Our Mission
 

The Ridgway Center believes that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. From this starting point, the Center investigates and analyzes past and emerging security problems. It seeks to generate original research and intellectual capital to address the vast array of problems that the US and the international community face.
  

The Ridgway Center at the University of Pittsburgh

The Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies at the University of Pittsburgh is dedicated to generating scholarship that educates the next generation of security analysts. Its purpose is to produce original and impartial analysis that informs policymakers who must confront diverse challenges to state and human security.  

Matthew B. Ridgway

Matthew B. Ridgway, whose name the center bears, is best remembered for salvaging the United Nation's effort during the Korean War. His military career began in 1917, when the Army commissioned him as a Second Lieutenant immediately after he graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. By 1930, Ridgway had become an advisor to the Governor General of the Philippines, and within a few years, he rose to the rank of Assistant Chief of Staff of the 4th Army. Read more.

 

Jennifer Murtazashvili Provides Perspective on Boston Bombing Suspects

04/22/2013

Assistant Professor Jennifer Murtazashvili discusses Boston Bombing suspects' Chechen background with local media. Read more.

GSPIA Terrorism Expert Michael Kenney Comments on Boston Marathon Bombing

04/16/2013

Michael Kenney, associate professor of international affairs, provides local news stations with commentary on Boston Marathon bombings.  Read more.

GSPIA Perspectives 2013

04/02/2013

This spring’s issue of Perspectives, due out in a few weeks, will focus on Promoting Security and Intelligence Studies.  The issue will highlight many of our most prominent SIS alumni and provide profiles of our faculty central to that major, the most popular one at the School.  The alumni featured on the cover are (left to right): Andrew Hoehn (MPIA ’86), Senior Vice President, Rand Corporation; Sarah Factor (MPIA ’05) Country Director for the Republic of Korea, U.S. Department of Defense; and John Picarelli (MPIA ’97) Program Manager for Transnational Issues, National Institute of Justice. Read more.
 

Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies
3930 Wesley W. Posvar Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
412.624.7884

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