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
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
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
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
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
July 2, 2020 |
Suzanne Spaulding
Part 2: The Role of Civics in Addressing Racial Injustice
On Demand Event
July 1, 2020 |
Beverly Kirk
Part 1: Racial Injustice as a National Security Threat
commentary
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.
Related Resources
Commentary
June 5, 2020
The Perspective of CSIS Scholars
Statement
Signed by ISP Director Dr. Kathleen Hicks, PONI Director Rebecca Hersman, and Defending Democratic Institutions Project Director Suzanne Spaulding
External Resources
The Leadership Council for Women in National Security
Women of Color Advancing Peace & Security
Diversity in National Security Network
Out in National Security
National Association for Black Engagement with Asia (NABEA)
