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Overview of the all-new Microsoft 365 compliance center
If you're interested in your organization's compliance posture, you're going to love the new Microsoft 365 compliance center. The Microsoft 365 compliance center provides easy access to the data and tools you need to manage to your organization's compliance needs.
Read this article to get acquainted with the Microsoft 365 compliance center, how to get it, frequently asked questions, and your next steps.
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When you go to your Microsoft 365 compliance center for the first time, you'll be greeted with the following welcome message:
The welcome banner gives you some pointers on how to get started, with next steps and an invitation for you to give us feedback.
The Assess section
The Assess section on the home page shows you at a glance how your organization is doing with respect to data protection and compliance.
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The Protect section on the home page contains cards that provide you with high-level information about labels, data loss prevention (DLP), third-party apps in use, shared files, shadow IT apps, and so on.
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In addition to links in cards on the home page, you'll find a navigation pane on the left side of the screen that gives you easy access to your alerts, reports, policies, compliance solutions, and more.
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Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria, bringing an abrupt end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the ISIS but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday said American troops from Syria are coming back home after defeating the Islamic State jihadists and "local countries" like Turkey should now be able to take care of the situation in the war-ravaged nation. Trump on Wednesday announced the withdrawal of 2,000 US troops from Syria, bringing an abrupt end to a military campaign that largely vanquished the ISIS but ceding a strategically vital country to Russia and Iran.
His declared victory over the IS contradicted assessments by his own experts, with many lawmakers calling his decision rash and dangerous. "On Syria, we were originally going to be there for three months, and that was seven years ago – we never left. When I became President, ISIS was going wild," Trump tweeted.
"Now ISIS is largely defeated and other local countries, including Turkey, should be able to easily take care of whatever remains. We're coming home!" he added. Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from Syria triggered resignation of his Defence secretary James Mattis who said Trump needs someone in the position with "views better aligned" with those of the president.
On Saturday, Brett McGurk, the US envoy to the global coalition fighting the ISIS, resigned in protest to Trump's decision. Few days ago, McGurk had said it would be "reckless" to consider IS defeated and therefore would be unwise to bring American forces home. Trump, who was scheduled to travel to Florida on Saturday to spend his Christmas and New Year holidays, was at the White House having meetings and talks with the Democrats on border security and government shutdown.
"I am in the White House, working hard. News reports concerning the Shutdown and Syria are mostly FAKE. We are negotiating with the Democrats on desperately needed Border Security (Gangs, Drugs, Human Trafficking & more) but it could be a long stay," he tweeted.
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The Anti-Hero isn't a modern invention, thousands of years ago Jonah was the Anti-Hero of his own story. An inspired story in the pages of scripture, no less! Jonah's story is in the Bible to hold up a mirror to ourselves and ask if our hearts reflect Jonah's twisted heart for the world or God's compassionate heart.
God, the Hero, speaks first in Jonah's tale. "Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me,"[i] God directs Jonah. "But Jonah rose to flee to Tarshish"[ii] (in the exact opposite direction, over sea instead of over land).
"Arise!" we hear for the second time in the narrative from the godless captain of Jonah's boat as the ship is pounded by the relentless sea. The captain shows the depths of God's prophet rebellion when the pagan directs the Jewish prophet to "call out to your god!"[iii]
Into the dark sea Noah is tossed and swallowed by a great fish. Following his repentance he is spat out onto the ground. And the Hero returns, "Arise, go to Nineveh," he repeats, as if to make sure that Noah has no doubt that his mission has not expired.
Are you stubbornly refusing the call of the Hero of your story? Where is he calling you to arise to? God is calling you to move. For many of us, we are docked on our couches. We need to move. We need to arise. For many of us, even though we walk into our workplace every day, we hunker down, put our head down, and disengage from our coworkers.
It's easy to hear the call to "Arise" and functionally opt out. It's not so much that we refuse to go, we just don't opt in. Our lives are magnificently structured to push back at this call. Everything about our lives screams "Sit, stay" not "Arise, go." We sit and stay instead of getting up. The inertia of life pushes against this call. The force of the couch and the television is strong.
We even use our personalities to opt out of the call to arise. As someone who falls on the introverted side of the spectrum it's healthy that I know that I'm energized by time alone, by reading books and working out. But that can serve as a ready excuse, where I pull back from others and don't press into the lives of neighbors and friends as I'm called.
