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21^st Century Trust
25 Museum Street
London WC1A 1JT
United Kingdom
Voice: (44) (0) 20-7323-2099
Fax: (44) (0) 20-7323-2088
Email: trust@21stcenturytrust.org
Website: http://www.21stcenturytrust.org/

The Trust was founded in 1986 with the aim of bringing together people who are likely to be opinion leaders, decision makers, and active citizens into the next century at residential conferences or in study tours. Their discussions of global issues of topical importance are intended to clarify common interests and problems, and to point the way to solutions. The aim is not so much to arrive at agreed conclusions, as to initiate new lines of thought and to establish personal and intellectual contacts across national and professional boundaries. Recent conference themes have included ethnic conflict and globalization.

Academic Council on the UN System (ACUNS)
Yale University
34 Hillhouse Avenue, Room 303
New Haven, CT 06520
Voice: (203) 432-9372
Fax: (203) 432-5634
Email: jean.krasno@yale.edu
Website: http://www.yale.edu/acuns/

The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) was first created in 1987 as an international association of scholars, teachers, practitioners, and others who are actively working for and studying the United Nations system and international organizations in general. The Council publishes Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism & International Organizations. ACUNS recently sponsored a conference entitled: "The Erosion of Traditional Paradigms: Transnationalism versus Sovereignty in the New Millenium."

Atlantic Council of the United States
910 17^th Street, NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20006
Voice: (202) 778-4959
Fax: (202) 463-7241
Email: info@acus.org
Website: http://www.acus.org/

The Council’s program on European Societies in Transition looks at issues threatening to re-divide Europe or to perpetuate Cold War thinking, prejudices, and policies. These include: ethnic and territorial disputes, civil-military relations, competitive approaches to entry into multilateral institutions, and the changing nature of security and the nation-state in an undivided Europe.

Brookings Institution
1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
Voice: (202) 797-6000
Fax: (202) 797-6004
Email: brookinfo@brook.edu
Website: http://www.brook.edu/

The Brookings Institution’s Foreign Policy Studies Program looks at the changes in the new era of international relations: unprecedented globalization, widespread ethnic conflict, great prosperity and poverty, and American primacy, amidst a diffusion of political, economic, and military power. It focuses its research on the need to understand evolving realities, to define U.S. interests, and to determine the best policies and tools for defending and promoting them.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP)
1779 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036-2103
Voice: (202) 483-7600
Fax: (202) 483-1840
Email: info@ceip.org
Website: http://www.ceip.org/

The Endowment’s Democracy and Rule of Law project analyzes efforts by the United States and other international actors to promote democracy worldwide. The project also examines the state of democracy, looking at patterns of success and failure in democratic transitions. The Democracy Forum is a meeting series on democracy assistance for policy-makers, aid officials, and policy analysts. Current project foci include rule-of-law development, China's political prospects, civil society, and the rise of semi-authoritarianism. The Ethnicity & Nation Building project seeks to promote a better understanding of existing and potential conflicts within the Russian Federation and between Russia and other post-Soviet states. It provides a forum for unfettered research and discussion on ethnic, religious, and cultural issues, and publishes informational, analytical, and policy-oriented pieces that enrich the debate.

CNA - Centar za nenasilnu akciju
CNA - Centre for Nonviolent Action
Bentbasa 31
71000 Sarajevo
BiH
Tel/Fax: + 387 33 440 417, 272-560
Email: cna.sarajevo@nenasilje.org
Website: http://www.nenasilje.org/cna_e.htm

Centar za nenasilnu akciju (Centre for Nonviolent Action) is a nongovernmental and non-profit organization whose basic goals are peace building, the development of civil society, cross-border cooperation, and promotion of nonviolence. Our main activity is to organize and implement trainings (seminars) in nonviolent conflict transformation and to support groups and individuals who wish to do this kind of work. Through training in nonviolent conflict transformation we are aiming to develop political awareness of the training participants, and to pass on skills in nonviolent dealing with conflict.

