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CURRENT RESEARCH PRIORITIES 2006
The International Security Research and Outreach Programme
(ISROP) is located within the International Security Bureau
of Foreign Affairs Canada.
ISROP provides timely, high quality policy
relevant research on international security, non-proliferation,
arms control and disarmament issues to support Canadian policy
development and the efforts of Canadian officials in their
work abroad. ISROP provides this policy research through research
partnerships involving experts from Canada and abroad
with an emphasis upon developing
Canadian capacities to engage with these issues.
ISROP supports outreach activities such as policy
consultations and research
awards, and also produces an annual report on its activities each fiscal year.
Our History
The International Security Research and Outreach Programme
(ISROP) can trace its roots back to the Department's Verification
Research Programme (VERPROG). Throughout the 1980s and 1990s
the VERPROG funded research to support Canadian non-proliferation,
arms control and disarmament (NACD) policy development and
international negotiations. The Programme had a widely acknowledged
positive impact on the success of numerous Canadian NACD initiatives,
receiving a Minister of Foreign Affairs award for foreign
policy excellence in 1995 and a Government of Canada award
for excellence in 1996.
The VERPROG provided direct research support to the development
of verification systems for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test
Ban Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological
and Toxin Weapons Convention and the Conventional Forces in
Europe Treaty. The Programme also supported key elements of
the Department's Human Security Agenda, including the
negotiation of the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel
mines and efforts to constrain the proliferation and abuse
of small arms. VERPROG supported over three hundred and fifty
research projects, and published more than two hundred studies
for both official use and public consumption.
The International Security Research and Outreach Programme,
ISROP, replaced the VERPROG in 1998 with a mandate to broaden
its research efforts to include work on selected international
security issues.
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