The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) was founded in 1983 as a multicampus research unit serving the entire University of California (UC) system. The institutes purpose is to study the causes of international conflict and the opportunities to resolve it through international cooperation. During IGCCs first five years, research focused largely on the issue of averting nuclear war through arms control and confidence-building measures between the superpowers. Since then the research program has diversified to encompass several broad areas of inquiry: regional relations, international environmental policy, international relations theory, and most recently, the domestic sources of foreign policy. The IGCC server makes not only text, but related full-color photographs, audio- and video clips, maps, graphs, charts, and other multimedia information available to Internet users world-wide.
