During its first 25 years, SIPRI built its reputation and standing on competence, professional skills, and the collection of hard precise facts, rendering accessible, impartial information on weapon developments, arms transfers and production, as well as on arms limitations, reductions and disarmament.
This publication is a brief report on how researchers who were invited to work at SIPRI have carried out the tasks entrusted to the Institute 25 years ago.
1. Introduction
2. The Governing Board
3. Directors
4. The Scientific Council
5. The origins
6. Organization and staff
7. Informing the world
8. The SIPRI Yearbooks
9. Research programme—the projects
10. Library and documentation
11. Programme for Young East European Researchers
12. Major Conferences
13. Visits to the Institute
14. Olof Palme Memorial Lectures
15. Awards
16. The SIPRI premises
17. Complete list of SIPRI publications
18. Research staff and other contributors to SIPRI
19. Statutes of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
20. Annexes