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	International Crisis Group - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The International Crisis Group is an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization whose mission is to prevent and resolve deadly conflicts through field-based analysis and high-level advocacy.
		As an analytical and report-generating organization, Crisis Group works with governments, international organizations, and media outlets to publish and disseminate their reports and briefing papers, which are also available on its website.
		Crisis Group is chaired by former British politician and European Commissioner for External Affairs, Chris Patten (Lord Patten of Barnes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_Crisis_Group (314 words)

	International crisis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		An international crisis is a crisis between nations.
		Snyder [1] defines an international crisis a "...a sequence of interactions between the governments of two or more sovereign states in severe conflict, short of actual war, but involving the perception of a dangerously high probability of war".
		International crises tend to result in war, almost by definition; they are then remembered best not as crises but as causes of wars.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/International_crisis (377 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Affluent nations became more dependent on international loans to finance their current expenses; the deepening national debts of these countries added to internal political tensions and, early in the decade, resulted in the election of more financially conservative governments.
		The LDC debt situation, compared to that of the rest of the world, is made all the more ridiculous when one recognizes that many of these starving and near-starving nations are exporting food grains as cash crops to generate the foreign exchange required to service their foreign debts.
		International lending institutions have offered comparatively few options to the LDCs in dealing with their debt crisis, with the exception of extending repayments over a longer period of time.
	caster.ssw.upenn.edu /~restes/isw/chapter32.html (2187 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Do Americans care about Darfur? - An International Crisis Group/Zogby ...
		Major international players have justified their failure to resolve the situation by citing an array of bureaucratic, diplomatic and political hurdles that stand in the way of a more robust response to the situation on the ground.
		In that light, the International Crisis Group was particularly keen to more fully explore the attitudes of the American public about the situation in Darfur and what steps it felt were warranted in response.
		Crisis Group commissioned the respected Zogby International polling firm to conduct a public opinion survey in the United States during May 2005.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-6CY4RT?OpenDocument (1233 words)

	Committee on International Relations, U.S. House of Representatives
		Attempts by international organisations to engage with the security forces in training, roundtables or seminars do no harm, but they should not be considered evidence of any serious change within the security organs.
		International NGOs have faced increasing legal restrictions, although decisions are made on purely political grounds.
		Most of the international community is united in its assessment of the Government of Uzbekistan's policies: the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has cut public lending; the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe has issued critical policy statements; other IFIs have also limited lending to central government.
	wwwc.house.gov /international_relations/108/sch061504.htm (2626 words)

	Tradewind Strategies - International Crisis Community (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Crisis communications is a three-phase process: Prevention, Preparation, Recovery and Rebuilding.
		If you don’t respond to all aspects of a crisis across the full range of media, regaining control over that crisis could prove to be impossible.
		Use each crisis as an opportunity to improve your overall crisis communications planning – one thing is certain, surviving a crisis only ensures that there will be more in the future.
	www.tradewindstrategies.com /tradewind_inter.html (426 words)

	Encyclopedia: International Crisis Group (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As an analytical and report-generating organization, Crisis Group works with governments, international organizations, and media outlets to publish and disseminate their reports and briefing papers, which are also available on its website (http://www.crisisgroup.org).
		Crisis Group's international headquarters are in Brussels, and they have advocacy offices in Washington DC, New York, London and Moscow, along with 18 field offices in in Amman, Belgrade, Beirut, Cairo, Dakar, Dushanbe, Islamabad, Jakarta, Kabul, Nairobi, Osh, Port-au-Prince, Pretoria, Pristina, Quito, Seoul, Skopje and Tbilisi.
		Western can refer to: A Western blot is a method in molecular biology to detect a certain protein in a sample by using antibody specific to that protein.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/International-Crisis-Group (663 words)

	International Crisis Behavior Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		International Crisis Behavior Online presents an interactive version of the data and summaries originally published as part of A Study of Crisis by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Michigan Press, 1997, 2000.
		We are very pleased to announce the release of ICB Version 5, covering all international and foreign policy crises for the period 1918-2002.
		This version includes data on 440 international crises (icb1v5) and 970 crisis actors (icb2v5).
	www.icbnet.org (249 words)

	Integrating information technology into international crisis management and policy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The critical task is to identify the factors that increase the capacity of organizations to solve problems under stress, the factors that inhibit this process in actual disaster events and the points of interaction between the two sets.
		While the volume of international disaster assistance demonstrated great empathy and international good will toward the afflicted nation, it also created additional burdens on organizational attention, resources and time in seeking to manage the unsolicted contributions to disaster operations.
		Four months later, in July, 1987, Cayambe was heralded as an example of international cooperation in disaster assistance, as seven international organizations had arranged to fund and build housing in joint projects with the residents.
	www.iisis.pitt.edu /publications/921207.html (7166 words)

