Alert's partner tells UN and World Bank heads why to include gender
The Network of African Women Parliamentarians and Ministers (REFAMP), International Alert's partner in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim to step up efforts to end the armed conflict in the country.
REFAMP, together with other civil society...
How to strengthen responses to climate variability
On 15 May, International Alert partnered with the International Peace Institute (IPI) to present findings on environmental change and security at a roundtable event at IPI in New York.
The findings were based on four case studies conducted in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan, as part of a DFID and USAID funded research project entitled...
New approaches to dealing with criminal violence
The first meeting of the newly formed Advisory Group for Disrupting Violent Connections took place in London on 8 May 2013. The meeting included 16 participants from academia, civil society, probation services and diplomacy.
The purpose of the advisory group is to provide a space for participants to discuss concrete and innovative approaches to...