Global Security and Development Links
Security and Development
BOND
BOND publication: Europe in the World: Essays on EU foreign, security and development policies Contributors range from academics to activists.
Christian Aid
New Christian Aid publication, The Politics of Aid, analyses impacts of the 'war on terror' on official development assistance.
Oxfam
Recent Oxfam publication, Beyond the Headlines, explores the 'forgotten crises' ignored in the focus on strategic regions and countries under the 'Global War on Terror'.
OECD
OECD Donor Assistance Committee Conflict, Peace and Development Co-operation Network. International forum where conflict and peacebuilding experts from bilateral and multilateral development agencies define common approaches on peace and security issues.
Overseas Development Institute
ODI Humanitarian Policy Group publication exploring humanitarian issues including the situation in Afghanistan, challenges facing NGOs and Islamic charities: Humanitarian action and the 'global war on terror': a review of trends and issues
Counter-Terrorism
UN
United Nations Action Against Terrorism
Information on the UN's work on terrorism. Includes links to the UN Counter Terrorism Committee, other relevant UN bodies and documents.
RAND
Report examining development policies enacted by Israel, the Philippines and the United Kingdom to tackle terrorism within their jurisdictions: Terrorism and Development: Using economic and social development to inhibit a resurgence of terrorism
Centre for Defence Studies
Essay by Karin Von Hippel, King's College, Centre for Defence Studies, for BOND on EU external relations and counter-terrorism: Europe confronts transnational terrorism
Poverty and Terrorism
Essay by academics on the debate regarding the linkage between poverty and terrorism:
Professor Ethan Bueno de Mesquita 'The Quality of Terrorism'
Alan B. Krueger and Jitka Maleckova 'The economics and the education of suicide bombers'
Human Rights
Amnesty International
Amnesty International's Annual Report 2003 looks at how the 'war on terror' is affecting human rights in many parts of the world.
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch report to the 59th Session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, March 25, 2003: In the Name of Counter-Terrorism: Human Rights Abuses Worldwide
Arms Trade and Military Aid
Human Rights Watch
In February 2002 Human Rights Watch released a report, "Dangerous Dealings: Changes in U.S. Military Assistance After September 11" claiming that Congress had degraded human rights policy by lifting sanctions on arms transfers to countries with poor human rights records and by cutting required approval times for such transfers.
Saferworld
In 2002 foreign affairs think tank, Saferworld, in a memo to the House of Commons Quadripartite Select Committeee (made up of the Foreign Affairs, Defence, International Development, and Trade and Industry Committees), stated that UK arms export controls were being relaxed in the 'war on terror'.
Human Security
The Canadian Consortium on Human Security
(CCHS) is an academic-based network promoting policy-relevant research on human security. CCHS produce a quarterly online publication, Human Security Bulletin.
Global Environmental Change and Human Security at the University of California, Irvine
Research centre which looks at Terrorism, Conflict, and Human Security issues.
Recent papers from Oxford University Centre for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity include A Conceptual Framework for Human Security and a paper by Frances Stewart on Security and Development.
Paper by Professor Mark Duffield of the University of Lancaster critiquing the human security paradigm in NGO advocacy and donor policy: Human Security and Global Danger: Exploring a Governmental Assemblage.
Security and Defence
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
BASIC is a research institute that analyses government policies and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies.
International Security Information Service
The International Security Information Service (UK) provides information and analysis on international security and defence. Its primary purpose is to improve national parliamentary scrutiny of foreign and security policy.
Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
RUSI is an institute carrying out research and policy analysis on all issues relating to national and international defence and security.