We live isolated lives. Who spends time on their front porch any longer? Chairs on our front porch are just decoration. Our automatic garage doors are ingenious inventions that protect us from having to have a conversation with our neighbors. We share fewer communal meals. Fewer conversations. Faces exchanged for screens. We stay.[iv]
Since we're in a new neighborhood, we've been trying to greet every new person who has moved in. It's funny how people respond to their doorbell being rung. Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco has a great bit about this.[v] 20 years ago when your doorbell rang, you responded with joy: "it's company! The whole family went to the door." Nobody looked to see who it was, you just opened up the door. "I was in the neighborhood, I thought I might stop by." Today, everyone freezes and hopes they go away. These days when your doorbell rings you assume it's either someone selling something, someone trying to get your signature for something political, or a Jehovah's Witness. It's a lot different than it was even when I grew up. Our world is built to protect us from other people. We have back patios with fences, not front porches with an extra rocking chair for a neighbor.
Even our homes are built to "sit and stay" not "arise and go."
It is going to require work, effort to transform what has become so ingrained in how we live. It's going to be hard to arise. We need a reason. We won't put down screens and choose people out of sheer will. What will cause us to arise is when the person we are arising to go toward we care deeply about. When our reflects the care God has for every human being.
Who are those people who God is calling you to arise and go toward? Think of one or two or three names. Not groups of people, but individuals God has placed in your life. And arise.
Walk over to your neighbor who you wanted to bring brownies to when they moved in, but that was a year ago and now you're embarrassed. And bring them those brownies! They'll still love them. Invite your cubicle mate over for dinner. Listen. Learn about their family and about their background.
Arise, Christian.
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[i] Jonah 1:2
[ii] Jonah 1:3
[iii] Jonah 1:6
[iv] In Robert Putnam's book, Bowling Alone, which is now 17 years old, he reported the rapid decline in social engagement in clubs, family dinners, and having friends over. He reports decline in attendance at club meetings: 58%; family dinners: 43%; having friends over: 35%. http://bowlingalone.com/
[v] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Swzvm-gXHg.
For more on the Lessons From an Anti-Hero series, see:
Part 1: Lessons from an Anti-Hero
Part 2: Lessons from an Anti-Hero: Arise
Part 3: Lessons from an Anti-Hero: Go
Part 4: Lessons from an Anti-Hero: Speak


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2013 Review | Plans for 2014
Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and
Ambassador to Turkey
Ko Annan
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations;
Nobel Peace Prize (2001)
Nahum Barnea
Chief Columnist for Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel
Samuel Berger
Chair, Albright Stonebridge Group LLC;
Former U.S. National Security Adviser
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Former President of the Swiss Confederation and
Foreign Affairs Minister
Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander (Europe)
Sheila Coronel
Toni Stabile Professor of Practice in Investigative
Journalism; Director, Toni Stabile Center for Investigative
Journalism, Columbia University, U.S.
Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium
Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany
Lykke Friis
Former Climate & Energy Minister and Minister of
Gender Equality of Denmark; Former Prorector at the
University of Copenhagen
Jean-Marie Guhenno
Arnold Saltzman Professor of War and Peace Studies,
Columbia University; Former UN Under-Secretary-General
for Peacekeeping Operations
Lena Hjelm-Walln
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden
Mo Ibrahim
Founder and Chair, Mo Ibrahim Foundation; Founder,
Celtel International
Asma Jahangir
President of the Supreme Court Bar Association of
Pakistan, Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom
of Religion or Belief
Wadah Khanfar
Co-Founder, Al Sharq Forum; Former Director General,
Al Jazeera Network
Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands
Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile
Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Former International Secretary of PEN International;
Novelist and journalist, U.S.
Lalit Mansingh
Former Foreign Secretary of India, Ambassador to
the U.S. and High Commissioner to the UK
Benjamin Mkapa
Former President of Tanzania
Laurence Parisot
President, French Business Confederation (MEDEF)
Karim Raslan
Founder, Managing Director and Chief Executive Ofcer
of KRA Group
Paul Reynolds
President & Chief Executive Ofcer, Canaccord Financial Inc.
