International Crisis Group

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The International Crisis Group is an independent, non-profit, non-governmental organisation, with over 110 staff members on five continents, working through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy to prevent and resolve deadly conflict.

Crisis Group's approach is grounded in field research. Teams of political analysts are located within or close by countries at risk of outbreak, escalation or recurrence of violent conflict. Based on information and assessments from the field, Crisis Group produces regular analytical reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international decision-takers. Crisis Group also publishes CrisisWatch, a 12-page monthly bulletin, providing a succinct regular update on the state of play in all the most significant situations of conflict or potential conflict around the world.

Crisis Group's reports and briefing papers are distributed widely by email and printed copy to officials in foreign ministries and international organisations and made generally available at the same time via the organisation’s Internet site, www.crisisgroup.org. Crisis Group works closely with governments and those who influence them, including the media, to highlight its crisis analyses and to generate support for its policy prescriptions.

The Crisis Group Board – which includes prominent figures from the fields of politics, diplomacy, business and the media – is directly involved in helping to bring Crisis Group reports and recommendations to the attention of senior policy-makers around the world. Crisis Group is chaired by the former European Commissioner for External Relations Lord Patten of Barnes and its President and Chief Executive since January 2000 has been former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans.

Crisis Group's international headquarters are in Brussels, with advocacy offices in Washington DC, New York, London and Moscow. The organisation currently operates fifteen field offices (in Amman, Belgrade, Bishkek, Dakar, Dushanbe, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kabul, Nairobi, Pretoria, Pristina, Quito, Seoul, Skopje and Tbilisi) with analysts working in over 50 crisis-affected countries and territories across four continents. In Africa, those countries include Angola, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe; in Asia, Afghanistan, Kashmir, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Indonesia, Myanmar/Burma, North Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan; in Europe, Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia; in the Middle East, the whole region from North Africa to Iran; and in Latin America, Colombia, the Andean region and Haïti.

Crisis Group raises funds from governments, charitable foundations, companies and individual donors. The following governmental departments and agencies currently provide funding: the Agence Intergouvernementale de la francophonie, the Australian Agency for International Development, the Austrian Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the Canadian International Development Agency, the Canadian International Development Research Centre, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the German Foreign Office, the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency, the Principality of Liechtenstein Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Luxembourgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the New Zealand Agency for International Development, the Republic of China Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Taiwan), the Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the United Kingdom Department for International Development, the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Foundation and private sector donors include Carnegie Corporation of New York, Compton Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fundação Oriente, Fundación DARA Internacional, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Hunt Alternatives Fund, Korea Foundation, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Moriah Fund, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, Open Society Institute, Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, Sigrid Rausing Trust, Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors and Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund.

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International Advisory Council

Our International Advisory Council comprises key individual and corporate benefactors of Crisis Group. We are deeply grateful for their combination of financial support and advice. Further information on how to become a member of this group, and the benefits of membership, can be found here.

Rita E. Hauser (Chair)
President, The Hauser Foundation


Marc Abramowitz ( http://www.riverlakepartners.com/Tea...owitz(new).htm )

Anglo American PLC ( http://www.angloamerican.co.uk/ )

APCO Worldwide Inc. ( http://www.apcoworldwide.com/ )

Patrick E. Benzie

BHP Billiton

Harry Bookey and Pamela Bass-Bookey

John Chapman Chester

Chevron

Companhia Vale do Rio Doce

Peter Corcoran

Credit Suisse Group/Credit Suisse First Boston

John Ehara

Equinox Partners

Konrad Fischer

Iara Lee & George Gund III Foundation

JP Morgan Global Foreign Exchange and Commodities


George Kellner
Kellner, DiLeo & Co.

George Loening
Select Equity Group, Inc.

Douglas Makepeace
Sperry Fund Management

Anna Luisa Ponti

Michael L. Riordan

Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund ( http://www.sfjcf.org/plannedgiving/ )

Tilleke & Gibbins

Baron Guy Ullens de Schooten

Stanley Weiss
Business Executives for National Security ( http://www.bens.org/ )

Westfield Group

Don Xia

Yasuyo Yamazaki

Sunny Yoon
Kim Eng Securities USA Inc.