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Advanced Research and Assessment Group of the Defence Academy of the UK
African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes ACCORD: a South African-based organisation involved in Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping and Preventive Diplomacy throughout the continent of Africa
Berghof Forschungszentrums für konstruktive Konfliktbearbeitung: an organization whose work is aimed at identifying constructive methods for dealing with ethnic and cultural conflicts in Europe, and at providing scientific analysis of, and support for, the practical application of such methods. Web-site includes the Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation.
Brookings Institution: the Brookings Institution functions as an independent analyst and critic, committed to publishing its findings for the information of the public. In its conferences and activities, it serves as a bridge between scholarship and public policy, bringing new knowledge to the attention of decisionmakers and affording scholars a better insight into public policy issues.
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict: Carnegie Corporation of New York established the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict in May 1994 to address the looming threat to world peace of intergroup violence and to advance new ideas for the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. The Commission has examined the principal causes of deadly ethnic, nationalist, and religious conflicts within and between states and the circumstances that foster or deter their outbreak. The Commission looks at the strengths and weaknesses of various international entities in conflict prevention and considers ways in which international organizations might contribute toward developing an effective international system of nonviolent problem solving.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: a private nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing cooperation among nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States.
Center for Defense Information: an American non-partisan, non-profit organization committed to independent research on the social, economic, environmental, political and military components of global security.
Centre for Conflict Resolution, Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
Centre for Defence and International Security Studies: an inter-disciplinary research centre based in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University in the UK. CDISS exists to research, raise awareness and stimulate debate on a wide range of defence and security issues relevant to both the UK and the International Community.
Centre for European Security Studies: an independent research, education and training enterprise dedicated to encouraging informed debate on security matters and to promoting and sustaining democratic structures and processes in foreign and defence policy-making across the whole of Europe.
Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California: a multi-disciplinary program dedicated to promoting scholarly, student, and public understanding of international conflict and cooperation.
Center for Global Security Research: brings technologists together with analysts and others from the policy community to study ways in which technology can enhance international security.
Center for International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland: theory building, policy outreach , and linking development with conflict management, are the three core elements of diverse and expert team on protracted conflict management and resolution, economic development, human rights, ethics, and religious tolerance. CIDCM's core program seeks to systematically link the Center's work with that of other research centers, governmental organizations and actors in regions of conflict. With a combination of rigorous empirical research and hands-on training, CIDCM supports both policymakers (Track I) and non-governmental activists and organizations (Track II) engaged in preventive diplomacy, early warning and conflict management.
Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University: a multidisciplinary community dedicated to research and training in issues of international security. The Center, formerly the Center for International Security and Arms Control, brings together scholars, policymakers, area specialists, business people, and other experts to focus on a wide range of security questions of current importance.
Center for Security Policy: Conservative organization to stimulate and inform national and international debate about all aspects of security policy, especially those bearing on the interests of the United States. Online publications.
Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Center for Strategic and International Studies: Focuses primarily on three subject areas. First, CSIS addresses the full spectrum of new challenges to national and international security. Second, they maintain resident experts on all of the world's major geographical regions. Third, they are committed to helping to develop new methods of governance for the global age; to this end, CSIS has programs on technology and public policy, international trade and finance, and energy.
Commonwealth Institute: a non- profit, non-governmental public policy research organization.
Escola de Cultura de Pau: The School for a Culture of Peace was created in 1999 with the aim to work on culture of peace related issues, such as human rights, analysis of conflicts and peace processes, education for peace, disarmament and the prevention of armed conflicts.
European Union Institute for Security Studies: Formerly the Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union. The Institute has the status of an autonomous agency that comes under the EU's second 'pillar' - the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). The ISS-EU does not represent or defend any particular national interest. Its aim is to help create a common European security culture, to enrich the strategic debate by providing the best possible interface between decision-makers and non-official specialists, and systematically to promote the interests of the Union.
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies: conducts and promotes interdisciplinary research on key global and international issues. The Institute consists of five research centers: the Asia/Pacific Research Center, the Bechtel Initiative on Global Growth and Change, the Center for Environmental Science and Policy, the Center for Health Policy, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation:as well as several other programs and projects.
Fund for Peace: Mission is to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war. The Fund promotes education and research for practical solutions. It is a consistent advocate of promoting social justice and respect for the principles of constitutional democracy.
Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité: GRIP’s works of research articulate themselves around three axes: Conflict prevention, in particular arms exports and the issue of light weapons; Europe and the international security; European defence economy.
Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) offers to its customers (governments, institutions and industries) strategic decision support and advice in areas related to international and national defence and security. HCSS offers a unique approach in the combination of contextual analysis , its broad base of technology know-how within TNO and supported by qualitative and quantitative methodologies. HCSS products are foresights, threat and risk asssessments, concept development, defence and security planning, conflict and crisis management. HCSS is an initiative of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Research TNO.
Henry L. Stimson Center: a nonprofit, nonpartisan institution devoted to enhancing international peace and security through a unique combination of rigorous analysis and outreach.
Hoover Institution on war, revolution and peace, Stanford University: Research programmes are: American Institutions and Economic Performance; Democracy and Free Markets and International Rivalries and Global Cooperation
Human Security Report Group at the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University: Its mission is to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. The Human Security Centre's flagship publication, the annual Human Security Report, is complemented by the Human Security Gateway (an online database of human security resources), and two online bulletins, Human Security News and Human Security Research.
