Ground Zero Minnesota: Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom

Center for the Study of Intelligence and Wisdom

Resources

How to Write A Letter To The Editor (13K PDF)

How to Sponsor A Public Education Event (13K PDF)

How to Create A Club or Committee (13K PDF)

198 Methods of Nonviolent Action (52K PDF)
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action lists a full range of methods for nonviolent action. Gene Sharp researched and catalogued these 198 methods and provided a rich selection of historical examples from his seminal work, The Politics of Nonviolent Action. This publication was produced by the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston (www.aeinstein.org).

Handbook of Intelligence Studies
(Taylor and Francis, London, 2006)
CSIW executive director Michael Andregg authored the chapter (4) on intelligence ethics in this textbook for intelligence professionals.

Hague Appeal for Peace (video)

Human Security and National Security (68K PDF)
This very short concept piece was created to help a mixed panel of human rights activists and military officers involved in civil affairs to recognize the substantial overlap between these concepts. The UN has been promoting the idea of “human security” for about a decade, but very few people know why or what that means.

"Intelligence Ethics" (240K PDF)
This is a chapter (4) produced for an intelligence studies textbook being published in Great Britain in 2006 called the Handbook of Intelligence Studies. It is longer, and reviews the essential roles of different types of “intelligence professionals” as well as some of the exceptional dilemmas they face in their work.

Restoring Healthy Relationships Between Intelligence Agencies and the Academy (98K PDF)
This paper reflects the schism between related groups of “intelligence professionals” specifically academics, media and spies. It attempts to point out how much better each could do their different jobs if they collaborated better. That requires some understanding of the different works they do, and how to better exploit the open sources revolution without violating confidences.

Wisdom, in Context of National Intelligence Agencies (145K PDF)
This is a short paper presented to the Intelligence Studies Section of the ISA in 2003 on the difficulties of creating higher order values (like wisdom) in the real working environments of national intelligence agencies.