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Zimbabwe's
election: the stakes for Southern Africa
International
Crisis Group (ICG)
January 11, 2002
About
the International Crisis Group
The International
Crisis Group (ICG) is a private, multinational organisation committed
to strengthening the capacity of the international community to anticipate,
understand and act to prevent and contain conflict. ICG’s approach is
grounded in field research. Teams of political analysts, based on the
ground in countries at risk of conflict, gather information from a wide
range of sources, assess local conditions and produce regular analytical
reports containing practical recommendations targeted at key international
decision-takers. ICG’s reports are distributed widely to officials in
foreign ministries and international organisations and made generally
available at the same time via the organisation's Internet site, www.crisisweb.org.
ICG works closely with governments and those who influence them, including
the media, to highlight its crisis analysis and to generate support for
its policy prescriptions.
The ICG Board - which
includes prominent figures from the fields of politics, diplomacy, business
and the media – is directly involved in helping to bring ICG reports and
recommendations to the attention of senior policy-makers around the world.
ICG is chaired by former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari; former Australian
Foreign Minister Gareth Evans has been President and Chief Executive since
January 2000.
ICG’s international
headquarters are at Brussels, with advocacy offices in Washington DC,
New York and Paris. The organisation currently operates field projects
in more than a score of crisis-affected countries and regions across four
continents, including Algeria, Burundi, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic
of Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Zimbabwe in Africa; Myanmar, Indonesia,
Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan in Asia; Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo,
Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia in Europe; and Colombia in Latin America.
ICG also undertakes and publishes original research on general issues
related to conflict prevention and management.
After the attacks
against the United States on 11 September 2001, ICG launched a major new
project on global terrorism, designed both to bring together ICG’s work
in existing program areas and establish a new geographical focus on the
Middle East (with a regional field office in Amman) and Pakistan/Afghanistan
(with a field office in Islamabad). The new offices became operational
in December 2001.
ICG raises funds from
governments, charitable foundations, companies and individual donors.
The following governments currently provide funding: Australia, Canada,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands,
Norway, the Republic of China (Taiwan), Sweden, Switzerland and the United
Kingdom. Foundation and private sector donors include the Ansary Foundation,
the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the William
and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, the
Open Society Institute, the Ploughshares Fund and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation.
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