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Organisations with a global focus on international affairs
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- International Affairs
- Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada) - international association of
scholars, teachers, practitioners, and others who are active in the work and study of the United Nations system and
international organizations in general, sharing an interest in encouraging and supporting education, writing and research which
contribute to the understanding of international issues and promote global cooperation
- Canadian Institute of International Affairs (CIIA) (Toronto, Canada) - non-profit, non-governmental organization that provides
Canadians and others a non-partisan nationwide forum for discussion, analysis, and debate of international affairs
- Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs (New York, NY) - independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated
to research and education at the nexus of ethics and international affairs
- Center of International Studies (CIS) (Princeton University, NJ, USA) - major research arm of the Woodrow Wilson School of
Public and International Affairs at , which supports scholarship in international relations, comparative politics, and regional
studies
- Centre for Global Studies (CFGS) (University of Victoria, BC, Canada) - aims to advance understanding and action on major
global issues by civil society, the private sector, governments, and international institutions, focusing on issues in the three
thematic areas of sustainability, security and governance, in an effort to promote collaborative policy solutions to the human and
environmental challenges posed by globalization
- Centre for Research on Globalisation (CRG) (Montréal, Canada) - independent research and media group of progressive writers,
scholars and activists committed to curbing the tide of globalisation and disarming the New World Order, which publishes news
articles, commentary, background research and analysis on a broad range of issues, focussing on the interrelationship between
social, economic, strategic, geopolitical and environmental processes
- CorpWatch (Berkeley, CA, USA) - organisation that counters corporate-led globalization through education, network-building
and activism, working to foster democratic control over corporations by building grassroots globalization a diverse movement for
human rights and dignity, labor rights and environmental justice
- Development and Peace Foundation (SEF) (Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden) (Bonn, Germany) - cross-party, non-profit
organisation that works to drive forward the German and international debate about the problems which will be faced in future by
a more integrated international community, and that argues for a new political order in a world increasingly marked by
globalisation
- Focus on the Global South (Bangkok, Thailand) - aims to consciously and consistently articulate, link and develop greater
coherence between local community-based and national, regional and global paradigms of change, striving to create a distinct
and cogent link between development at the grassroots and the "macro" levels
- Geneva International Academic Network (GIAN) (Geneva, Switzerland) - international research network whose main objective is
to create synergies among various entities, principally academic institutions and international organizations, to further the role of
Geneva and Switzerland in the service of peace and justice, specifically by promoting practical and "action-oriented" research
and training activities
- Global Action Network Net (Boston, MA, USA) - community of global action networks (GANs) which aim to build their capacity
to make globalization work for all
- Global Public Policy Project (GPP) (Berlin, Germmany) - explores the role of global public policy networks as innovative
responses to the governance challenges of today's constantly changing global environment, collecting lessons learned and
seeking to provide strategic guidance for organizational change and innovation in governments and international organizations
- Helsinki Citizens' Assembly (hCa) (Istanbul, Turkey) - non-governmental organization, working on the notions of fundamental
rights and freedoms, peace, democracy and pluralism, which aims to introduce the basic rights and freedoms accepted in
international agreements and outlined by universal standards into daily life, to promote peaceful processes for the resolution of
problems through mutual understanding dialogue and peace, to improve pluralist democratic bodies and civil society initiatives,
to ensure the supremacy of law, and to defend an economic system that promotes the well-being of human life and the
environment
- Initiatives for International Dialogue (IID) (Davao City, Philippines) - aims to initiate, evolve and popularize internationalism,
South-South solidarity and people's diplomacy through the involvement in global campaigns and by advocating the issues of
other South peoples, and endeavors to build partnerships among peoples organizations, communities and sectoral formations
with their international counterparts and advocate groups
- International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) (University of Aberdeen, Scotland) - cross-cultural group of philosophers,
social scientists, and practitioners who apply ethical reflection to global development goals and strategies and to North/South
relations
- International Forum on Globalization (IFG) (San Francisco, USA) - aims to expose the multiple effects of economic globalization
in order to stimulate debate, and to seek to reverse the globalization process by encouraging ideas and activities which
revitalize local economies and communities, and ensure long term ecological stability
- International Scientific Council for Islands Development (Insula) (Paris, France) - non-profit making, nongovernmental
international organisation that aims to contribute to the economic, social and cultural progress of islands throughout the world,
as well as to the protection of island environment and the development of their resources, by facilitating technical co-operation in
all fields relating to sustainable island development with a special interest in island cultures and human resources development
