Research

Armed Conflicts and Conflict Management Programme
The purpose of the project is to study the non-military aspects of crisis management, post-conflict justice and the nexus between security and development in resolving conflict. We also address non-state actors, in particular the role of privatized military firms and other economic actors during conflict as well as post-conflict peace-building.

Arms Transfers
The SIPRI Arms Transfers Project maintains an extensive computerized database on arms transfers to help identify trends in global weapon flows. The database contains information on bilateral transfers of major conventional weapons since 1950.

Arms control and disarmament documentary survey
This SIPRI project keeps extensive records on the adherence of states to arms control agreements. An abridged version of the information is presented annually in the SIPRI Yearbook.

Chemical and Biological Security Project
The project focuses on all developments regarding chemical and biological weapons, including efforts to establish effective and equitable disarmament regimes, allegations of their use, and measures to stem their proliferation and prevent their use by terrorist and criminal organizations.

Euro-Atlantic, Regional and Global Security
The purpose of the project is to study the new dimensions of the security-building and confidence-strengthening process and their impact on the evolution and transformation of international relations in Europe and elsewhere.

Integrating Fact Databases in the field of International Relations and Security
The project focuses on the development and maintenance of a federated system of individual databases at different geographical locations, accessible through a single integrated user platform. The objective is to offer professionals in the field and in related sciences, such as researchers, politicians and the media, an organized authoritative and structured factual reference system in the form of country profiles.

Internet-Based Early Warning Indicators System for Preventive Policy
The purpose of the project is to develop and implement an Internet-based Early Warning System which uses events data from regional experts and structural data from national and international statistics.

Military Expenditure and Arms Production
The purpose of this project is to monitor, describe and analyse trends and developments in military expenditure and arms production worldwide. For this purpose the project maintains two databases with global coverage: one on military expenditure and one on arms-producing companies.

Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Export Controls
The Arms Control and Non-proliferation Programme conducts research into issues of nuclear forces and nuclear arms control, nuclear proliferation and non-proliferation as well as export controls as they apply to defence articles and services and to dual-use items.