Javier Solana
Former EU High Representative for Common Foreign
and Security Policy, NATO Secretary General and
Foreign Minister of Spain
Liv Monica Stubholt
Senior Vice President for Strategy and Communication,
Kvaerner ASA; Former State Secretary for the Norwegian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Lawrence H. Summers
Former Director of the U.S. National Economic Council
and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury; President Emeritus of
Harvard University
Wang Jisi
Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University;
Member, Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the Chinese
Foreign Ministry
Wu Jianmin
Executive Vice Chairman, China Institute for Innovation and
Development Strategy; Member, Foreign Policy Advisory
Committee of the Chinese Foreign Ministry; Former
Ambassador of China to the UN (Geneva) and France
Lionel Zinsou
CEO, PAI Partners
Chairmen Emeriti
Martti Ahtisaari
Former President of Finland
George J. Mitchell
Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader
President Emeritus
Gareth Evans
Vice Chairs
Ayo Obe
Legal Practitioner, Lagos, Nigeria
Ghassan Salam
Dean, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po
Other Executive Committee members
Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK
and Secretary General of the ANC
Maria Livanos Cattaui
Former Secretary-General of the International Chamber
of Commerce
Frank Giustra
President & CEO, Fiore Financial Corporation
George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute
Pr Stenbck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland
President and CEO
Louise Arbour
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and
Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for
the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Mark Malloch-Brown
Former UN Deputy Secretary-General and Administrator of
the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Thomas R. Pickering
Former U.S. Under Secretary of State; Ambassador to the
UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria
From the Co-Chairs 2
From the President 3
Mission and Method: Field Work, Analysis, Advocacy 4
Operations around the World 6
Africa : Fraught Elections and Regional Diplomacy 8
Asia: Some National Conicts Cool, Regional Dynamics Change 10
Europe & Central Asia : Challenges to Central Power 12
Latin America & Caribbean : Promoting Rule of Law and
Political Solutions 14
Middle East & North Africa : One Breakthrough, Many Stalemates 16
Advocacy and Communications 18
Funding in 2013 20
Statement of Activities 23
Acknowledgements 24
Inside back cover : Crisis Group Staff
Cover images
Top : Irans President-elect Hassan
Rouhani at a press conference in
Tehran, 17 June 2013. ANADOLU/
Fatemeh Bahrami.
Middle : A wall with paintings urging
peace in Colombia. CRISIS GROUP/
Christian Voelkel.
Bottom left : Abu Mahmoud, a 60-
year-old Free Syrian Army ghter,
carries his weapon as he waits for his
son inside a house in the old city of
Aleppo, 22 November 2013. REUTERS/
Molhem Barakat.
Bottom right : A youth squats inside
a burnt-out car in the Central African
Republic capital, Bangui, 10 December
2013. REUTERS/Emmanuel Braun.
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A lot happened in 2013, from political break-
throughs in Kosovo, Colombia and Iran to
massacres in Syria and state breakdowns in
South Sudan and Central African Repub-
lic. There was no obvious pattern to any
of this. The rise of emerging markets
ap peared less commanding than it once
had. Coordination among major powers
was sometimes impressive as in Kosovo
and on Iran, or with the French-led effort in
Mali but continued to seem ad hoc. With
the United States cautious of engagement
and China forceful in its own region but
reticent of engagement beyond, the only
two powers anxious to make themselves felt
outside their own backyards were Russia
and France.
This left a volatile global political environ-
ment lacking clear leadership. Where there
are solutions they are increasingly local
and regional, not driven from the traditional
capitals. That poses new challenges and
opportunities for International Crisis Group.
Its impressive record of anticipating conicts
made it indispensable once again for gov-
ernment ofcials and the many others who
needed to make quick, informed decisions
in this fast-moving world. But the decision-
makers it needs to reach are now less than
ever a club of Western policymakers.
Thomas R. Pickering is a former U.S. Under Secretary
of State for Political Affairs and Ambassador to the UN,
India, Russia, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria and Jordan.
Mark Malloch-Brown is a former UN Deputy Secretary-
General and Administrator of the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP).
Rather, each crisis has its own circle of
policy brokers who have to be reached.
On Syria, to take one pressing instance,
reaching the U.S. and Russia remains
important but it is as important to reach
ofcials in Tehran, Riyadh, Doha and Ankara.
For Crisis Group, 2013 was also a passage
of sorts as eld operations were folded up
in the Balkans, where Crisis Group had its
beginnings almost two decades ago. At the
same time our pursuit of new ash points
that might be leading indicators of violent
conict entailed expanding our work across
the Sahel, in Mexico and in the Caucasus.
Our distinctive approach, combining eld-
based analysis, relevant and pointed policy
recommendations and public and private
advocacy, relies on our remarkable staff,
whose painstaking work protects and en -
hances Crisis Groups most precious asset:
an unmatched reputation for objectivity. The
steady increase in Crisis Groups audience
throughout 2013 shows that interest in our
work is only growing.
