An esteemed organization working to prevent and resolve deadly conflict around the world through field based analysis and high level advocacy, the International Crisis Group has more than 100 staff members on 5 continents generating analytical reports with recommendations targeted at key international decision makers.

The Institute for Inclusive Security works closely with Crisis Group staff to ensure that their reports contain gender analysis and call attention to the important contributions women are making to conflict prevention and resolution around the world. Inclusive Security also coordinates with Crisis Group to increase the number of women in high-level positions at the United Nations by creating and promoting rosters of qualified women.

In June 2008, Crisis Group and Inclusive Security staff advocated together for the inclusion of measures in UN Security Council Resolution 1820 that build on UNSCR 1325 to increase women’s agency in conflict.

Former Deputy President Don Steinberg also played in advocating for the implementation of UNSCR 1325 as part of its tenth anniversary, as part of the Civil Society Advisory Group to the UN on Women, Peace, and Security.

From her position on Crisis Group’s board, Inclusive Security chair Ambassador Swanee Hunt provides important gender perspectives to deliberations by the board.

• Read Former Crisis Group Deputy President Don Steinberg’s June 19, 2009 post in the Reuters Great Debate blog, “UN Resolution on Women, Peace and Security: Anniversary Worth Celebrating?”
• Read “Beyond Victimhood: Women’s Peacebuilding in Congo, Sudan, and Uganda”
• Read Crisis Group Deputy President Don Steinberg’s March 2009 address to the OSCE Round Table on Gender and Security, “Peace Missions and Gender Equality: Ten Lessons from the Ground”

For reports that particularly emphasize gender analysis, please see:

• Radical Islam in Gaza
  March 9, 2011
• Reforming Pakistan’s Electoral System
  March 30, 2011
• Reforming Afghanistan’s Broken Judiciary
  November 17, 2010
• Bangladesh: Getting Policy Reform on Track
  Decembe 11, 2009
• Policing in Afghanistan: Still Searching for a Strategy
  December 18, 2008
• Northern Uganda: The Road to Peace, With or Without Kony
  December 10, 2008
• Correcting Course: Victims and the Justice and Peace Law in Colombia
  October 30, 2008
• Reforming the Judiciary in Pakistan
  October 16, 2008
• Reforming Haiti’s Security Sector
  September 18, 2008