Organisation
International Crisis Group (ICG)
Works to strengthen the capacity of the international community to anticipate, understand and act to prevent and contain conflict
NGO providing advocacy and advice related to international conflict situations. Operates research/information/networking projects focused on specific situations (including Bosnia, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) Sends out regular free emailed press releases.
WWW site has information on the organisation, its projects, and full text of publications (arranged geographically).
Produces monthly CrisisWatch bulletin (see separate Eldis entry for details).
Published Documents
- How can Kenya move forward after the 2013 elections?
- International Crisis Group, 2013
- Kenyan democracy was severely tested in the lead-up to, during and after the 4 March 2013 elections. On 9 March, following a tense but relatively peaceful election, the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) declared J...
- Yemen’s military-security reform: seeds of new conflict
- International Crisis Group, 2013
- On 21 March 2011, amid popular unrest, Yemen’s military fractured along intra-regime battle lines. In response a UN-sponsored implementation document outlined a transition roadmap that includes three principal tasks: holding a na...
- Macedonia: Ten years after the conflict
- International Crisis Group, 2011
- This report aims to show how over the past five years rising ethnic Macedonian nationalism, domination of all main state institutions by the prime minister and his party, decline in media and judicial independence, growing school segr...
- Sri Lanka’s north: The denial of minority rights
- International Crisis Group, 2012
- The Northern Province has been at the centre of a halfcentury of ethnic conflict. Comprising the Jaffna peninsula and the Vanni region, the latter largely controlled by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) from the 1990s until ...
- Burundi: A deepening corruption crisis
- International Crisis Group, 2012
- Despite the establishment of anti-corruption agencies, Burundi is facing a deepening corruption crisis that threatens to jeopardise a peace that is based on development and economic growth bolstered by the state and driven by foreign ...
- The challenges of democracy in Pakistan
- International Crisis Group, 2010
- This paper deems that beside the unprecedented natural disaster of floods, Pakistan confronts the twin challenges of stabilising a fragile democratic transition and countering violent extremism. The author notes that in light of the u...
- Rigged elections in Darfur: an analysis
- International Crisis Group, 2010
- The author of this brief writes that the principal preoccupation of the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan is to win the elections now scheduled for 11-13 April 2010. He further asserts that there are no conditions for free...
- Reassessing political transition in Nepal
- International Crisis Group, 2010
- Nepal’s transition from war to peace seems to be chaotic and many have warned of impending anarchy entailing collapse of the social order and the fragmentation of the nation. This, however, is not the case because the transition...
- How can crisis be avoided in Central Asia?
- International Crisis Group, 2000
- This article addresses the possibility that there will be civil unrest and large-scale violence in three Central Asian states: Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The article points to several contemporary factors which indicate th...
- How can police reforms in Afghanistan be effective?
- International Crisis Group, 2008
- This paper is an assessment of the police reforms in Afghanistan and its impacts. The paper says that police reform is receiving more attention and resources than ever before, but such increased efforts are still yet to be matched by sig...
