Global Security Network

In order to generate a deeper understanding of today's security challenges, highlight opportunities for creating a less vulnerable, more secure world, and reach a broad audience of policy makers as well as concerned citizens, Worldwatch is working with an extensive, international network of organizations that have an extensive understanding on global security issues. The nature and purpose of these efforts range from research and publishing, to brainstorming and strategic planning exercises, to outreach and communications activities.

Click on a region below to explore some of these organizations and their work in more depth.

Global Organizations
North America
South America
Europe
Asia
Africa
Middle East

Global Organizations (Back to Top)

United Nations Environment Programme
Headquarters: Kenya
Main site: www.unep.org; Post-Conflict Unit site: postconflict.unep.ch.
UNEP provides leadership and encourages partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.

Heinrich Böll Foundation
Headquarters: Germany
www.boell.de; www.boell.org (in DC)]
The Boell Foundation promotes democratic ideas, civil society and international understanding, works on core political values of ecology, democracy, solidarity, gender equality, and non-violence.

Green Cross International
Headquarters: U.S.
www.globalgreen.org
Green Cross International fosters a global value shift toward a sustainable, secure world through education, advocacy, partnerships, and programs focused on the safe elimination of weapons of mass destruction, climate change, reducing resource use, and conflicts over fresh water.

North America (Back to Top)

United States

GLOBE International
www.globeinternational.org
Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment International works to enhance awareness in parliaments of international environmental policy and legislation that supports such policy.

Environmental Change & Security Project (ECSP), Woodrow Wilson Center
www.wilsoncenter.org/ecsp
ECSP explores the connections among these major environmental issues, such as population growth, and their links to conflict, human insecurity, and foreign policy.

Population Action International
www.populationaction.org
PAI works to advance awareness of the linkages between population, reproductive health, the environment and development, while also working to facilitate international policy development.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace www.carnegieendowment.org/npp/ The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a nongovernmental organization dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations, promoting active international engagement by the United States, and advocating for nonproliferation.

Canada

Human Security Center (U. of Vancouver)
www.ligi.ubc.ca/chs.htm / www.humansecurityreportinfo.org
The Human Security Center is centered around policy research and advocacy, the major project is annual Human Security Report, which maps causes, severity and consequences of global violence and provides policy recommendations.

International Institute for Sustainable Development
www.iisd.org/natres/security/envsec/
The International Institute for Sustainable Development contributes to sustainable development by advancing policy recommendations on trade, economic policy, climate change, and natural resources management. IISD's activities also include an Environment and Security program.

South America (Back to Top)

Brazil

Worldwatch Institute—Universidade Mata Atlantica (UMA)
www.wwiuma.org.br
WWI-UMA is Worldwatch's Brazilian partner, and publisher of State of the World, Vital Signs, World Watch Magazine, and Worldwatch Papers.

Viva Rio / Training Center for Human Security
www.vivario.org.br
Viva Rio organizes peace campaigns and social projects with a specific focus on the youth, working with local organizations in some 350 favelas and other low-income communities to overcome violence and social exclusion throughout Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian Forum of Environment & Development
www.fboms.org.br/
The Brazilian Forum is a diverse network formed for a more socially and environmentally just society.

Argentina

Educating Cities Latin America
www.edcities.ben.es/ , www.global-economy.info/International_Association_Educating_Cities_Market_Politics.htm
Association guiding cities to adopt as a goal and responsibility, the education, advancement, and development of all its inhabitants.

Ecuador

Fundacion Futuro Latinoamericano
www.ffla.net
Regional nonprofit that fosters sustainable development by creating multisector political dialogues, bringing together diverse actors to generate consensus.

Costa Rica

University for Peace, Costa Rica
www.upeace.org
The University offers various Masters programs concerning peace and sustainable development.

Europe (Back to Top)

Spain

CIP / Fundacion Hogar del Empleado
www.fuhem.es
CIP is a center of analysis of global issues focusing on international education, peace, relations, human rights, ecology, development and economy.

UNESCO Center of Catalonia
www.unescocat.org
The UNESCO Center of Catalonia publicizes ideals, documents and activities of UNESCO, offers UNESCO contributions of the Catalan cultural community, and provides technical services for some UNESCO international projects.

UK

International Institute for Environment and Development
www.iied.org
IIED promotes sustainable patterns of global development through collaborative research, policy studies, networking and knowledge dissemination.

Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House)
www.riia.org/sustainabledevelopment/
RIAA works to stimulate debate and research on political, business, security and other key issues in the international arena.

Global Policy Project
www.globalpolicyproject.org
The Global Policy Project promotes reform and policy coherence in affluent countries’ policies to benefit developing countries, working through existing institutions and networks to advocate, support and evaluate research.

Germany

Germanwatch
www.germanwatch.org
Germanwatch is actively engaged in directing German political policy towards sustainability for the countries of the South as well as those of the North.

Adelphi Research
www.adelphi-research.de
Adelphi develops and implements sustainable development strategies through applied research, analysis, and public policy consulting.

BICC - Bonn International Center for Conversion
www.bicc.de
BICC provides research and consultancy services dedicated to promoting peace and peaceful development through the effective transformation of military-related processes, functions, activities, assets and structures.

France

Institut du Developpement Durable et de Relations Internationales
www.iddri.org/iddri/
The institute fosters a dialogue of policy makers, the scientific community, NGOs, and businesses in order to inspire collective action on climate change, biodiversity, agriculture, forests, socio-environmental responsibility, and security.

Netherlands

Institute for Environmental Security
www.envirosecurity.org
The Institute works to advance global environmental security, and protect and maintain ecosystems by integrating science, diplomacy, law, finance, and education.

Sweden

EDC Newsletter
www.edcnews.se
EDC disseminates news of research and case studies of sustainable development issues.

Norway

PRIO - Peace Research Institute Oslo
www.prio.no
PRIO focuses on promoting peace through dissemination of theoretical and empirical research, policy-oriented activities, and solution-based research.

Poland

Polish Institute for Sustainable Development
www.zb.eco.pl/gb/18/institut.htm
The Institute works to promote, develop and implement sustainable development, focusing especially on economics and geography issues in Poland.

Greece

Biopolitics International Organization
www.biopolitics.gr
BIO works to promote a shift from anthropocentric to a biocentric orientation of global society, focusing on international policy and education efforts.

Asia (Back to Top)

Japan

Worldwatch Japan
www.worldwatch-japan.org/
Worldwatch Japan is Worldwatch's Japanese partner and publisher of State of the World, Vital Signs, World Watch Magazine, and Worldwatch Papers.

China

Global Environmental Institute
GEI focuses on human habitats, climate change, biodiversity, human consumption, the natural world, and economic advancement.

Sub-Saharan Africa (Back to Top)

Kenya

African Center for Technology Studies
www.acts.or.ke
ACTS works to promote scientific and technological literacy, human health, agriculture and food security, energy and water security, biodiversity and environmental governance.

Middle East (Back to Top)

Egypt

Arab Network for Environment and Development
www.aoye.org
The Arab Network facilitates an exchange of skills, experience and information, implements grassroots activities, and links community to government to foster sustainable development.

Israel

Heschel Center for Environmental Learning and Leadership
www.heschelcenter.org
The Heschel Center helps to build the social- environmental movement in Israel, supply fundamental solutions, and provide critically-needed information and analysis in Hebrew.

Jordan, Palestine, Israel

Friends of the Earth Middle East
www.foeme.org
FOEME works to bring together regional environmentalists to cooperate to advance sustainable regional development and lasting peace in the region.