We want to extend a very special thanks
to our outgoing President and CEO,
Louise Arbour, who has guided Crisis
Group through the past ve years with a
steady hand together with real passion
for our mission. Her piercing intelligence,
her humour, her commitment, her deep
experience and wise counsel have been
invaluable as Crisis Group has fought to
prevent or resolve conict. We have been
privileged to work with her and hope she
will continue her association with Crisis
Group as it enters a new era.
We also want to thank our supporters:
individuals, corporations, foundations and
governments. This past year was another
one of belt-tightening at institutions and
ofcial agencies, and Crisis Groups budget
did not escape the general austerity. We had
to make some difcult choices. Helped by
our supporters generosity we have emerged
stronger. The need for Crisis Groups work
is greater than ever. We hope you will join us
in helping meet that need.
Washington DC and London,
1 February 2014
Lord Mark Malloch-Brown
Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering
This past year confounded many hopes.
The Arab uprisings struggled onward, but
Egyp tians and Libyans experienced disap-
pointments as deep as their expectations
had once been high. New administrations
in China and Japan made a tense region
tenser as they managed nationalist upsurg-
es. A decade of profound international effort
in Afghanistan seemed to be drawing to a
close more with a sense of dissatisfaction
than of triumph.
In the international community, hopes went
unmet as democratic governance halted its
long post-Cold War trend of upward growth.
The street sought to replace the ballot as the
source of democratic legitimacy. Authoritar-
ianism reasserted itself. So did nationalism
in Europe and radicalisation elsewhere. The
International Criminal Court faced strong,
increasingly organised resistance in Africa
as the court entered its second decade. The
UN Security Councils failure to act on Syria
continued to take a heavy toll, carrying with
it the high expec tations once generated by
the doctrine of the responsibility to protect.
Is the system fatally broken? No. But in
2013 it became obvious that doctrines and
institutions alike require serious rethinking.
In this questioning year Crisis Group
reafrmed its core mission: to provide
on-the-ground analysis and detailed policy
prescriptions to prevent or resolve violent
conicts. As geopolitical generalisations
weakened, we stuck to specics.
On 2 January 2013 we published an alert
about the advance of Seleka forces in
Central African Republic. We reported on
this forgotten conict throughout the year,
and when it reached the point where it was
no longer forgotten our eldwork informed
the many actors who rushed to nd
Our commitment to rigorous research and
advocacy on reform in Myanmar, once
so controversial, continued to bear fruit
and when reform faltered our principled
engagement included well-researched,
rm criticism.
Louise Arbour served as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from
2004 to 2008 and Chief Prosecutor for International Criminal Tribunals for the former
Yugoslavia and Rwanda from 1996 to 1999. She has been President and CEO
of Crisis Group since July 2009.
In Colombia, years of Crisis Group work on
the long conict between the government
and FARC guerrillas culminated in detailed
recommendations to aid peace negotiations.
There again, we strove to offer concrete
ways to reach both justice and peace with-
out sacricing one to the other.
Patient, detailed work on the sanctions
regime imposed on Iran proved, when the
tide turned, invaluable in helping identify the
path toward reducing tensions.
We were also able to expand our horizons,
addressing new, emerging or potential
crisis situations, whether in Niger or Burkina
Faso as part of our increasing focus on
the Sahel or in Mexico, where our study of
vigilantism in Michoacn state foretold a tale
now very much in the public eye.
That we have this exibility is very much
down to the generous support of our
donors. These are challenging times and
Crisis Group has not escaped the buffeting.
But your commitment to our work, and belief
in our mandate, has helped ensure that
we have been able to continue covering,
on every continent, not just conicts in the
headlines but also those wrongly ignored,
often at great cost.
In this past year, our model of eldwork on
the worlds violent conicts undertaken
under difcult conditions and usually with
no obvious prospect of immediate success
proved itself again. As I reach the end of
my own tenure as President and CEO of
Crisis Group, it is my privilege to reafrm
that mission and salute the remarkable
people around the world who have made
it their own.
Brussels, 1 February 2014
Louise Arbour, President and CEO
Crisis Group decides which situations to cover based on a number of factors. These include:
the seriousness of a situation, whether we can add value to international understanding
and response, whether we have or can raise the necessary resources to ensure high-quality
reporting and effective follow-through, and whether we can safely operate in the eld.
