Organizations that have the statutory objective of scientific research (often known as “think-tanks”) are useful and necessary resource for political and security decision-makers in order to substantiate the security policies. They are also useful for substantiating and objective documentation of the education process and training of the security staff.  The main working tools of the research organizations are workshop, conference, project, research stage, study visit; their products appear in the form of articles, studies and scientific books, or research reports.  In this article, we propose a detailed examination of how this theoretical-methodological tool is applied by the Transnistrian Conflict Analysis Laboratory (research organization of “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu) and the results produced so far