CCISS Research

Areas of Research

CCISS undertakes research on issues related to intelligence and security studies. Our principal areas of interest are:
(1) Intelligence and National Security;
(2) Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism;
(3) Infrastructure Protection and Resilience;
(4) International security.

Since CCISS was founded in 2002 it has organized or co-sponsored conferences and workshops on subjects such as:

• The 2010 report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India Flight 182;
  
  
• Energy Security (2010);
  
  
• Resilience in Canada (2008);
  
  
• Policing Counter-Terrorism (2008);
  
  
• Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Policy conferences in 2006, 2007, & 2008;
  
  
• The Administration of Justice and National Security in Democracies (2007);
  
  
• Making National Security Accountable: International Perspectives on Intelligence Review and Oversight (2005, sponsored by SIRC);
  
  
• The Gouzenko Affair: The Beginnings of Canadian Counter-Espionage and Cold War Intelligence History (2004, with the Canadian War Museum, Library & Archives Canada);
  
  
• Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Borders (2003, with Royal Military College);
  
  
• Intelligence Analysis (workshops in March & November 2003, and June 2004);
  
  
• The New International Intelligence Order: Knowledge for Security and International Relations (2002, partnering with CASIS);
  
  
• Canada’s Foreign Intelligence Requirements (2002); and,
  
  
• Terrorism, the Law and Democracy (2002, with the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice).

Under its research activities the Centre has sponsored and produced:

• eight studies on Trends in Terrorism sponsored by the Integrated Threat Assessment Centre (ITAC) published in 2006 and 2007;
  
  
• 16 papers on Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection Policy Research sponsored by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) published in 2006, 2007, and 2008;
  
  
• Four research papers on The Administration of Justice and National Security in Democracies (2007)
  
  
• Larry Black & Martin Rudner, eds., The Gouzenko Affair and the Beginnings of Canadian Counter-Espionage, CRCR Canada/Russia Series no. 8, published by the Penumbra Press, Ottawa, 2006;
  
  
• David Carment & Martin Rudner, eds., Peacekeeping Intelligence: New Players, Extended Boundaries, Studies in Intelligence, London: Routledge, 2006.