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International Crisis Group (ICG)

🔊 Listen to this Post The International Crisis Group (ICG; also simply known as the Crisis Group) is a transnational non-profit, non-governmental organization founded in 1995 that carries out field research on violent conflict and advances policies to prevent, mitigate or resolve conflict. It advocates policies directly with governments, multilateral organisations and other political actors as well as the media.

The International Crisis Group gives advice to governments and intergovernmental bodies like the United Nations, European Union and World Bank on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict. It combines field-based analysis, policy prescription, and advocacy, with key roles being played by senior management and board members. By its own accounts, the International Crisis Group plays a major role in four ways:

• Providing early warning in blog posts and social media, in the monthly CrisisWatch bulletin, and through specific “crisis alerts”, e.g., in Yemen, Thailand, Somalia and Venezuela;
• Contributing behind-the-scenes support and advice to peace negotiations, e.g., in Colombia, Burundi, Northern Uganda, and Sudan;
• Producing highly detailed analysis and advice on specific policy issues in conflict or potential conflict situations, helping policymakers in the UN Security Council, regional organisations, donor countries and others with major influence, and in the countries at risk themselves, do better in preventing, managing and resolving conflict, and in rebuilding after it;
• Offering new strategic and tactical thinking on intractable conflicts and crises, e.g., on the Iran nuclear issue, the Arab–Israeli conflict, internal conflict in Myanmar and Chinese–Japanese tensions.

Crisis Group raises funds from mainly western governments, charitable foundations, companies and individual donors. In 2011/2012, 49% of its funding came from governments, 20% from philanthropic organisations, and 31% from individuals and private foundations. During 2012/2013 “unrestricted income for annual operations” was $18.3 million with total expenditure of $21.9 million, with 49% of funds coming from governments, 23% from individuals and corporate foundations and 30% of ‘philanthropic organisations’, where the difference between corporate foundations and ‘philanthropic organisations’ was not explained. In the early stages of Crisis Group’s history, funding was much less diverse, mainly from co-founder George Soros, chairman of the Open Society Institute. Crisis Group has an Advisory Council composed of three groups named the President’s Council, the International Advisory Council, and the Ambassador Council.

Crisis Group’s international headquarters have been in Brussels, with ‘advocacy offices’ in Washington DC, where it has been based as a legal entity, New York and London. Crisis Group has had field offices in 30 locations, with teams of analysts dispatched to areas at risk of outbreak, escalation, or recurrence of conflict. Based on the information these teams have been gathering, Crisis Group has created analytical reports with recommendations for world leaders and organizations. All reports and conflict alerts, are publicly available. The monthly CrisisWatch bulletin is online since 2003. As of January 2014 Crisis Group operated 31 field offices in Abuja, Bangkok, Beijing, Beirut, Bishkek, Bogotá, Bujumbura, Cairo, Dakar, Damascus, Dubai, Gaza, Guatemala City, Islamabad, Istanbul, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Johannesburg, Kabul, Kathmandu, Mexico City, Nairobi, Port-au-Prince, Pristina, Rabat, Sanaa, Sarajevo, Seoul, Tbilisi, Tripoli, and Tunis. Crisis Group’s website also stated that “of 116 Crisis Group positions on 1 February 2014, 63 were based in the field in 26 locations”.

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