Research
Research is conducted at SIPRI by an international staff of about 40 researchers and research assistants. The Institute’s current research programme centres on the following projects:
- The SIPRI Yearbook
- Euro-Atlantic Security and Arms Control
- Armed Conflict and Conflict Management
- Non-Proliferation and Export Controls
- Chemical and Biological Warfare
- Military Expenditure and Arms Production
- Arms Transfers
- IT Projects: 'Facts on International Relations and Security Trends' and 'An Internet-Based Early Warning Indicators System for Preventive Policy'
Within these fields of study, workshops, conferences, seminars and lectures are organized in order to bring together a broad spectrum of expertise and to exchange views on subjects studied at the Institute. SIPRI research projects maintain large databases on military expenditure, arms-producing industries, arms transfers, chemical and biological warfare, national and international export controls, arms control agreements, annual chronologies of major arms control events, military manoeuvres and nuclear explosions. SIPRI hosts the FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends) online database of security-relevant information at http://first.sipri.org.
The datasets provided by SIPRI, especially on military expenditure, have been criticized for containing errors.
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