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New ISN Partner: Institute for Economics and Peace

New ISN Partner

The ISN happily welcomes the Institute for Economics and Peace as a new partner.

Based in Sydney, Australia, the Institute is an independent not-for-profit research organization dedicated to developing the inter-relationships between business, peace and economic development.

The Institute’s flagship project is the Global Peace Index (GPI), a yearly ranking listing 149 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. The GPI is composed of qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, which combine factors internal to a country and external to it.

The Institute for Economics and Peace conducts research in the following areas:

  • Statistical analyses to identify the structures and causes of peace;
  • Economic assessment of the value of increased levels of peacefulness to global GDP;
  • Definition and implication of the “Peace Industry”;
  • Exploration of multinational attitudinal surveys and their relevance to societal peacefulness;
  • Analyses of the relationship between peace, markets, costs and profit;
  • Investigation of the world’s most peaceful industries;
  • Development of statistical methods to determine how to calculate the probable impact of reducing levels of violence and increasing levels of peacefulness on a company’s market size.

In addition to research, the Institute also conducts education, generates dialogue, and publicizes the output of its activities with a view to impacting the public agenda.

We are very glad to have the Institute for Economics and Peace as part of the International Relations and Security Network and look forward to a fruitful cooperation.

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New ISN Partner: Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales

We are delighted to announce that the Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI) has joined our global partner network.

Based in Buenos Aires, CAEI is a civil society institution that aims to foster understanding of prominent issues on the international agenda from a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective. CAEI runs academic programs on all regions in the world, with a special focus on Latin American countries. Several thematic programs cover subjects from the history of international relations to science and technology.

CAEI’s specialty is the Program on Political Phenomenology (PPP), which aims at creating innovative ideas and making theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of area studies.

We’re thrilled to be able to extend our reach in Latin America with CAEI’s support. CAEI’s research will allow our users to get better insights into Latin American politics, as well as a different perspective on global affairs.

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New ISN Partner: Jungle Drum

Jungle Drum

The ISN is happy to announce that Jungle Drum has joined our network as a partner.

Jungle Drum is a not-for-profit information technology provider and communications consultant. It aims to provide IT solutions that boost international cooperation to effectively tackle global challenges. Jungle Drum’s broader vision is to provide the world society connected online spaces for intensified information exchange and cooperation, which can be linked across disciplinary and organizational borders.

The ISN and Jungle Drum will work together on ResolutionFinder.org, an innovative database that lets users easily browse UN resolutions and conventions by topic.

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ISN Insights: Look Back, Week Ahead

The week ahead, photo: rashida coleman-hale/flickr

Last week ISN Insights explored the following issues:

In the week ahead we’re going to be looking at: US immigration reform, Fiji’s military dictatorship, Turkey’s constitutional referendum and German defense reform, among others.

Stay tuned and keep checking the ISN site each day for the newest ISN Insights piece.

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ISN Insights: Look Back, Week Ahead

Last week ISN Insights explored the following issues:

  • In ISN Podcasts, published each Friday, Vivian Brailey-Fritschi interviewed Marta Szpala about the Bosnian elections

In the week ahead we’re going to be looking at: The booming assassination business in Mexico, the preliminary findings of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission, the reintegration of female combatants and FARC’s organizational challenges in the wake of a key leader’s assassination.

Keep checking the ISN website each day for the newest edition of ISN Insights and remember to check the blog on Mondays – we’ll be highlighting our past and future offerings at the start of the week.