Whois & Analysis for sipri.org

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) is an international institute based in Sweden, dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament.

Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.

SIPRI is based in Stockholm.

International security, also called global security, refers to the amalgamation of measures taken by states and international organizations, such as the United Nations, European Union, Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and others, to ensure mutual survival and safety.

These measures include military action and diplomatic agreements such as treaties and conventions.

International and national security are invariably linked.

International security is national security or state security in the global arena.

Natural resources are resources that exist without actions of humankind.

This includes all valued characteristics such as magnetic, gravitational, and electrical properties and forces.

On earth it includes: sunlight, atmosphere, water, land (includes all minerals) along with all vegetation and animal life that naturally subsists upon or within the heretofore identified characteristics and substances.

Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over the territory.

The opposite of independence is a dependent territory.

Independence does not necessarily mean freedom.