{"id":1286,"date":"2008-06-09T23:38:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T21:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.world-citizenship.org\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T12:04:10","slug":"international-crisis-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngo.heidi-barathieu-brun.ch\/?p=1286","title":{"rendered":"International Crisis Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

working to prevent conflict worldwide<\/strong> – in many languages<\/p>\n

… The International Crisis Group is now generally recognised as the world\u2019s leading independent, non-partisan, source of analysis and advice to governments, and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank, on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict … (full text, about 1\/2<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Homepage<\/a> und latest publications;
\nsitemap<\/a>;
\ncrisiswatch<\/a>;
\ncrisiswatch database<\/a>;
\nresearch resources and links<\/a>;
\nspeeches<\/a>;
\ncurrent positions\/vacancies<\/a>;
\nDownload the Annual Report 2008<\/a>, 52 pages – download previous reports on the same page
\ncontact<\/a>: advocacy and Field Offices.<\/p>\n

(About 2\/2<\/a>):
\n… Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation on the initiative of a group of well known transatlantic figures who despaired at the international community\u2019s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to the tragedies in the early 1990s of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia.<\/p>\n

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They were led by Morton Abramowitz (former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand, then President of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Mark Malloch Brown (later head of the UNDP, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN and UK Minister for Africa, Asia and the UN), and its first Chairman, Senator George Mitchell. The idea was to create a new organisation \u2013 unlike any other \u2013 with a highly professional staff acting as the world\u2019s eyes and ears for impending conflicts, and with a highly influential board that could mobilise effective action from the world\u2019s policy-makers …<\/p>\n

… We are generally seen as playing a major role in six main ways:<\/p>\n