CNA aims multiplication. The participants of our trainings are primarily people involved in NGO activities, political parties, media, teachers, and similar professional groups. At our trainings CNA gathers people from all parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Vojvodina, Kosovo and Macedonia, hence giving special focus on networking and communication between people from different areas, whose communication has been interrupted through war and supporting the process of prejudice reduction and communication. CNA also holds trainings in nonviolence with other target groups whom we see as further potential "multipliers."

Centre for Nonviolent Action exists in Sarajevo since September 1997. It is registered as a project office of The Centre for Education and Networking in Nonviolent Action - KURVE Wustrow (Buildungs- und Begegnungsstaette fuer gewaltfreie Aktion - KURVE Wustrow). CNA is open for cooperation with all individuals and groups who share our goals and our basic conviction and determination to nonviolence.

Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM)
University of Maryland
0145 Tydings Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Voice: (301) 314-7703
Fax: (301) 314-9256
Email: cidcm@cidcm.umd.edu
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/

The Center for International Development and Conflict Management (CIDCM) is an interdisciplinary research and training center dedicated to a civil society built on a foundation of sustainable peace, social justice, equitable human development, and ethics. The Center's work focuses on all aspects of the conflict process--from root causes, to its dynamics, termination, and enduring legacies. CIDCM’s "Minorities at Risk" project is an independent, university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in countries with a population of at least 500,000. The project is designed to provide information in standardized form that will contribute to the understanding and peaceful accommodation of conflicts involving communal groups. Through this site you can access a list of self-determination conflicts worldwide.

Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CPRS)
Van Evenstraat 2B
Leuven 3000
Belgium
Voice: +32 (16) 323 257
Fax: +32 (16) 323 088
Email: luc.reychler@soc.kuleuven.ac.be
Website: http://www.kuleuven.ac.be/facdep/social/pol/cvo/cvo.htm

The Center for Peace Research and Strategic Studies (CPRS) of the Catholic University of Leuven has research and development programs on concepts related to conflict prevention. Research is being conducted on the issues of missed opportunities, democratic peace-building, field diplomacy, cost/benefit-accounting and conflict-profiteering, early warning of genocidal conflict dynamics, and peace architecture. The Center is also working on a system for conflict impact assessment in Burundi.

Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research (CSSCR)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
ETH Zentrum/ SEI
8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Voice: (41) (1) 632-4025
Fax: (41) (1) 632-1941
Email: spillmann@sipo.gess.ethz.ch
Website: http://www.fsk.ethz.ch/

The Center for Security Studies and Conflict Research specializes in the field of Swiss security policy, international security studies, and conflict analysis. Activities include research, teaching, and information services. Research work at the center follows a broad, interdisciplinary approach appropriate to the real-world analysis of security policy and conflict management. Research is based upon an expanded concept of security that transcends traditional military conceptions to encompass political, economic, social, cultural, regional, and ecological aspects.

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
1800 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006
Voice: (202) 887-0200
Fax: (202) 775-3199
Website: http://www.csis.org/

CSIS is a public policy research institution. It analyzes key functional areas, such as international finance, U.S. trade and economic policy, national and international security issues, energy, and telecommunications. The CSIS’ mission is to inform and shape selected policy decisions in government and the private sector by providing long-range, anticipatory, and integrated thinking on a wide range of policy issues.

Center for World Indigenous Studies
1001 Cooper Point Road SW
Suite 140-214
Olympia, WA 98502-1107 U.S.A.
Voice: (360) 754-1990
Fax: (360) 786-5034
Email: usaoffice@cwis.org Rudolph C. Rÿser, Ph.D., Chairman: chair@cwis.org, Russell Jim: russell@cwis.org, John Burrows III: jburrows@halcyon.com, A. Rodney Bobiwash: abobiwash@cwis.org, Rosalee Tizya: littlescout@home.com, Laural Gonsalves: laurelgo@panix.com, Robert Holden: rholden@erols.com
Website: http://www.cwis.org/

CWIS is an Indian-controlled, nonprofit, research and education organization dedicated to promoting sovereignty and self-determination for indigenous nations. A major area of research of CWIS is the Self-Government Process Evaluation Project (SGPE), commissioned by the Lummi Nation Education and Communication Project to evaluate the negotiation and implementation of Compacts of Self-Government between thirty-three Indian governments and the government of the United States. In 1994, with CWIS playing the leading role as the agency responsible for drafting the document, the world's nations formulated the first modern international law called the International Covenant on the Rights of Indigenous Nations.

