Why Support Crisis Group?

Any major conflict causes terrible human suffering – and is shockingly destructive of life, property and opportunity. The International Crisis Group has grown from its modest beginnings in 1995 to become the leading independent source of analysis and advice on the prevention and resolution of deadly conflict, working to rid the world of the scourge of mass violence, terrorism and war.

Why Invest in Crisis Group?

• Because it makes a major contribution to global peace and security
• Because it is a highly professional, productive, and independent organisation 
• Because it works on places that will be the next markets for business and industry
• Because through its work, Crisis Group supports international and domestic organisations working to reduce poverty and deliver sustainable development

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Crisis Group’s Approach: What We Do and How

Expert field research and analysis

Crisis Group’s credibility is founded on its field-based research. We now cover over 60 situations of actual or potential conflict across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East, with our analysts based in or near many of the world’s trouble spots. Their main task is to find out what is happening and why. They identify the underlying political, social and economic factors creating the conditions for conflict, as well as the more immediate causes of tension. They find the people that matter and discover what or who influences them.

Practical, imaginative policy prescriptions

Crisis Group’s task is not merely to understand conflict but to prevent, contain and resolve it. That means identifying the levers that can be pulled – whether political, legal, financial or ultimately, military – and those who can pull them. We identify policy responses that are relevant and capable of practical implementation, even if beyond current limits of political acceptability. With such recommendations in hand, along with its detailed field research and analysis, Crisis Group produces timely and readable reports and briefing papers.

Effective, high-level advocacy

Identifying the problem and the appropriate response is only part of the story. Crisis Group’s task is not to lament the absence of political will but to work out how to mobilise it. That means persuading policymakers directly or through others who influence them. That in turn means having the right arguments and deploying them with people of the right credibility and capacity.

Impact of Crisis Group

Crisis Group’s reports and advocacy have had a significant direct impact on conflict prevention and resolution across the world. Overall, there are five main ways that Crisis Group is considered to play a key role:

·       ringing early warning alarm bells;

·       producing independent and expert field-based analysis and advice on specific policy issues;

·       providing objective analysis and detailed actor mapping unobtainable elsewhere;

·       offering new strategic thinking on some of the world’s most intractable conflicts and crises; and

·       focusing international attention on forgotten conflicts and peacebuilding processes