X Operating in the eld Crisis Groups analysts are drawn mostly from experienced former diplomats, journalists,
academics and NGO staff, often leading world experts in their areas. Of 116 positions
on 1 February 2014, 63 were based in the eld in 26 locations. Others worked from our
Brussels head ofce and other key regional ofces. Security for our eld staff is monitored
by a security team that meets on an ongoing basis.
X Determining policy In the initial drafting of reports and brieng papers, eld analysts work with our regional
program directors. A research and advocacy team in Brussels also provides input, espe-
cially on EU and NATO developments, while our Washington and New York advocacy
ofces assist with U.S. and UN perspectives, supplementing our national and regional
advocacy in Beijing, Istanbul, Johannesburg, Nairobi and elsewhere. The policy prescrip-
tions attached to Crisis Group reports are settled with input from eld and senior staff, and
Board members, as well as consultation with governments, inter-governmental organisa-
tions, academics and other think-tanks and NGOs.
X Getting the story out Strong advocacy means effective communication. Crisis Group reports and brieng papers
go to tens of thousands of targeted recipients (including government ministers, heads of
international agencies, diplomats and ofcials in key roles, and journalists) as well as to
the more than 200,000 subscribers who request specic types of mailings online. We also
maintained top-level public exposure through quality mainstream media worldwide, an
extensive social media presence, and inuential commentary published in multiple
X High-level advocacy Much of Crisis Groups most successful advocacy is done behind closed doors, requiring
access to policymakers in major international centres and in the regions where we operate.
In 2013, ofces in Brussels, Washington and New York continued to ensure Crisis Group
has the access and inuence at the highest levels of the U.S. and European governments,
as well as with the UN, EU and NATO. Our Beijing and Moscow ofces ensure Crisis
Groups inuence in China and Russia. Our teams spread out over ofces in ve continents
have increased Crisis Groups worldwide access and impact.
Policy and Operations
Crisis Group Approach: Three Basic Elements
Expert eld research
and analysis
Crisis Groups credibility is
founded on its eld-based research.
Our analysts are based in or near many
of the worlds trouble spots, where
there is concern about the possible
outbreak of conict, its escalation or
recurrence. Their main task is to nd
out what is happening and why. They
identify the underlying political, social
and economic factors creating the con-
ditions for conict, as well as the more
immediate causes of tension. They nd
the people who matter and discover
what or who inuences them. And they
consider the actual and potential role
for other countries and inter-govern-
mental bodies like the United Nations,
European Union and African Union.
Practical, imaginative
policy prescriptions
Crisis Groups task is not
merely to understand conict but to pre-
vent, contain and resolve it. That means
identifying the levers that can be pulled
and those who can pull them, whether
political, legal, nancial or ultimately,
military. Some of these prescriptions
require action by the national govern-
ment or local actors; others require the
commitment of other governments or
international organisations. Some will
be within the current marketplace of
received ideas; others will be over the
horizon but nonetheless the right way
forward. These policy prescriptions,
along with our eld-based research
and analysis, are presented in succinct,
timely and readable reports.
Effective, high-level
Identifying the problem and
the appropriate response is still only
part of the story. All too often the
missing ingredient is the political will
to take the necessary action. Crisis
Groups task is not to lament its
absence but to work out how to
mobilise it. That means persuading
policymakers directly or through others
who inuence them, not least the
media. That in turn means having the
right arguments: moral, political, legal
and nancial. And it means having the
ability to effectively deploy those
arguments, with people of the right
credibility and capacity. Crisis Groups
board is instrumental in giving us
access at high levels of governments.
Left: President Arbour and Latin America and Caribbean Program Director Javier Ciurlizza (closest to podium)
launching the report Transitional Justice and Colombias Peace Talks at the Universidad Externado de Colombia
in Bogot. CRISIS GROUP/Anna Crowe. Below: Crisis Group North Africa Project Director Issandr El Amrani (far
right) meets with Libyan militia members in Sidra, Libya. CRISIS GROUP/Claudia Gazzini.
The International Crisis Groups
ground-based and solutions-
oriented research in conicts (and
potential conicts) around the world
consistently provides unique insight
for policymakers, journalists, and
diplomats alike.
