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HISTORY ISDS was founded by a group of academics based at the University of the Philippines, Diliman in April 1991 as an independent policy research training and advocacy institution. It was established in response to the need for a continuing evaluation and interpretation of changes in national and global affairs for serious international, regional and national audiences. It is also a response to the need to provide academics a venue for research to enrich teaching and to provide inputs to policy making. It is also the institutional vehicle for regional networks in which its founding members had been involved, particularly the ASEAN Institutes of Strategic and International Studies (ASEAN ISIS). It was registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an independent, non-stock, non-profit professional research and training organization in January 1992. OBJECTIVES The Institute for Strategic and Development Studies, Inc. (ISDS) aims to contribute to international and regional peace and cooperation, and human well-being through cooperative research and advocacy, discussion, publication and training activities. Its approach is to identify and mobilize specialists in the fields of international relations, policy studies, and countryside development who will generate a range of options in the formulation of international, regional, national, and local policies. It also conducts its own policy research studies on security and development issues at various levels of governance. OUTPUTS The research outputs of the Institute are disseminated regularly as well as occasionally through a variety of local, regional, and international activities and publications such as roundtables, monographs, and books. The roundtables constitute what the Institute considers a crucial technique for generating information and insights from informed sources, and for wider and immediate dissemination of results. The other outputs are a set of flexible occasional and appropriate modes of disseminating individual and collective research. Altogether, these outputs comprise the platform for the Institute’s efforts at policy advocacy at the local, national, regional and international levels. These outputs are also sent to relevant government agencies in the country and abroad. PROGRAMS The Institute has four core programs :
· Strategic and Security Studies Program · International Studies Program · National Development and Local Governance Program · Human Rights and Human Security Program
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