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Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

The Aid Worker Security Database

The Aid Worker Security Database (AWSD) records major incidents of violence against aid workers, with incident reports from 1997 through the present. Initiated in 2005, to date the AWSD remains the single most comprehensive global source of this data, providing a much-needed quantitative evidence base for analysis of the changing security environment for civilian aid operations. For more detail on the AWSD click here.

Publication Date: Jan 05, 2009

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Abby Stoddard, Adele Harmer, Katherine Haver

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): Humanitarian Crises

Program(s): Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Rule of Law

Review of Political Missions 2010

The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations and the Review of Political Missions have evolved into the Global Peace Operations Review, an interactive web-portal presenting in-depth analysis and detailed data on military peacekeeping operations and civilian-led political missions by the United Nations, regional organizations, and ad-hoc coalitions. The website can be accessed here Global Peace Operations Review

Publication Date: Oct 04, 2010

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation, Alischa Kugel , Bruce Jones, Richard Gowan, Ian Johnstone, Teresa Whitfield, Ian Martin

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): International Security

Program(s): Afghanistan-Pakistan Regional Project, Prevention and Peacebuilding

Review of Political Missions 2011

The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations and the Review of Political Missions have evolved into the Global Peace Operations Review, an interactive web-portal presenting in-depth analysis and detailed data on military peacekeeping operations and civilian-led political missions by the United Nations, regional organizations, and ad-hoc coalitions. The website can be accessed here Global Peace Operations Review

Publication Date: Oct 03, 2011

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation, Bruce Jones, Camino Kavanagh, Alischa Kugel

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa

Topic(s): International Security, Peace Operations

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2008

The third edition of the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations was published by Lynn Reinner Publishers on 3 March 2008 and can be downloaded here

Publication Date: Mar 03, 2008

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East

Topic(s): Fragile States, International Security, Peace Operations

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Organized Crime

Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2012

The Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2012 was launched on 28 February 2012. This edition, the seventh in a series, was published by Lynne Rienner and can be ordered at www.rienner.com

Publication Date: Feb 28, 2012

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Center on International Cooperation, Megan Gleason-Roberts

Region/Country: Central Asia, East Asia, Europe, Horn of Africa, Latin America, Middle East

Topic(s): International Security, Peace Operations

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

Shaky Foundations: An Assessment of the UN's Rule of Law Support Agenda

At a time of growing popular demand for representative politics, the protection of rights, and access to justice, this report by CIC's Camino Kavanagh and Dr. Bruce Jones examines the ability of the United Nations to provide 'rule of law' support to member-states and national reformers.

Read the full CIC Policy Paper here

Publication Date: Nov 01, 2011

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Camino Kavanagh, Bruce Jones

Region/Country: Europe, Latin America

Topic(s): United Nations, Fragile States, Rule of Law

Program(s): Prevention and Peacebuilding

G-20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting: Perspectives

February 19-20 2012
Los Cabos Convention Center
Los Cabos, Mexico

Event Date: Feb 19, 2012

Author(s): Bruce Jones, WPS Sidhu

Region/Country: Latin America

Topic(s): Global Governance, G8 and G20

State Capture and Organized Crime or Capture of Organized Crime by the State

Inter-regional Dialogue on Organized Crime and State Capture

“The cartels have not yet corrupted the government’s senior levels, but sooner or later they will, because they have millions of dollars and you need to be a saint to reject them."

-- Zainab Bangura, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Sierra Leone, (Feb. 2009).

Publication Date: Mar 01, 2011

Author(s) / Contributor(s): Camino Kavanagh

Region/Country: Latin America, West Africa

Topic(s): International Security, Organized Crime