and the exchange of information and experience through the publication and diffusion of periodical journals, books and reports,
using the international and multidisciplinary network represented by its members
- Metropolis Project (Ottawa, Canada) - international forum for research and policy on migration, diversity and changing cities
- Migration Policy Institute (MPI) (Washington, DC) - independent, non-partisan, non-profit think-tank dedicated to the study of the
movement of people worldwide and providing pragmatic and thoughtful responses to the challenges and opportunities that
large-scale migration, whether voluntary or forced, present to communities and institutions in an increasingly integrated world
- Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA) (London) - institute for the analysis of international issues, which works to stimulate
debate and research on political, business, security and other key issues in the international arena
- State of the World Forum (San Francisco, USA) - global network of leaders, citizens and institutions committed to discerning
and implementing those principles, values and actions necessary to guide humanity wisely as it gives shape to an increasingly
global and interdependent civilization
- Third World Network (Singapore) - involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues, conducts
reconomic, social and environmental research pertaining to the South
- Third World Traveler - magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the corporate media about the state
of democracy in America, and about the impact of the policies of the United States' government, transnational corporations,
international trade and financial institutions, and the corporate media, on democracy, human rights, and social and economic
justice, in the Third World, and in the United States
- United Nations Foundation (UNF) (Washington, DC) - promotes a more peaceful, prosperous, and just world through the support
of the United Nations and its Charter through grantmaking, by building new and innovative public-private partnerships, and by
acting to meet the most pressing health, humanitarian, socioeconomic, and environmental challenges of the 21st century
- UN Watch (Geneva) - non-governmental organization whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the
yardstick of its Charter, believing that even with its shortcomings, the UN remains an indispensable tool in bringing together
diverse nations and cultures
- World Federation of United Nations Associations (WFUNA-FMANU) (New York, NY) - peoples' movement for the United Nations
which aims to inform, sustain and energize a global network of United Nations Associations to support the principles and
programs of the United Nations and to help shape its agenda
- World Policy Institute (New University, New York City) - seeks to offer innovative policy proposals for public debate with the goal
of developing an internationalist consensus on the measures needed for the management of a world market economy, the
development of a workable system of collective security, and the creation of an active transnational civil society
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- International Security & Defence
- Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) (Monterey Institute of International Studies, USA) - nongovernmental organization that
strives to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by training the next generation of nonproliferation
specialists and disseminating timely information and analysis
- Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) (Copenhagen, Denmark) - stimulates debate and research on international key
issues related to peace and security studies
- International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) (London) - source of information on international strategic issues for politicians
and diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business, economists, the military, defence commentators, journalists,
academics and the informed public
- International Relations and Security Network (ISN) (Zurich, Switzerland) - portal linking numerous research institutes,
international organizations and hundreds of professionals working in the security community in order to create knowledge and
facilitate information exchange, dialogue and cooperation
- Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development (Berkeley, CA, USA) - think tank which aims to solve interrelated
critical global problems by improving the processes and outcomes of global governance, and by refining and applying strategic
tools of cooperative engagement to solve fundamental problems undermining global security and sustainability, in particular the
danger of nuclear war and global insecurity, unregulated global markets, and coastal ecology and urbanization
- One World Trust (London) - promotes a greater sense of world community, believing that sustainable world peace, prosperity
and justice will only be achieved when individuals see themselves as world citizens as well as citizens of their own nations and
supporting the work of the Parliamentary Group in its objectives to establish democratic and accountable world governance
through reform of the United Nations, global institutions and international law through education and research projects
- Charter99 (UK) Charter for Global Democracy - project established by the One World Trust aimed at
- increasing democratic accountability in international decision-making and hold decision-makers
- answerable for the actions they take
- Transnational Institute (TNI) (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - worldwide fellowship of committed scholar-activists which seeks to
create and promote international co-operation in analysing and finding possible solutions to such global problems as militarism
and conflict, poverty and marginalisation, social injustice and environmental degradation
- Women In International Security (WIIS) (Washington, DC) - dedicated to increasing the influence of women in the fields of
foreign and defense affairs by raising their numbers and visibility, while enhancing the dialogue about international security
issues
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