Center on International Cooperation
New York University
418 Lafayette Street
Suite 543
New York, NY 10003
Voice: (212) 998-3680
Fax: (212) 995-4706
Email: cic.info@nyu.edu
Website: http://www.nyu.edu/pages/cic/

The Center on International Cooperation promotes policy research and international consultations on multilateral responses to transnational problems. Working with government and intergovernmental agencies’ officials, as well as corporate and civil society leaders, the Center seeks to clarify the economic, political, legal, and institutional foundations of effective international cooperation. It focuses on such diverse sectors as international justice, humanitarian assistance, development aid, and international health.

Centre for Global Studies
University of Victoria
PO Box 1700, STN CSC
Victoria, BC V8W 2Y2
Canada
Voice: (250) 472-4762
Fax: (250) 721-6542
Email: cfgs@uvic.ca
Website: http://www.globalcentres.org/

The objective of the Centre for Global Studies is to contribute to general public awareness and the policy process at both the national and international level in the program areas of global governance, security, and sustainability. CFGS undertakes research and publishes reports on a variety of policy issues. CFGS also provides information on events related to globalization and policy development.

Centre for Peace and Development Studies
University of Limerick
Plassey Technological Park
Limerick
Republic of Ireland
Voice: +353 61) 202633
Fax: +353 61) 202952
Email: tracey.gleeson@ul.ie
Website: http://www.ul.ie/cpds/

The nonpolitical Centre for Peace and Development Studies was originally established as the Irish Peace Institute Research Centre in 1994. The change of title reflects the more global emphasis of its research work. Its aim is to provide research evidence concerning conflict and its resolution, both in Ireland and in other countries throughout the world, which will contribute to an understanding of how conflicts develop and how they may be most effectively resolved.

The Centre has links with academic institutions in Northern Ireland, Canada, the United States, Great Britain, Israel, Austria, and Slovakia. Its supplies objective, reliable data and information to those involved in the study of conflict and its resolution; investigates the causes and resolution of conflict at all levels in society throughout the world; promotes development issues in countries emerging from both poverty and conflict; and facilitates top-down and bottom-up diplomacy as aspects of good governance.

Centre for Peacemaking and Social Development
3 Raevskogo Street, Apt. 145
Moscow 121 151
Russia
Voice/Fax: +7 (095) 240 0862/241 7770
Email: peacecenter@glasnet.ru

The Centre for Peacemaking and Social Development takes part in conflict-resolution initiatives in the Caucasus. The main objectives of the Centre's operations are nonviolent conflict management, human-rights monitoring, and the establishment of a reliable communication system between North Caucasian NGOs and international organizations, including email and personal exchanges. The Centre collects and disseminates analytical information about ethnopolitical developments in Chechnya. It also provides rehabilitation assistance to children who suffered during the Chechen war and emergency relief to refugees and displaced persons in the Caucasus.

Centre for the Study and Management of Conflict
Leninsky Prospekt 32a
Moscow 117 334
Voice/Fax: +7 (095) 938 0043
Email: umara@eawarn1.msk.su
Website: http://eawarn.tower.ras.ru/
     http://www.eawarn.ru/

The Centre for Study and Management of Conflict, which has been involved in conflict prevention and management since 1992, carries out research on conflict issues and maintains practical initiatives in the field of conflict prevention and management in the USSR successor states. The Centre serves as a focal point and a clearinghouse for the Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning of Conflict, an independent project jointly run with the Conflict Management Group at Harvard University.

The Centre is updating and further developing a database covering a wide range of issues related to ethnic policies, conflict management, and early warning. The issues are analyzed from a socio-economic, political, demographic, and ethnological perspective. Members of the Centre and its network have participated in high-profile practical initiatives on conflict resolution and conflict prevention such as the Russian-Chechen peace process and the Hague Initiative.

