The Center on Contemporary Conflict (CCC) is the primary research wing of the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of National Security Affairs. The CCC conducts research on current and emerging national security threats, sharing its findings with United States and allied military and civilian decision makers.

Research

The Center on Contemporary Conflict broadly addresses several areas of

national security National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military atta ...

research providing research and analysis to decision makers in the

Department of Defense Department of Defence or Department of Defense may refer to: Current departments of defence * Department of Defence (Australia) * Department of National Defence (Canada) * Department of Defence (Ireland) * Department of National Defense (Philippin ...

community. Among these areas are resource scarcity and conflict, proliferation and deterrence, innovation and

terrorism Terrorism, in its broadest sense, is the use of criminal violence to provoke a state of terror or fear, mostly with the intention to achieve political or religious aims. The term is used in this regard primarily to refer to intentional violen ...

, U.S. strategy, non-state actors and violence,

state failure A failed state is a Sovereign state, political body that has disintegrated to a point where basic conditions and responsibilities of a Sovereignty, sovereign government no longer function properly (see also fragile state and state collapse). A ...

and governance, and regional security and alliances. Research at CCC is sponsored by various federal agencies, including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Department of Energy

National Nuclear Security Administration The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a United States federal agency responsible for safeguarding national security through the military application of nuclear science. NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security, and e ...

, the National Intelligence Council, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the

Office of the Secretary of Defense The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) is a headquarters-level staff of the United States Department of Defense. It is the principal civilian staff element of the U.S. Secretary of Defense, and it assists the Secretary in carrying out aut ...

, the

U.S. Pacific Command United States Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) is a unified combatant command of the United States Armed Forces responsible for the Indo-Pacific, Indo-Pacific region. Formerly known as United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) since its incept ...

, and the U.S. Southern Command. The CCC also manages programs and facilitates federal sponsorships for other private institutions, in addition to executing federally sponsored research.

''Strategic Insights''

The Center on Contemporary Conflict previously published the

academic journal An academic journal or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. Academic journals serve as permanent and transparent forums for the presentation, scrutiny, and d ...

Strategic Insights ''Strategic Insights'' was a monthly electronic journal produced by the Center for Contemporary Conflict at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. History The first volume was Volume I, Issue 1 (March 2002). ''Strategic Insights'' f ...

''. This journal published from 2002 to 2011, is on hiatus pending new funding.

References

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