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Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), the Air Force's intermediate professional military education (PME) school, prepares field grade officers of all services (primarily majors and major selects), international officers, and US civilians to assume positions of higher responsibility within the military and other government arenas. Geared toward teaching the skills necessary for air and space operations in support of a joint campaign as well as leadership and command, ACSC focuses on shaping and molding tomorrow's leaders and commanders.The college's academic environment stimulates and encourages free expression of ideas as well as independent, analytical, and creative thinking.

The ACSC curriculum encourages the development of higher order thinking by challenging students to think critically and exercise a combination of analytical and practical tools required as leaders charged with the nation's defense. ACSC graduates are well educated in the profession of arms with emphasis on the use of air and space power in joint campaign planning and the operational art of war. The ACSC curriculum:

• facilitates the air and space minded thinking of students,
• develops and enhances abilities for higher-level command and staff responsibilities,
• enhances students' abilities to think critically about operational air and space concepts in a dynamic international environment,
• broadens students' understanding of the nature of conflict and current and future threats to the United States and its allies, and
• develops and enhances students' abilities to plan and execute the joint campaign planning process and air and space operations to support the joint force commander.

Founded by The Judge Advocate General, Major General Reginald Harmon, in 1950--the same year the Uniform Code of Military Justice became law -- The Judge Advocate General's School provides basic instruction in military legal practice to new judge advocates and paralegals. The staff is specially selected based on past superior performance and there are currently 25 attorneys, 10 paralegals and 7 administrative personnel assigned to the school.

Founded in 1957, the School of International Service is the largest school of international affairs in the country. SIS offers undergraduate degrees in international studies and in language and area studies, a variety of master’s degrees, and a doctoral degree in international relations. Our students study a broad range of fields, including international communication, international development, international economic relations, U.S. foreign policy, international peace and conflict resolution, global environmental politics, international politics, and comparative and regional studies. The school, headed by Dean Louis Goodman, professor of international relations, has 79 full-time teaching faculty.

The Peacebuilding & Development Institute (PDI) aims to provide cutting-edge training, research, and capacity-building opportunities for practitioners and scholars in the areas of development, humanitarian assistance, diplomacy, and conflict resolution. In addition, the Institute provides practical opportunities for students to complement their academic work while connecting peacebuilding and development actors via research, symposia, and forums.

The Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) is a U.S. Department of Defense academic institute that officially opened Sept. 4, 1995, in Honolulu, Hawaii. The APCSS addresses regional and global security issues, inviting military and civilian representatives of the United States and Asia-Pacific nations to its comprehensive program of executive education and conferences, both in Hawaii and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. 

The Center supports the U.S. Pacific Command’s objective of developing professional and personal ties among national security establishments throughout the region. With a non-warfighting mission, the Center focuses on a multilateral and multi-dimensional approach to defining and addressing regional security issues and concerns.  The most beneficial result is building relationships of trust and confidence among future leaders and decision-makers within the region.

APCSS provides a focal point where national officials, decision makers and policy makers can gather to exchange ideas, explore pressing issues and achieve a greater understanding of the challenges that shape the security environment of the Asia-Pacific region.  As well, the Center gives attention to the increasingly complex interrelationships of military, economic, political and diplomatic policies relevant to regional security issues through its three academic components: executive education, conferences and research and publications efforts.

The ASPR was founded in September 1982 as an independent, non-profit and non-partisan organization. The ASPR aims to contribute to the promotion of peace and peaceful conflict resolution and to the dissemination of practical ideas for peace, including its developmental and environmental aspects. In order to carry out these tasks, the ASPR conducts and evaluates research in line with its objectives, engages in training and education, and conducts scientific courses. It also publishes several periodicals (Dialog, Friedensforum, Friedensbericht) dealing with peace issues.

Brandeis University is a community of scholars and students united by their commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and its transmission from generation to generation. As a research university, Brandeis is dedicated to the advancement of the humanities, arts and social, natural and physical sciences. As a liberal arts college, Brandeis affirms the importance of a broad and critical education in enriching the lives of students and preparing them for full participation in a changing society, capable of promoting their own welfare, yet remaining deeply concerned about the welfare of others.

To conduct training for Canadian Forces personnel and others selected for peace support operations and to provide peace support operations training assistance to Canadian and foreign organizations.

With 60 years experience delivering humanitarian assistance throughout the world, CRS has a strong background in emergency preparedness and response. CRS adheres to international standards to the greatest extent possible in all of its emergency work to ensure that disaster-affected populations are at least able to meet their basic right to live a life with dignity. CRS works directly with affected communities and local partners to help restore and strengthen their pre-disaster capacities.

Catholic Relief Services' emergency programs are founded on fulfilling the rights of disaster affected populations to live with dignity. Every year millions of people around the world are affected by a wide variety of calamities, from natural disasters to chronic conflict. Disaster affected populations have a right to humanitarian assistance as enshrined in international law.

CRS seeks to meet the needs of disaster affected populations through the implementation of high quality emergency preparedness and response programs to mitigate the impact of disasters, meet immediate needs and support post-emergency reconstruction and livelihood recovery.