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Brazil
Instituto Igarapé
The Igarapé Institute is an independent think and do tank based in Rio de Janeiro, devoted to integrating security, climate and development agendas. It focuses on citizen security, digital security, climate security and drug policy, combining research, new technologies and partnerships with governments and civil society across Latin America and beyond to propose data-driven solutions for preventing and reducing violence.
Cambodia
Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) is a Cambodia-based organisation, located in Siem Reap, working in the field of peacebuilding and conflict transformation across Asia. Established in response to a commitment to strengthen, support and share Asian approaches to conflict transformation, CPCS combines direct engagement in peace processes with research, publications and the Applied Conflict Transformation Studies MA programme, and convenes the annual Asian Peace Practitioners' Research Conference.
Canada
Project Ploughshares
Project Ploughshares is a Canadian peace research institute founded in 1976 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, operating as an agency of the Canadian Council of Churches. It conducts research and advocacy on the arms trade, nuclear disarmament, emerging military technologies including autonomous weapons, and outer space security, working to advance policies that prevent war and armed violence.
Colombia
CINEP - Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular
The Centro de Investigación y Educación Popular / Programa por la Paz (CINEP/PPP) is a Jesuit-founded research centre based in Bogotá that has documented conflict, human rights violations and social movements in Colombia since 1972. It maintains one of the country's most important databases on political violence, accompanies grassroots communities, and produces research and popular education on peace, territory and social justice.
Instituto CAPAZ - German-Colombian Peace Institute
The German-Colombian Peace Institute (CAPAZ) is an academic cooperation platform founded in 2016 in the wake of the Colombian peace agreement. Supported by a consortium of Colombian and German universities, CAPAZ promotes research, teaching and knowledge transfer on peacebuilding, transitional justice and the implementation of the peace accords, serving as a bridge between academic communities in both countries.
Costa Rica
University for Peace (UPEACE)
The University for Peace is an international university established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1980 and headquartered near San José, Costa Rica. UPEACE provides postgraduate education, research and knowledge dissemination on peace and conflict studies, environmental security, international law and gender, training generations of peacebuilders from around the world under its treaty mandate to promote the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence.
Cyprus
Cyprus Dialogue Forum
The Cyprus Dialogue Forum is a non-formal dialogue space that aims to support and complement the formal peace process in Cyprus. It consists of stakeholder organisations from across the island that include the Political Parties, Trade Unions, Business and Employer Associations and Non-Governmental Organisations. It is a safe space for broad based participation and knowledge sharing that has been created to act as an accompanying mechanism to the formal peace process.
Czechia
Peace Research Center Prague
Peace Research Center Prague is an interdisciplinary Center of Excellence, funded by Charles University. Their common analytical and normative focus is on the prevention, management, and transformation of conflicts in world politics. Their mission is: advancing theoretical and empirical knowledge in peace and conflict studies; building a permanent platform for collaborative interdisciplinary research; providing an opportunity for junior scholars to develop their academic career.
Djibouti
Intergovernmental Authority on Development
IGAD promotes joint development strategies and gradually harmonize macro-economic policies and programmes in the social, technological and scientific fields; Harmonizes policies with regard to trade, customs, transport, communications, agriculture, and natural resources and environment, and promotes free movement of goods, services, and people within the region. Creates an enabling environment for foreign, cross-border and domestic trade and investment; Initiates and promote programmes and projects to achieve regional food security and sustainable development of natural resources and environmental protection, and encourage and assist efforts of Member States to collectively combat drought and other natural and man-made disasters and their consequences; Develops and improves a coordinated and complementary infrastructure, in the areas of transport, telecommunications and energy in the region; Promotes peace and stability in the region and create mechanisms within the region for the prevention, management and resolution of inter-State and intra-State conflicts through dialogue; Mobilizes resources for the implementation of emergency, short-term, medium-term and long-term programmes within the framework of regional cooperation; Facilitates, promotes and strengthens cooperation in research development and application in science and technology. Provides capacity building and training at regional and national levels; and generate and disseminate development information in the region
Ethiopia
Amani Africa
Amani Africa Media and Research Services is anindependent pan-African policy research, training andconsulting think tank with expertise on the African Unionpolicy processes and a specialization on the African UnionPeace and Security Council (AU PSC).