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Australia-Japan: Towards a Sustainable Security Community

The symposium will identify the key dynamics of the strategic relationship, identify next steps in two important areas of shared interest (extended nuclear deterrence and nuclear disarmament), analyze the origins and consequences of non-security issues disruptive to the relationship and develop means of containing them, and strengthen the civil society underpinnings of the developing bilateral security community in the post-Fukushima era.

East Asia Nuclear Security Workshop

The East Asia Security Workshop will address the robustness of proposals to establish a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Northeast Asia region.

Asian Energy Security

Modeling the energy sectors of countries in North-East Asia to promote schemes for regional cooperation and examine the impacts of different strategies to address energy insecurity.

Australia-Japan Cooperation for Nuclear Disarmament

This project seeks to supplement the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament with parallel work at the civil society level, which at least in the area of strategic relations, has been less developed than in other sectors.

Civil Society Monitoring and Verification Network

A collaboration between South Korean and Japanese civil society organizations to examine nuclear proliferation in North-East Asia.

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Workshops

Materials relating to the Melbourne and Seoul workshops on climate change impacts and adaptation in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia in November 2008 and March 2009.

DPRK Building Energy Efficiency Training

Training technical personnel in the DPRK on energy efficiency measures and funding the partial energy efficiency upgrade of a building in the DPRK.

DPRK Energy Experts Working Group

Convening experts on the DPRK energy sector to develop a realistic assessment of the DPRK energy sector and energy aid and engagement options to support efforts to denuclearize the DPRK.

East Asian Science and Security

A network of scholars, policy-makers, and security experts from across the Asia-Pacific region who discuss security issues such as climate change, nuclear spent fuel, export controls, tracking nuclear proliferation, and other issues.

FOIA Global Disclosure

Through publication of hard-to-get information, the Nautilus Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) project aspires to increase government accountability and inform the public on high-level government planning, particularly on issues of Nuclear policy.

Improving Regional Security and Denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula

The report describes recent developments in North Korea, explains how U.S. interests have been challenged, and establishes objectives that can be achieved through a new U.S. strategy based on five key initiatives: a road map to denuclearization, a new plan for limiting North Korea's missile program, a Korean peace process, a pragmatic human rights dialogue and new approaches to combating North Korea's illicit activities.

Interconnections of Global Problems in East Asia

The project brings together experts from Japan, the ROK, and PRC to explore the interconnected relationship between non-traditional security issues such as urban insecurity, climate change and energy security and analyze the difference in policy responses to these issues in each country.

Non-State Nuclear Weapons Proliferation and UNSC Resolution 1540

This project explores ways to strengthen national implementation of the April 2004 UNSC Resolution 1540 obligations to prevent the spread of WMD to non-state actors.

Re-framing Australia-Indonesia security

Reframing Australia-Indonesia security is a Nautilus project in collaboration with Indonesian partner organisations through shared work on global problems: in particular climate change and energy insecurity. This includes the influence of climate change concerns on nuclear energy planning in the two countries, and the possible misperceptions deriving from both current nuclear planning and past nuclear proliferation attempts.

Strong Connections: Australia-Korean Strategic Futures

In 2010, Nautilus Institute at RMIT was funded by the Australia-Korea Foundation to organize a series of events on strategic futures and strengthened civil society policy relations.