Centre for the Study of Conflict
University of Ulster
Coleraine BT52 1SA
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Voice: (028) 7032 4666
Fax: (028) 7032 4917
Email: ja.dunn@ulst.ac.uk
Website: http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/csc/
     http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/

The Centre for the Study of Conflict of the University of Ulster runs university programs on the field of conflict prevention. It offers research and other programs on mediation and peace studies, especially on Northern Ireland, but also on South Africa, the Middle East, and Quebec. Examples are a conflict resolution training for groups in Northern Ireland, a project to set up a computer server that will provide information on the Ireland conflict, and a research project on the role of NGOs in conflicts in South Africa, Israel/Palestine, and Northern Ireland.

As part of the Centre's main project on Northern Ireland, in the years since it was founded it has carried out a wide range of studies with a concentration on practical issues to do with institutional and community structures and change. In the past few years research reports have been published on parades and marches, segregation, mixed marriages, ethnic minorities, the role of the churches in the conflict, employment and unemployment differentials, cross-border relations, and the cultural curriculum of the schools.

Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR)
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom
Voice: (44) (0) 24-7657-2533
Fax: (44) (0) 24-7657-2548
Email: csgr@warwick.ac.uk
Website: http://www.csgr.org/

CSGR is the largest research center dealing with the study of globalization and regionalization in Europe.

Common Bond Institute
12170 South Pine Ayr Drive
Climax, Michigan 49034
Voice/Fax: (616) 665-9393
Email: solweean@aol.com
Website: http://ahpweb.org/cbi/home.html

The Common Bond Institute (CBI) runs projects to assist newly developing human service organizations in developing countries, mainly in the field of conflict prevention and resolution. It runs an International Professional Training Project in Conflict Resolution in Jamaica: a cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary intensive training project focusing on holistic approaches to conflict.

CBI also organizes and sponsors conferences. It co-organizes the annually held International Conference on Conflict Resolution, a big event held each May in Russia focusing on all aspects of conflict resolution. In 1998 it established the International Training Program in Conflict Transformation as an extension of the annual ICR Conference. Training is geared to those interested in developing and practicing personal / professional skills in conflict resolution, and to representatives of local groups currently involved in mediation and resolution efforts within various regional, social, or ethnic conflicts in the world. The intent is to also conduct joint cross-cultural trainings with teams of participants from different regions of conflict, and in some cases to involve participants representing two or more opposing sides in existing conflicts.

Conflict Management Group
20 University Road
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Voice: (617) 354 5444
Fax: (617) 354 8467
Email: info@cmgonline.org or cmg@igc.apc.org

The Conflict Management Group, an international nonprofit organization, is dedicated to improving the methods of negotiation, conflict resolution, and cooperative decisionmaking as applied to issues of public concern. CMG has many years of practical experience around the world in a variety of arenas including bilateral and multilateral diplomacy, border conflicts, and internal and ethnic strife. Among its activities are negotiation and conflict resolution training, consultation and assistance in structuring and facilitating negotiation, mediation and consensus-building processes, and facilitation of interethnic dialogue.

CMG has worked on projects in Cyprus, providing joint conflict resolution training and dialogue facilitation to over 300 Greek and Turkish Cypriots, in Canada, conducting televised negotiations among citizens representing opposing views on the Quebec secession issue, and in El Salvador, advising the negotiation teams of both the national government and the rebel movement Frente Farabundo Mart' on how to end the civil war. CMG has worked extensively in the former Soviet Union to address ethnic conflict through the establishment of a Network for Ethnological Monitoring and Early Warning on Conflict. Training on how to manage ethnic conflict has been provided to government officials in several former Soviet republics, including Russia. The Group has also developed a manual and training program for journalists on how the media can play a constructive role in conflicts in the former Soviet Union.

Conflict Resolution Network
PO Box 1016
Chatswood NSW
2057 Australia
Voice: +61 (2) 9419 8500
Fax: +61 (2) 9413 1148
Email: crn@crnhq.org
Website: http://www.crnhq.org/

The Conflict Resolution Network (CRN) is an Australian organization dedicated to developing, teaching, and implementing the theory and practice of conflict resolution and prevention through a national and international network. CRN's activities include workshops to assist people of diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds to work together, providing trainers specialized in conflict resolution.