Amjad Atallah, Regional Director for the Americas,
Al Jazeera Media Network
In addition to the above countries, CrisisWatch monitoring covers
China (internal)
Equatorial Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Republic of Congo
Saudi Arabia
Sierra Leone
South Africa
Spain (Basque
United Kingdom
(Northern Ireland)
Western Sahara
Countries covered by eld analysts (coverage planned for 2014)
Bosnia and
Burkina Faso
Central African
Cte dIvoire
DR Congo
North Korea
Russia (North
South Korea
South Sudan
Sri Lanka
We will be updating our earlier work on
insecurity in the Gulf of Guinea, and looking
at the political situation in Cameroon as
it considers how to handle a transition
from the 31 years of rule by Paul Biya. The
crisis in the Central African Republic will
continue to command attention as regional
and international bodies attempt to repair
the collapsed state. The evolution of the
UN intervention brigade in the Democratic
Republic of Congo with its unusually
robust military mandate will be the focus
of a special report, along with continuation
Religious antagonism, including jihadi ter-
rorism, exacerbated some conicts in Africa.
Even the political coup in Central African
Republic ended with Christian and Mus-
lim militias confronting each other. There
was much anticipation of election violence
but the year included unexpectedly peace-
ful polls in Mali and Kenya, and an expect-
edly questionable one in Zimbabwe at the
end of July (our report Election Scenarios
came out in May, Mugabes Last Stand in
July). Regional institutions like the Economic
Community of Central African States found
themselves in prominent roles, as did the
African Union.
In Mali the year might be said to have begun
with Frances Operation Serval, which turned
back a military offensive by somewhat allied
jihadi and Tuareg forces and helped recap-
ture Malis northern cities for the government
in Bamako. That was perhaps the easy part:
political and social reconstruction moved
forward only tentatively (considered in our
April and June reports), and violent jihadis
are regrouping in Malis hinterland and in
other countries in the region. Crisis Groups
advocacy included meetings by President
Arbour with government leaders in Bamako
and numerous articles and interviews, nota-
bly in Le Monde.
strong economic growth. We have focused
rst on the troubled western region and will
then look at the north as we examine poten-
tial sources of instability and how to rebuild
the state in this pre-election year. We will
be keeping an eye on Burkina Faso as elec-
toral politics gain momentum in advance of
2015 elections and closely monitoring the
March general elections in Guinea-Bissau,
which were rescheduled after the 2012 coup
and may prove problematic. Guinea itself
will also hold presidential elections in 2015;
we will look at the dangers of failing to deal
of our series on local conicts in Congo,
focusing this year on the Kivus.
In West Africa, potentially dangerous and
divisive elections will occur in countries that
are vital for the regions peace and secu-
rity: Nigeria, Cte dIvoire, Burkina Faso,
Guinea-Bissau and Guinea. Nigeria will be a
main emphasis of our work, beginning with
a report on Boko Haram and continuing with
a consideration of politics, and likely political
violence, as Nigerians prepare for elections
in 2015. Cte dIvoire remains fragile despite
with the fallout there from the 2013 legisla-
tive elections. We begin 2014 with a report
on Mali, looking at how to take advantage
of the opportunities created by a popular
new president and a focused international
community. Having seen how ghters from
outside Mali helped destabilise it, we will
examine the spillover from southern Libya
into Niger and Chad.
Along with a case study on the foreign policy
of South Africa, we will look at how the
Southern African Development Community
has done as a shaper and observer of elec-
toral processes in Zimbabwe, Swaziland,
Madagascar and Malawi.
The Mali effort was handled from our Dakar
ofce, which also produced strong policy
reports on Guinea (A Way Out of the Election
Quagmire, February), Cte dIvoire and
Niger (our rst).
The program gave Sudan strong empha-
sis with two instalments in a report series
on Sudans Spreading Conict (in Febru-
ary and June). South Sudans sudden late-
year descent into civil conict added a new,
urgent dimension to the troubled region;
we had someone in place in Juba as events
unfolded, allowing us to issue an authorita-
tive statement in late December suggesting
some ways out of the worsening conict as
SPLA factions attacked each other in Juba,
South Sudans capital, and elsewhere in the
worlds newest state.
Somalias chronic instability, and its spill-
over, featured in our August report on the
Ogaden and a December consideration of
the Puntland elections (which occurred the
next month). Somalia also featured in more
topical writing during and after the Westgate
Mall attack in Nairobi, which sadly conrmed
the blowback warnings in our 2012 reports
on Kenyas military intervention in Somalia
and the radicalisation of Kenyan Somalis.
From our Nairobi hub we analysed Kenyas
2013 Elections in January, with a follow-up
report in May. The International Criminal
Courts indictment of the eventual winners,
now-President Uhuru Kenyatta and Vice
President William Ruto, greatly coloured
those elections and their aftermath. The
future promotion of international criminal
justice also preoccupied President Arbour
in her advocacy work at Octobers Global
Brieng in Brussels and her address to
Security Council members at Greentree,
NY, in November.
