“Established at NPS in 1994, the Center for Civil–Military Relations (CCMR) provides graduate level education to foreign civilian and military participants through resident and nonresident courses. Its programs assist foreign nations in resolving civil–military issues resulting from defense transformation, stability and support operations, combating terrorism, and other security challenges.

The Center for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) is dedicated to strengthening democratic civil-military relationships (CMR) relationships and assisting other nations make integrated defense decisions. Courses are offered both overseas and in-residence.

CCMR MASL Courses

A detailed description of the courses and additional programs that CCMR offers is linked below:
CCMR Courses

Catalogue

The CCMR catalogue of its resident course, national assistance and mobile education team (MET) offerings is linked below.This document is published with the intent of providing the security cooperation community and potential recipient countries the most up-to-date information on the Center and our programs. You can choose to select one of the programs already listed or we custom build one for you:

• CCMR Catalogue (pdf, 6.1MB)
• CCMR Catalogue: French (pdf, 6.1MB)
• CCMR Catalogue: Spanish (pdf, 6.1MB)
• CCMR Catalogue: Portugese (pdf, 6.1MB)
• CCMR Brochure (with graphics) (pdf, 2.4 MB)
• CCMR Brochure (Spanish version) (pdf, 2.4 MB)
• CCMR Brochure (French version) (pdf, 2.4 MB)
• CCMR MASL Listing (pdf 96kb)
  

In-Residence Courses and Mobile Education Teams

CCMR offers a series of Civil-Military Relations (CMR) in-residence courses and Mobile Education Teams (METs). These courses are conducted by a distinguished faculty of prominent scholars, government officials, and military officers. These courses, which range from three days to three weeks in duration, are designed for mixed groups of military and civilian officials, legislators, and non-governmental personnel. CCMR topics include: democratic civilian control of the military and intelligence, legislative issues in civil-military relations, national security strategy development, Defense Restructuring, Military Transformation, National Decision-Making for Peacekeeping, and Civil-Military Responses to Terrorism, among others.

Dates for In Residence Courses

• IDARM Principles of Defense Acquisition Management: March and October
• IDARM Principles of Defense Procurement and Contracting: March and November
• IDARM Principles of International Defense Acquisition Negotiations: November
• Civil-Military Responses to Terrorism (Global): April and September
• GPOI In Residence Courses: May
• Executive Program in Defense Decision Making: June
• International Defense Transformation: October
• Intelligence and Democracy: November
• Maritime Terrorism: April and September

M.A. in International Security and Civil-Military Relations

This fifteen-month curriculum leads to the M.A. Degree in International Security and Civil-Military Relations at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California. The curriculum provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the real problems surrounding civilian oversight of a professional military in a democracy. The program is designed for military officers (0-3 to 0-5) and equivalent civilian officials involved in defense policy making. International students in this curriculum are fully integrated with U.S. students at the Naval Postgraduate School.

In every CCMR program we:

• Focus on developing the capacity of each recipient country to address the civil-military challenges of the Global War on Terror.
• Provide the highest quality, graduate-level educational experience, consistent with program goals.
• Custom-design and build each course or program to meet the specific objectives and conditions of a recipient country.
• Teach multiple, international best-practice approaches to achieving the educational objectives of each program.
• Use world-class civil-military faculty teams with international expertise that bring both academic and practical backgrounds to each program.
• Employ seminars, workshops and courses: We encourage active and applied learning.

Workshops

CCMR has found that small groups of participants can sometimes be more productive in a workshop environment than in seminar. Workshops can be scheduled under MASL P309070 and for FMS case modules in those situations where the CCMR program managerand host nation officials agree on such a format. Including workshops in CCMR's menu of education options is intended to give maximum flexibility to all concerned and demonstrates the value of innovative approaches to learning.

Registration Information

All courses will be administered in accordance with the applicable laws, policies, and regulations of the funding provided for course execution. International participation is arranged through the Office of the Secretary of Defense and individual service security cooperation agencies. Overall quota control and programming is exercised by the Naval Education and Training Assistance Field Activity (NETSAFA).