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis: an independent and nonpartisan research and strategic planning organization that specializes in issues of national security, foreign policy, political economics, and government-industrial relations.
Institute for Media, Peace and Security: aims to educate people in the many ways the media interact with issues of war and peace. It welcomes two kinds of participants: persons from areas of recent, current or potential conflict; and persons from countries strongly concerned with international peace and security. It also plans a research program targeting urgent international peace-related questions in which the media play a significant role.
Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy: mission is to promote a systems approach to peacebuilding and to facilitate the transformation of deep-rooted social conflict.
Institute of Peace & Conflict Studies, New Delhi: this Institute located in New Dehli maintains a website which aims to inform, analyse and nurture debates on crucial strategic choices affecting South Asia. It enables visitors to keep track of key strategic issues as reported in the Indian media.
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: IWPR supports democratisation and development in crisis zones by providing an international platform, professional training and financial assistance to independent media, human rights activists and other democratic voices.
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, University of California: a multi-campus research unit to study the causes of international conflict and help devise options for resolving it through international cooperation.
International Boundaries Research Unit: an organization, located at the Univ. of Durham, in Durham, UK, that works to enhance the resources available for the peaceful resolution of international boundary problems. Its site includes a searchable news database.
International Institute for Strategic Studies: an independent centre for research, information and debate on the problems of conflict. Its work is grounded in an appreciation of the various political, economic and social problems that can lead to instability as well as factors that can lead to international cooperation.
International Peace Academy: an independent, international institution dedicated to promoting the prevention and settlement of armed conflicts between and within states through policy research and development.
International Peace Research Association: the purpose of IPRA is to advance interdisciplinary research into the conditions of peace and the causes of war and other forms of violence. To this end, IPRA shall encourage worldwide cooperation designed to assist the advancement of peace research and, in particular: to promote national and international studies and teaching related to the pursuit of world peace; to facilitate contacts and cooperation between scholars and educators throughout the world; and d to encourage worldwide dissemination of results of peace research.
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame: Founded on the belief that peace is inseparable from the resolution of violent conflicts and the promotion of social justice and equitable development. This comprehensive understanding of peace is rooted in the Catholic social tradition and a broadly ecumenical tradition of moral wisdom that stresses the necessity for justice in bringing about peace.
Peace and Conflict Studies, Institute of Sociology University of Münster: Online research and communication exploring the dimensions of peace and conflict
Peace Research Information Unit Bonn: a national and international advice, information, and service centre covering the whole field of research into peace and conflict.
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt / Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Four research groups on arms control; international organizations; development and democratization and mediation and conflict intervention.
Peace, Conflict and Development: IDRC's Peace, Conflict and Development (PCD) Program Initiative supports research that is on peacebuilding and its specific issues, as well as research for specific peacebuilding contexts. PCD’s programming works to enhance accountability within peacebuilding contexts, as well as to support development of the peacebuilding field in the South. PCD is part of IDRC's Social and Economic Policy Program Area.
PRIO: The International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, Norway: One of the first centres of peace research in the world, and is Norway's only peace research centre.
Ridgway Center of International Security Studies, University of Pittsburgh: Mission of the Ridgway Center is to address, in innovative and exciting ways, the new security challenges facing the United States and the international community. Located in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the University Center for International Studies (UCIS) , the Ridgway Center's focus is on research, education and training, and outreach
Saferworld: an independent foreign affairs think tank working to identify, develop and publicise more effective approaches to preventing armed conflict.
Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Columbia University: SIWPS was created to promote understanding of the “disastrous consequences of war upon man's spiritual, intellectual, and material progress.”
Search for Common Ground, Washington DC: a conflict resolution and conflict prevention non-profit, non-governmental organization that works in partnership with the European Centre for Common Ground in Brussels.
Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation: Interdisciplinary center for the study of conflict and its resolution. Its primary focus is on theory-building, especially in the identification and analysis of the barriers:strategic, psychological and institutional: to conflict resolution, as well as bridges to overcome those barriers. SCCN research examines conflict between individuals, interest groups, corporations and nations, as well as political communities and identity groups. Interests include: negotiation, decision-making, public peace processes, international negotiation and democratization, game theory, organizational behavior, information theory, collective bargaining, alternative dispute resolution and traditional legal institutions.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute: the task of SIPRI is to conduct research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions of international conflicts and for a stable peace.
Strategic Studies Institute, United States Army War College: the strategic level study agent for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Department of the Army. The Institute's research is concentrated in several functional areas: Land power; The strategic environment (threats/interests/regional security issues); National security strategy and national military strategy; Strategic planning; and Futures:concentrating on the role of the U.S. Army in the world's strategic environment 10 (Army XXI) to 30 years hence.
Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research: frequently updated analyses, ideas, columns, debates, news and links on world peace, conflict resolution, non-violence, and justice issues.
Triangle Institute for Security Studies: an interdisciplinary consortium sponsored by three North Carolina research universities sharing an interest in issues of national and international security, broadly defined. These vital questions involve the safety of individuals, groups, peoples and nations.
United States Institute of Peace: the mission of USIP is to strengthen the nation's capabilities to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Institute project reports are available online, plus extensive links on conflict topics.
University of York Post-War Reconstruction and Development Unit: Specialises in the research, consultancy and training of professionals in issues of management and planning of reconstruction after war, humanitarian intervention in complex political emergencies, and post-war recovery.
World Bank Research Group on the Economics of Conflict: Understanding civil wars, crime and violence through economic research.