The Defence Research Centre (DRC) was founded in 1985. It operates as a part of the Institute of Social Sciences based at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. DRC is a research institution focused on social dimensions of security, defence, military, conflict and peace in the contemporary world. The DRC provides theoretical and empirical contributions to the development of security studies. It collaborates with numerous domestic and foreign scientific institutions. With its research activity and public debate of its members, the DRC contributes to solving security dilemmas in Sloveniaas well as abroad. One of the important tasks of DRC is the education of students for scientific research work in the security field. Recent topics explored by DRC members are crisis management, peacekeeping operations, critical infrastructure, public opinion on security, international security structures, security in South-Eastern Europe, asymmetric warfare, disarmament processes and selected topics in the field of sociology of the military.
