
Public education and information activities are an essential aspect of the centre's mandate and serve to complement the research and publication programs.
The York Centre for International and Security Studies has established a number of publications exchanges with other institutions and organizations, both local and international. These include:
- The Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS);
- Canadian International Council (Toronto);
- Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies (Toronto);
- Centre for Southern African Studies, University of the Western Cape (South Africa);
- Henry L. Stimson Center (Washington, DC);
- Institut d'Études internationales de Montréal (Montreal);
- Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University (Washington, DC);
- Institute for Security Studies (South Africa);
- Institute of Developing Economies (Japan);
- Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University (Ottawa); and
- Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Frankfurt).
If you would like us to sign up your institution for a publications exchange, please send a request to YCISS.
YCISS publications are also provided to the Directorate of Public Policy and the Directorate of Strategic Analysis at the Department of National Defence (Ottawa), as well as the Canadian Forces College (Toronto). In addition, the centre distributes all its publications to other Security and Defence Forum Centres.

