NATO SCIENCE FOR PEACE AND SECURITY (SPS) PROGRAMME
KEY PRIORITIES AND SUB-ELEMENTS
(1) Defence Against Terrorism
• Rapid Detection of Chemical, Biological, Radiological Nuclear (CBRN) Agents and
Weapons, and Rapid Diagnosis of their effects on people
• Novel and rapid methods of detection (e.g., chemical and biosensors, multisensor
processing, gene chips)
• Physical Protection against CBRN agents
• Decontamination of CBRN agents
• Destruction of CBRN agents and weapons (e.g., chemical and vaccine
technologies)
• Medical Countermeasures
• Food Security
• Explosives Detection
• Eco-Terrorism Countermeasures
• Computer Terrorism Countermeasures
(2) Scientific Collaboration to Counter Other Threats to Security
• Environmental Security (e.g., desertification, land erosion, pollution, etc.) with
implications for economic, cultural and political Instability
• Reducing the Environmental Impact of Military Activities
• Water Resources Management
• Management of Non-Renewable Resources
• Modelling Sustainable Consumption (e.g., food, energy, materials, fiscal measures
and environmental costing)
• Disaster Forecast and Prevention
• Information Security
• Human and Societal Dynamics (e.g. new challenges for global security, economic
impact of terrorist actions, risk studies, topics in science policy)
• Conducting Regional Studies including Cross-Border Activities
• Preventing Conflicts in Relation to Scarcity of Resources
• Non-traditional threats to security