African issues continued to dominate the
Security Councils agenda. The Democratic
Republic of Congo was the topic of two
debates we held with Council members
(in March and April) and the innovative UN
intervention brigade in DRC was considered
in a policy letter from President Arbour to
Great Lakes Special Envoy Mary Robinson.
The Central African Republic was an intense
preoccupation from our 2 January alert on
the swift advance of Seleka forces, through
the post-coup Priorities of the Transition
(June) to Better Late Than Never (Decem-
ber), with regular eldwork throughout the
year. Private advocacy in New York and
Washington included brieng the White
House and holding numerous meetings at
the ambassadorial level and above, while
public advocacy featured timely blog posts
and articles as well as an open letter to the
Security Council. (See Advocacy and Com-
When we started thinking about
an EU response to the challenges
in the Gulf of Guinea we were
very much inspired by the ICG
report New Danger Zone, and
have engaged with your analysts
along the way, which has been
extremely useful.
Letter from EEAS West Africa Division chief
Sean Doyle to President Arbour
Facing page: People in Central African
Republic lie on the ground as they are
searched by French soldiers during a patrol
of villages in Bossangoa, north of the capital,
Bangui, 3 January 2014. French and African
troops have struggled to stop the violence
between Muslim and Christian groups.
REUTERS/Andreea Cmpeanu.
A South Sudan army soldier next to a machine gun mounted on a truck in Malakal, 497km north east of the capital, Juba, 30 December 2013, a few days after the town
was retaken from rebel ghters. REUTERS/James Aken. Right: An Igbo leader Chief Boniface addresses a crowd at the scene of explosions at a bus park in Sabon Gari in
Kano, Nigeria, 19 March 2013, in an area where Islamist sect Boko Haram is waging an insurgency against the government. REUTERS/Stringer.
ICGs analysis and advocacy
efforts about what is occurring in
conict zones around the world
are simply unrivaled.
Stephen Hadley, former U.S. National
Security Advisor
We will focus closely on the dynamic be-
tween China and Japan in the East China
Sea and examine how Beijing and its ASEAN
neighbours in the South China Sea are trying
to move beyond maritime disputes to jointly
developing maritime resources. The Seoul
ofce will examine critical factors for political
stability on the Peninsula, including the risk
of intelligence failure or politicisation of
intelligence gathering and analysis in South
Korea, and the prospects for change in
North Korea.
the Pheu Thai Party and the Red Shirt
movement, and on the other opponents of
controversial former Prime Minister Thaksin
Shinawatra, primarily in the traditional estab-
lishment. We will also continue to investigate
the decade-old insurgency in the Malay-
Muslim-majority southernmost provinces.
The deeply awed election process of
January 2014 in Bangladesh will lead to
an examination of how better to strength-
en democracy. We will also focus on new
and apparently well-organised but poorly
We will continue to identify risks to resolu-
tion of ethnic conicts in Myanmar as the
parties attempt to move beyond armed
conict for the rst time in 60 years and will
investigate the changing role of Myanmars
powerful military in the politics and economy
of the country. We will also focus on violence
against the minority Rohingya community in
Rakhine State as well as other Myanmar
Muslims, and the rise of radicalised Bud-
dhist nationalism. In Thailand we will focus
on the national-level conict that has been
building since 2006 between, on one hand,
Increased nationalist posturing in China and
Japan put North East Asia on edge, anti-
Muslim violence and nationalism gained
traction in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, and
Afghanistan entered yet another critical
phase a year before the international draw-
down. Crisis Group honoured Myanmars
President Thein Sein at our annual gala
for setting the country on a path towards
greater openness, while continuing to report
on its internal conicts (June) and the chal-
lenges of political transition (Not a Rubber
Stamp: Myanmars Legislature in a Time of
Transition, December). An important work on
anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar, The Dark
Side of Transition, came out in October.
Crisis Group produced a nal paper on Timor-
Leste but continued to report on Indonesia
through May, releasing Stability at What
Cost? and Tensions over Acehs Flag. In
another situation of reduced conict, we
investigated the intricate process of demo-
bilisation in the Philippines (Dismantling
Rebel Groups, June).
