Who We Are
Advancing Effective Multilateral Action to Prevent Crises and Build Peace, Justice, and Inclusion
The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) is a nonprofit research center housed at New York University. For over two decades, CIC has been a leader in applied policy that links politics, security, justice, development, and humanitarian issues.
Our Mission
Our mission is to strengthen cooperative approaches among national governments, international organizations, and the wider policy community to prevent crises, and advance peace, justice, and inclusion.
Advantages
CIC’s comparative advantage lies in three areas:
- CIC has staff with expertise in politics, security, justice, humanitarian responses and sustainable development. As an institution, we forge links between these different areas.
- We focus on analysis and idea generation that is principled, practical, and policy relevant. CIC is ambitious while also being sensitive to evolving political realities and constraints on collective action in response to international problems.
- CIC has built up a strong understanding and relationships of trust with multilateral institutions over the past two decades. We have a proven track record of working closely with member states and organizational leadership of the United Nations (UN) and the international financial institutions (IFIs).
Leadership
CIC, as part of New York University, is at the heart of a leading research university that spans the globe. Our team includes leading researchers and policy experts of the highest caliber in their areas of expertise who embody the diversity of the global society in which we live in. Meet our entire team here.
Programs
Promoting a Better Future
The world continues to face complex and intertwined shocks: 2021-2022 saw not only the deepening of the second-generation effects of COVID-19, with a widening disconnect in recovery, but also the multiple global impacts of the Ukraine war. Three elements will characterize the environment for CIC’s work in over the course of the next two years:
- Under-attended trends in conflict risk
- A narrow member state focus on the impact of the three crises we have seen in quick succession, compounding each other (pandemic-economic and social tensions-Ukraine invasion)
- New openings for action
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