	International Crisis Group (Crisis Group) - Conflict prevention and resolution
		You are of course also very welcome to make a donation to our own International Crisis Group: we are an analysis and advocacy organisation rather than an aid-delivery one, but we depend very much on public support, as well as grants from governments and foundations, to carry on our work of conflict prevention and resolution.
		The key international organisations and concerned governments should urgently agree and coordinate at a high level on what is necessary, without regard to institutional prerogatives or national prestige.
		Crisis Group estimates that as much as one fifth of that population is currently internally displaced.
	www.crisisweb.org /home/index.cfm?id=2700&l=1 (1868 words)

	Paper on International Debt Crisis
		The debt crisis is seen as one moment of rupture in a more general crisis of the ability of business and the state to manage a particular global composition of the labor force and society more generally.
		The international debt crisis is but one contemporary example, among many, of economic and political phenomena whose interpretation demands a global approach to understanding economic and social relations today.
		Having located the origins of the debt crisis in an international cycle of social conflict, I now want to argue that the continuation of the crisis in the ability of borrowers to repay that debt lies in the failure of policy makers to overcome resistance and to restore conditions for a new cycle of accumulation.
	www.eco.utexas.edu /facstaff/Cleaver/357Ldebtcrisis.html (11604 words)

	Albania: State of the Nation. Part II. International Crisis Group. March, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The international community is pushing the Albanian Government to improve law and order and has stressed that further international aid to Albania will be conditional upon an improved security situation.
		International actors - in particular the European Union and the World Bank - must remain engaged and committed to assisting Albania in combating its most urgent problems: organised crime, illegal smuggling and drug trafficking, as well as a whole host of domestic problems, including access to education, which have developed out of weak state institutions.
		The international community's financial assistance to Albania - in programs such as the EU Phare initiative, must continue to be directed primarily at projects which develop technical capacity within Albania's weak state structures.
	www.ess.uwe.ac.uk /kosovo/Albania2.htm (6056 words)

	Crisis Management International - Crisis Management Consultation: Beyond Debriefing
		The difference was professional crisis consultation, beyond the usual group debriefing services that follow tragic workplace incidents.
		Align with resources for crisis assistance: Attorneys specializing in workplace violence, crisis management firms, and crisis public relation firms are noteworthy contacts to refer at times of critical incidents.
		Now is the time to assess the need, set your limits and procedures and establish resources for comprehensive crisis response service that extends to employees and company crisis management teams, as well.
	www.cmiatl.com /news_article16.html (887 words)

	Amnesty International - East Timor Crisis
		Amnesty International is concerned at the ongoing high level of human rights violations and atmosphere of almost total impunity in East Timor.
		As the international peace-keeping force arrives in East Timor, tens of thousands of forcibly displaced East Timorese are at risk of serious human rights violations throughout Indonesia, Amnesty International said in a report released today.
		Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the safety of priests, nuns and church workers in East Timor who are increasingly being targeted by armed pro-Indonesian militia an the Indonesian National Army (TNI).
	www.amnesty.org /ailib/intcam/east-timor (2550 words)

	The Observer \| International \| Ukraine crisis grows as MPs vote to cancel election result
		The crisis over Ukraine's disputed presidential election deepened yesterday as the country's parliament voted to annul the results of last week's poll and declared their lack of confidence in officials.
		The crisis has teetered on the brink of civil conflict, threat ening to become a full-scale 'orange revolution' - the colour of the opposition.
		Moscow, which has overtly backed Yanukovich, congratulating him on his victory and decrying US and EU 'interference' in the crisis modified its stance, saying yesterday another vote could be an acceptable outcome.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Observer/international/story/0,6903,1361309,00.html (649 words)

	Dojran.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		European and other international organizations have been informed of this catastrophe, yet have also failed to intervene, thinking that nothing can be done until Greece recognizes the Republic of Macedonia.
		Some of the avenues considered will be involvement by international organizations for the purpose of placing the issue on the political agenda, directing some of the international aid towards the solution of this problem, improving agricultural practices in the Doyran watershed, and restructuring the regional economy to reduce excessive environmental pressures.
		In addition, international assistance may be needed in their attempts to wrestle the causes of the problem and implement conservation strategies.
	hometown.aol.com /naskov/myhomepage/Article.html (7100 words)

	Manifesto for the Portuguese People on the International Crisis
		Humanity is facing a crisis endangering civilization itself It is the most profound crisis since the fall of the Roman Empire.
		It is a global crisis — political, economical, military, cultural, and environmental.
		The outcome of the crisis of civilization that we are going though is at this moment unpredictable.
	resistir.info /manifesto/manifesto_trad_ingles.html (1930 words)

	Political Economy of International Crisis
		Section VI The debt crisis exploded into public view in August of 1982 when Mexico announced to the world that it was unable to pay what it owed to its international creditors.
		Digging behind the financial veil to discover the social roots of the rise and perpetuation of the debt crisis, together with an attempt to link these roots to other aspects of the general crisis, is the object of this section of the course.
		The analysis is a sociopolitical one which interprets the financial crisis in terms of the underlying crises of political and social relations in the various countries involved.
	www.eco.utexas.edu /Homepages/Faculty/Cleaver/357lsect6biblio.html (6400 words)

