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Search for Common Ground
1601 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009
Voice: (202) 265-4300
Fax: (202) 232-6718
Email: search@sfcg.org
Website: http://www.sfcg.org/ or http://www.searchforcommonground.org/

Search for Common Ground, in partnership with the European Centre for Common Ground <http://www.sfcg.org/eucen.htm>, is an international nonprofit peace and conflict resolution organization. Its goal is to transform the world away from adversarial approaches toward cooperative solutions. Search for Common Ground believes in long-term commitment and aspires to a permanent presence in conflict areas. Currently, it has eight fully operational offices around the world: Donetsk, Ukraine; Skopje, Macedonia; Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina; Monrovia, Liberia; Bujumbura, Burundi; Luanda, Angola; Amman, Jordan; and Gaza City.

Over the years, the organization has developed a toolbox that includes 18 different tools for conflict resolution and prevention. These include such traditional methods and approaches as training, capacity-building, and convening adversaries for dialogue, as well as less standard methods as TV and radio productions, investigative reporting, community organizing, convening professional groups, and promoting cooperation among NGOs, governments, and international organizations.

Society for Threatened Peoples
PO Box 2024
D-37010 Goettingen
Voice: +49/551/49906-0
Fax: +49/551/58028
Email: info@gfbv.de
Website: http://www.gfbv.de/

The Society for Threatened Peoples, established in 1968 under the name Help Biafra, initially responded to the plight of war victims in the war raging in Biafra (Nigeria). It soon took to "protecting and realizing the human rights of groups worldwide." With consultative status as an NGO at the Economic and Social Council at the UN (ECOSOC), the Society for Threatened Peoples has built its agenda on campaigns opposing arms supplies and dictatorships responsible for oppressing various peoples, such as in East Timor. Other campaigns include criticizing German companies supplying chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons to the Middle East, and drawing attention to the human rights violations perpetrated against Native Americans in North, Central, and South America.

State Failure
CIDCM, Tydings Hall
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Voice: (301) 314-7704
Fax: (301) 314-9256
Email: mmarshall@bss1.umd.edu
Website: http://www.bsos.umd.edu/cidcm/stfail/

State failure, a project of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management, is a new label encompassing a range of severe political conflicts and regime crises exemplified by events of the 1990s in Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, Afghanistan, and Congo-Kinshasa. This website lists comparative information on cases of total and partial state failure for the time between 1955 and 1996 in independent countries with populations greater than 500,000.

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)
Signalistgatan 9
S-169 70 Solna
Sweden
Voice: (46) (8) 655-97-00
Fax: (46) (8) 655-97-33
Email: sipri@sipri.org
Website: http://www2.sipri.se/

The Institute has tasked itself with conducting scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of importance for international peace and security, with the aim of contributing to an understanding of the conditions necessary for a peaceful resolution of international conflicts with a stable peace as the outcome.

Survival International
11-15 Emerald Street
London WC1N 3QL
England
Voice: 020-7242-1441
Fax: 020-7242-1771
Email: n/a
Website: http://www.survival-international.org/

Survival was founded in 1969 after an article by Norman Lewis in the UK's Sunday Times highlighted the massacres, land thefts and genocide taking place in Brazilian Amazonia. It works for tribal peoples' rights in three complementary ways: campaigns, education and funding. Survival works closely with local indigenous organizations and focuses on tribal peoples who have the most to loose, usually those most recently in contact with the outside world. Campaigns are not only directed at governments, but at companies, banks and anyone else who violates tribal peoples' rights. As well as letter-writing--which generates thousands of protests--they use many other tactics: from vigils at embassies, to direct lobbying of those in positions of power; from putting cases at the United Nations, to advising on the drafting of international law; from informing tribes of their legal rights, to organizing headline-grabbing stunts.

Transnational Communities
University of Oxford
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
51 Banbury Road
Oxford OX2 6PE
Voice: (44) 1865 274711
Fax: (44) 1865 274718
Email: anna.winton@anthro.ox.ac.uk Director: Dr. Steven Vertovec: steven.vertovec@anthro.ox.ac.uk
Website: http://www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/

The Economic and Social Research Council has commissioned a new national research program of research into aspects of emerging transnationalism. The program is designed to run until the end of 2002. A specific area of concentration is how movements draw on principles of collective self-determination. This includes how they act together in transnational campaigns, for instance for indigenous rights, development rights, and rights to national self-determination.

United Nations Studies at Yale
Democracy, Interdependence, International Organizations, and Peace
PO Box 208206
New Haven, CT 06520-8206
Voice: (203) 432-3050
Fax: (203) 432-6966
Email: bruce.russett@yale.edu
Website: http://www.yale.edu/unsy/

This project of the United Nations Studies at Yale focuses on the effects of democracy, interdependence, and international organization membership on the reduction of militarized conflict between nations.

United States Institute for Peace (USIP)
1200 17^th Street NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036-6063
Voice: (202) 457-1700
Fax: (202) 429-6063
Email: usip_requests@usip.org
Website: http://www.usip.org/

The United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created by Congress to promote research, education, and training on the peaceful resolution of international conflicts. Established in 1984, the Institute meets its congressional mandate through an array of programs, including research grants, fellowships, professional training programs, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and other educational activities.

Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organizations (UNPO)
PO BOX 85878
2508CN The Hague
The Netherlands
Voice: +31 (0)70 3646504
Fax: +31 (0)70 3646608
Email: unponl@unpo.org
Website: http://www.unpo.org/

Founded in 1991, UNPO offers an international forum for occupied nations, indigenous peoples, minorities, and even oppressed majorities who currently struggle to regain their lost countries, preserve their cultural identities, protect their basic human and economic rights, and safeguard the natural environment.

U.S. Agency for International Development
OFDA Reports Index
Website: http://www.usaid.gov/hum_response/ofda/situation.html

These situation reports provide detailed background information on conflicts and natural disasters, as well as specifics about the current crisis.

Watson Institute for International Studies
Brown University
2 Stimson Avenue
Box 1970
Providence, RI 02912-1970
Voice: (401) 863-2809
Fax: (401) 863-1270
Email: IIS@brown.edu
Website: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/

The Institute conducts interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public education on international affairs through four research programs. The "Politics, Culture, and Identity Program" advances the comparative study of cultural influences on political identity formation, including the emergence and rise of allegiances to states, nations, ethnic groups, and other collective identities.

World Peace Foundation
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Voice: (617) 496-2258
Fax: (617) 491-8588
Email: world_peace@harvard.edu
Website: http://www.worldpeacefoundation.org/

The Foundation is active in and studies the problems of Cyprus, the Sudan, and Sri Lanka, and has worked in and studied the prospects for democracy in Burma and Haiti. It has sponsored research on the role of non-governmental organizations in preventing conflict in ethnically divided societies. It is engaged in feasibility studies regarding the reduction of conflict in Africa by the creation of African crisis response forces. It has analyzed the use of preventive diplomacy in resolving ethnic and other intercommunal conflicts. Its work on truth commissions demonstrates how that method of post-conflict justice seeking can help prevent future internal conflicts.