As an alternative to the traditional debate, the Network also developed the Conflict-Resolving Game. In the Conflict-Resolving Game, participants address an issue to resolve some of the conflict within it. In traditional debates, participants tend to try to refute their opponent. However, in the game, participants are encouraged to take a non-adversarial approach, with an opportunity for a constructive dialogue that can be ongoing. Conflict Resolution Network also participates in resolving social issues. One example has been the publication of a toolkit for journalists, which suggests some moves they can make in their professional practice to contribute to conflict resolution without compromising their professionalism.

Conflict Resolution Research and Resource Institute
705 South 9th Street, Suite 206
Tacoma, Washington, USA 98405
Voice: (253) 597 8100
Fax: (253) 597 8103
Email: resolution@qwest.net
Website: http://www.cri.cc/

The CRI is dedicated to the prevention, management, and peaceful resolutions of conflict via research, education, and training for government agencies, organized labor, the private sector, education institutions, the health care industry, and social, religious, and nonprofit organizations. CRI course topics include mediation, negotiations and cooperative problemsolving, and cross-cultural communications.

Current international activity emphasizes the development of autonomous dispute resolution agencies in Russia; curriculum development and training on mediation in Central America and Poland; and program development and a broad range of curriculum development and training in Cuba (with the Institute of International Affairs of Cuba's Foreign Ministry). The Russian-American Program on Conflictology is a joint initiative with the Department of Conflictology at St. Petersburg State University.

Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR)

COMIR is an Internet-based cooperative project that aims to promote the free flow of information and dialogue in the field of ethnic relations, multicultural politics, and minority rights. COMIR aims to establish a clearinghouse of information and activities relevant to Europe (OSCE region) to support democratic governance of multiethnic and multinational societies. To this end, COMIR develops and promotes virtual libraries, mailing lists, a database of full-text documents, training materials, etc. Major initiatives include a Virtual Library, coordinated mailing lists, a meta-search engine across founders' web sites, a Minority Rights Practitioners Resource Pack, a best practices database, and curriculum development and advocacy training. COMIR's database can be searched by geographical area and ethnic group (from Abkhaz to Kyrgyz to Welsh).

Email: comirnews@yahoogroups.com
Website: http://lgi.osi.hu/comir/

Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI)
Fredericiagade 18
DK-1310 Copenhagen K
Denmark
Voice: +45 (33) 326 432
Fax: +45 (33) 326 554
Email: info@copri.dk
Website: http://www.copri.dk/

The Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) runs peace research projects in the areas of European security, military restructuring, security in the Nordic and Baltic Sea Area, intra-state conflicts, and the interrelationship between developments in the international and world society. COPRI's research aims at being multi-level, pluralist, transdisciplinary, value oriented, and policy relevant.

Central research areas include: conflict analysis and resolution; feasible peaceful world orders; causes and effects of wars (refugees, economic destruction, reconstruction, conversion); arms races and demilitarization; models for interaction between collectivities, their systemic restraints and possible future changes; identifying potentially dangerous developments ("early warning") and analysis of how they can be turned in more peaceful directions. COPRI's Intra-State Conflicts: Causes and Peace Strategies program focuses on the type of civil wars dominated by ethno-national, cultural and in some cases economic aspects of struggles for power. It has several sub-projects, amongst them conflict prevention and minority rights issues.

Cultural Survival
215 Prospect Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
Voice: (617) 441-5400
Fax: (617) 441-5417
Email: csinc@cs.org
Director: Dr. Ian McIntosh: imcintosh@cs.org, Deidre d'Entremont: dentremont@cs.org, Hakan Demir: hdemir@cs.org, Mark Camp: mcamp@cs.org, Sofia Flynn: sflynn@cs.org, Kimberly Miller: kimberly.miller@tufts.edu, Ken Ramsey: csXedge@aol.com, Lucia Clark: clark2@fas.harvard.edu
Website: http://www.cs.org/

Cultural Survival was founded out of the concern over the processes of "development" being undertaken in the Amazonian regions of South America during the 1960s and the drastic effects this had on indigenous peoples living there. The organization realized that this was not solely an Amazonian problem. All around the world governments were seeking to extract resources from areas that had not hitherto been developed and, in the process, were mistreating their indigenous inhabitants. In response, Cultural Survival dedicated itself to work for the solutions developed by nascent indigenous and pro-indigenous movements.