	ICB Project Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ver the course of the twentieth century, the onset of an interstate military-security crisis represents one of the most frequent forms of hostile interaction between adversarial states.
		It was an awareness of these limitations that led to the initiation of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project in 1975.
		Our methods are both qualitative and quantitative: in-depth studies of perceptions and decisions by a single state; and studies in breadth of the 434 crises that plagued the international system from the end of World War I to 2001, involving the participation of 956 individual states as crisis actors.
	www.icbnet.org /Info/project_information.html (428 words)

	Iraq: People come first - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Long-term stability and human rights protection in Iraq require the rule of law and transparent, accountable systems of government that are based on respect for human rights and recognition of the particular needs of women as well as ethnic and religious groups without discrimination.
		Amnesty International’s efforts to draw attention to the human rights of all the people of Iraq over the decades have frequently been greeted by indifference or hostility from government leaders who put their own political interests first.
		This Briefing, published in the wake of the 2003 war, shows that human rights must not be subject to political, economic and military interests if the long suffering of Iraq’s people is to end.
	web.amnesty.org /web/web.nsf/pages/iraq_summary (517 words)

	American Red Cross - International Services > Crisis Profile: West Africa Food Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The food crisis has forced some to forage or migrate for sustenance, exhausted many families’ resources, and exacerbated malnutrition.
		The American Red Cross is responding to the West Africa food crisis in coordination with International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (Movement) partners, including the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Federation) and the affected National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies.
		The American Red Cross role in responding to an international crisis, such as this, involves working in a coordinated manner with many global partners, taking into consideration how the organization can provide unique, specialized assistance in the areas where it can best help.
	www.redcross.org /news/in/profiles/foodcrisis_westafrica.html (1494 words)

	The International Debt Crisis
		According to international law, there was (and still is) no option for these poor countries to declare bankruptcy.
		The international debt crisis has continued to worsen since it erupted in the early 1980s.
		For example, estimates suggest that "at least half a million young children have died in the last 12 months as a result of slowing down or the reversal of progress in the developing world...
	www.osjspm.org /debt.htm (1284 words)

	Environmental Aspects of the International Crisis of Antipersonnel Landmines and the Implementation of the 1997 Mine ...
		The international landmine crisis should be understood as an ancillary element of the current international environmental crisis.
		By such reference to environmental implications, the strategic importance of environmental issues is underlined in the international humanitarian strategy to universally ban and destroy landmines.
		Be it for assessing its impact on wildlife or to evaluate atmospheric emissions by destruction of stockpile, environmental impact assessments are essential to advance in humanitarian demining in Africa and elsewhere as a pre-requisite for redevelopment after war.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2000/appendices/environment.html (1068 words)

	Suez Crisis -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		(1956), international crisis in the Middle East, precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal.
		Although not specifically mentioned in the United Nations (UN) Charter, the use of international forces as a buffer between warring parties pending troop withdrawals and negotiations—a practice that became known as peacekeeping—was formalized in 1956 during the Suez Crisis...
		The Suez crisis of 1956 began when British, French, and Israeli forces dominated Egyptian airspace by using fighter and bomber aircraft as a tactical support force for advancing ground troops.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9070161&ref=news0405arc (966 words)

	UCLA International Institute :: The Crisis in Darfur, Sudan
		John Prendergast currently represents the International Crisis Group, a prominent NGO based in Brussels.
		He said that thus far international protests have had no effect in restraining the Sudan government and the Janjaweed Arab militias that support it from destroying villages and massacring their inhabitants.
		There were in effect scarlet letters placed on their shirt and they were made international pariahs.
	www.international.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=17954 (3136 words)

	PressInfo # 219, Crisis Group. Who Pays the Piper? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		But one can't help being struck by a) the overwhelming presence of (former) politicians and diplomats, b) the virtual absence of people from academia with professional training in field conflict and peace work, and c) the degree of overlap between the governments that support the ICG and the governments these board member once served.
		Finally, Lord Patten of Barnes, Chair of Crisis Group's Board of Trustees writes in the Anniversary media release that "What Crisis Group does is to fill the need that policy-makers in national governments have for smart, honest analysis and practical proposals for preventing disaster, or at least mitigating its consequences.
		Crisis Group is not the only near-governmental organisation posing as non-governmental in the field of conflict "prevention" and peacemaking.
	www.transnational.org /pressinf/2005/pi219_IntCrisisGroup.html (1819 words)

	Suicide - Internet & International Crisis Resources and Information
		This posting is archived at: ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/suicide/ International Crisis Resources available via the Internet: The Samaritans are a non-religious charity that have been offering emotional support to the suicidal and despairing for over 40 years by phone, visit and letter.
		Communications appropriate for this list include but are not limited to exchanges of theoretical views and research activities, as well as information on clinical interventions, prevention strategies, and social and political developments pertaining to the reduction of suicide and suicide-related behaviors.
		Most major cities have a number of local crisis counselling or referral services, many of which are available 24 hours.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/suicide/resources (1066 words)

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