ISP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The International Security Program (ISP) is building on efforts underway across CSIS to effectively integrate diverse perspectives into our work. CSIS’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion drives greater innovation and strengthens its core mission to advance practical ideas to address the world’s greatest challenges.

Additive to these Center-wide efforts, ISP is executing a focused action plan to hold itself accountable for meeting specific diversity, equity, and inclusion benchmarks. The plan will be updated annually, accounting for progress made, failures observed, and other lessons learned.

This page contains the most recent ISP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Action Plan, associated data, and related information and resources.

ISP includes the Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, the Project on Nuclear Issues, the Aerospace Security Project, the Defense Budget Analysis Project, the Missile Defense Project, the Transnational Threats Project, the Defending Democratic Institutions Project, the Risk and Foresight Group, the Cooperative Defense Project, the Smart Women Smart Power Initiative, and several independent scholars.

ISP Staff Demographic Data

Beginning July 2020, ISP will make staff demographic data publicly available and will update the data on an annual basis. The most recent ISP staff demographics information can be found below.

*This Equal Employment Opportunity data was voluntarily provided by employees and interns during their orientation at CSIS. It represents resident, permanent employees as of July 7, 2020, and interns from January 1, 2019, to July 7, 2020, in ISP. As part of our efforts to build a more diverse and inclusive organization, CSIS also informally tracks several other dimensions of diversity, including LGBTQ+ and people with visible and invisible disabilities.

ISP Events and Analysis

On Demand Event

Opening Doors: A Conversation with Shaan Shaikh and Seamus Daniels

February 16, 2021 | Shaahn Shaikh, Seamus P. Daniels

Please join the International Security Program on Tuesday, February 16 at 11:00 a.m. ET for the second event in the Opening Doors: Embracing Diversity in National Security Series.

On Demand Event

Online Event: Opening Doors: A Conversation with Reja Younis

October 27, 2020 | Reja Younis, Christine Brazeau

Join ISP for the first event in the Opening Doors: Embracing Diversity in National Security series. The event will featurig a conversation on mentoring, networking, career paths and educational backgrounds, and how DEI issues impacted them.

On Demand Event

Online Event: Leading Rapid Technological Change in the Space Community: Perspectives of the Women in Charge

October 9, 2020 | Morgan Dwyer

Please join us on Friday, October 9th to celebrate World Space Week and the women who have led the space community through a period of rapid technological change.

On Demand Event

Online Event: Building Diversity and Combating Prejudice in our Armed Forces, a Conversation with Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD)

July 31, 2020 | Kathleen H. Hicks

Please join CSIS for a conversation on diversity and leadership with Rep. Anthony Brown (D-MD), Vice Chair of the House Armed Services Committee, and Dr. Kathleen Hicks, Director of the International Security Program.

On Demand Event

Online Event: Civics as a National Security Imperative: Addressing Racial Injustice (Part 2 of 2)

July 2, 2020 | Suzanne Spaulding

Part 2: The Role of Civics in Addressing Racial Injustice

On Demand Event

Online Event: Civics as a National Security Imperative: Addressing Racial Injustice (Part 1 of 2)

July 1, 2020 | Beverly Kirk

Part 1: Racial Injustice as a National Security Threat

commentary

The George Floyd Protests: A Global Rallying Cry for Democracy

June 11, 2020 | Samuel Brannen, Christian Stirling Haig

The U.S. government response to the demands of protesters across the country is a test for global democracy at a time of intensifying competition with authoritarian regimes worldwide.