATO-sponsored civil science cooperation has a
  significant impact in Partner and Mediterranean
  Dialogue countries
• Programme is focused on security and on Partner
  country priorities
• Tool for connecting nations through their
  scientific communities
• SPS programme contributes to a positive image of
  NATO

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• SUPPLEMENTARY SLIDES

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Examples of Approved Grants in 2005

• Over 290 grant awards in 2005
• Advanced Research Workshops 60
• Advanced Study Institutes 17
• Collaborative Linkage Grants 78
• Expert Visits 21
• Reintegration Grants 32
• Networking Infrastructure Grants 16
• Advanced Networking Workshop 2
• SfP Proposals 38
• SfP Projects 28

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Examples of Approved Grants in 2005

• Advanced Study Institutes (now Advanced Training
  Courses)
• Advanced Modeling Techniques for Rapid Diagnosis
  and Assessment of CBRN Agents Effects on Water
  Resources (Turkey, Kyrgyz Rep.)
• Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  (Canada, Armenia)
• Novel Biotechnologies for Biocontrol Agent
  Enhancement and Management (Italy, Israel)
• Advanced Networking Workshops
• Distance Learning Education for Central Asia,
  Caucasus and Afghanistan over the Virtual Silk
  Highway (US, Kazakhstan)
• Policies for Secure Research and Education
  Networking (Poland, Georgia)

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Examples of Approved Grants in 2005

• Advanced Research Workshops
• Stand-Off Detection of Suicide Bombers
  (Germany, Russia)
• Nuclear Science and Safety in Europe (Czech
  Rep., Ukraine)
• Novel Approaches to the Diagnosis and Treatment
  of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (US, Croatia)
• Management of Urban Earthquake Risk in the
  Caucasus and Central Asia (Turkey, Uzbekistan)
• Sharing Knowledge across the Mediterranean Area
  for Prevention of Catastophes and Sustainable
  Management of Water and Energy (France,
  Morocco)
• Environmental Security Threats in Urban Settings
  (Greece, Ukraine)
• Establishing Security and Stability in the Wider
  Black Sea Area The Role of the New Democracies
  (Netherlands, Bulgaria)

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Examples of Approved Grants in 2005

• Science for Peace Projects
• New Biosensor for Rapid Detection of Anthrax
  Lethal Toxin (US, Russia)
• Uranium Extraction and Environmental Security in
  Central Asia (Slovenia, Kazakhstan)
• Prediction of Glacial Hazards and Disasters in
  the Central Caucasus and Russia (Canada,
  Russia)
• Collaborative Linkage Grants
• New Biological Markers for Nerve Agents Exposures
  and Antidote Treatment (Netherlands, Bulgaria)
• Modelling of Pollution, Circulation and Mixing in
  the Black Sea (US, Russia)
• Sustainable Development of Water Resources in the
  Middle East (US, Israel)
• Smallpox Countermeasures (US, Egypt)