Ethnic Conflicts Research Project
Brachterhof 38
5932 XM Tegelen
The Netherlands
Voice: +31 (77) 374 0290 or +45 (33) 326 432
Fax: +31 (77) 374 0290
Email: scherrer_ecor@hotmail.com or c.scherrer@planet.nl

The Ethnic Conflicts Research Project (ECOR) was founded in 1987 at the University of Zurich (Switzerland). Today, ECOR is a network of experts and practitioners of conflict analysis, prevention, transformation, and solution active in cross-cultural comparative studies of violent conflicts in the developing world. Its activities include evaluation of elements and policies for conflict prevention and management, field research, analysis of conflict roots, and characteristics of ethnic(ized) conflict and a regular survey on global ethno-nationalism. The ECOR-IRECOR Genocide Research Program (since 1994) is active in comparative genocide research and its applications, namely Genocide Alert & Rapid Response and Genocide Prevention.

ECOR produces a steady flow of publications in English and German. Its latest publications include War in the Congo and the Role of United Nations (166 pp) 2001; Peace Research for the 21 Century. A Call for Reorientation and New Priorities (64 pp) 2001; Ethno-nationalism in the World System: Conflict management, human rights and multilateral regimes (194 pp) 2000; and the Handbook on Ethnicity and State, 3 volumes (in German: 1996-8; in English: 1998-99.

The European Centre for Common Ground
Rue Belliard 205
B-104
Brussels, Belgium
Voice: 32-2/736-7262
Fax: 32-2/732-3033
Email: eccg@eccg.be
Website: http://www.sfcg.org/eccg.htm

The European Centre for Common Ground (ECCG) is an NGO that works with European institutions, governments, and other NGOs in the field of international applied conflict transformation. Since 1982, with its sister organization, Search for Common Ground <http://www.sfcg.org/>, ECCG has developed ongoing projects around the world that seek to incorporate the principles of mediation and co-operative action into the lives of people in areas of extreme tension or violence.

ECCG has offices in Amman, Bujumbura, Donetsk, Gaza City, Luanda, Monrovia, and Skopje, and other projects in Sarajevo and Ankara. It uses well-known conflict resolution techniques such as mediation and facilitation, and less traditional methods like radio and television production, giving it direct access to millions of people. Two of these media programs, namely Studio Ijambo in Burundi and Talking Drum Studio in Liberia, have received the 1998 ECHO Radio and Television awards.

European Centre for Minority Issues
Schiffbrücke 12 (Kompagnietor)
D-24939 Flensburg
Germany
Voice: (49) (0) 461-14149-0
Fax: (49) (0) 461-14149-19
Email: info@ecmi.de
Website: http://www.ecmi.de/

ECMI´s aim is to promote interdisciplinary research on various dimensions of minority-majority relations from a European perspective, and to contribute to the improvement of inter-ethnic relations in those parts of Western and Eastern Europe where ethnopolitical tension and conflict prevail.

Eurostep
115 Rue Stévin, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Voice.: +32 (0)2 231 16 59
Fax: +32 (0)2 230 37 80
Email: admin@eurostep.org
Website: http://www.oneworld.org/eurostep/

Eurostep (European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People) is a network of 19 major NGOs from 15 European countries. Collectively these groups work in approximately 100 countries. Its two principal aims are first to influence official development cooperation policies of multilateral institutions, and in particular those of the European Union; and second to improve the quality and effectiveness of initiatives undertaken by NGOs in support of people-centered development. By working within the framework of EU policies, Eurostep works to eradicate poverty and invest in social development. Among some of the network's goals and initiatives are cancellation of external debts for poor countries, trade arrangements targeted toward poverty objectives, gender equality, and reform of the CAP (Common Agriculture Policy).