Deepening China-Japan tensions were a
source of great concern throughout the
year. Our East China Sea report (Dangerous
Waters, April) immediately became a
standard reference. The Beijing and Seoul
ofces collaborated on Fire on the City Gate:
Why China Keeps North Korea Close in
December, while the North East Asia project
maintained a steady output of writing and
advocacy on North Korean developments.
The easing of conict in Nepal led to the
closing of our ofce there. We continued our
work in Thailand, where the latent national-
level political conict intensied and a dia-
logue process between the government and
Malay-Muslim insurgents in the south found-
ered amid unabated violence.
Persistent insecurity and violence intensi-
ed in Afghanistan, with the Taliban spurn-
ing Kabul and the international communitys
efforts to reach a negotiated settlement. Our
work included Afghanistans Parties in Tran-
sition (June). The fate of women in the near
future was the preoccupation of Women and
Conict in Afghanistan (October).
Pakistan remained relatively stable in 2013.
Our focus was on institutions (eg, legal sys-
tems, in Januarys Countering Militancy in
PATA, and in a paper on Pakistans parlia -
ment in September). We also considered the
growing controversy over drones (May).
Sri Lanka under the Rajapaksa family contin-
ued to make feints at reform while solidify-
ing its increasingly authoritarian regime. We
chronicled the results, including a violent
campaign by nationalist Buddhist groups
against the Muslim minority, and pointed the
way toward sounder policies in Sri Lankas
Authoritarian Turn (February) and Sri Lankas
Potemkin Peace (November).
A truck transports a military container in the German army camp in Kunduz, Afghanistan, 2 September 2013.
Afghan security forces will move in after the German troops leave. REUTERS/Sabine Siebold.
analysed Islamist groups such as Hefajat-
e-Islam. With presidential elections due and
the exit of international forces in Afghani-
stan, we will examine the strategies of the
insurgency in the lead-up to and after inter-
national withdrawal. We will also assess the
ability of the Afghan security forces, particu-
larly the national police and local police, to
hold insurgents at bay. In Pakistan, we begin
by investigating the drivers of militancy in the
four provincial capitals and identify mecha-
nisms for restoring order. We will also assess
counter-terrorism strategies, the impact of
violent conict on women a primary target
of Islamist radicals and the capacity of the
education system to reduce extremist inu-
ence. Because Pakistan will play a crucial
role in shaping post-transition Afghanistan,
we will examine Islamabads Afghan poli-
cies. An increasingly violent militant Bud-
dhist campaign, apparently tacitly backed
by the government, against Sri Lankas
Muslims could open a dangerous new line of
communal conict. We will examine this and
how Sri Lankas ethnic conict continues
around the world through immigration and
asylum issues, terrorism, war-crimes cases,
and the far-ung initiatives of the Tamil dias-
pora and the government itself.
Top: A man stands in front of a mosque as it burns in Meiktila, Myanmar, 21 March 2013. REUTERS/Soe Zeya. Left: Tun Afghan villagers take part in the burial of a
senior female police ofcer in Helmand province, 16 September 2013. REUTERS/Abdul Malik. Right: Chinese naval soldiers stand guard on Chinas rst aircraft carrier
as it travels towards a military base (undated). REUTERS/Stringer.
ICG reports are must-reads.
They provide reliable expertise,
sharp observations and a valuable
overview. This is why we need ICG
as a source of information and
orientation and why we like to
publish articles by its experts.
Sylke Tempel, Editor, Internationale Politik,
German Council on Foreign Relations, Berlin
We begin the year with our fourth report in
a series on North Caucasus and a consider-
ation of tourist development in the region
on the occasion of the Sochi Olympics.
In the South Caucasus we will focus on
the future of the OSCEs Minsk Process
the diplomatic framework, since 1995, for
resolving confrontation between Armenia
and Azerbaijan.
The NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan will
alter the strategic picture in Central Asia. We
will anticipate likely scenarios for Russian
for Cyprus and consider how a two-state
alternative might be implemented. Turkey
entered the new year in what looked set to
be a long-lasting domestic political storm,
but the main threats of possible conict will
remain the unnished business from last
year: the still inconclusive peace process
with Turkeys insurgent PKK and a stumbling
reform process for Turkish Kurds, as well as
worries about overspill from Syrias civil war
across the porous southern Turkish border
and the struggle to cope with some one mil-
lion Syrian refugees.
and Chinese policy and the effects for Cen-
tral Asian countries of an altered geopolitical
dispensation. Rising Islamism will inform our
research on radical women in Dagestan and
on how social services in Kyrgyzstan have
become part of a religious agenda.
Our nal report on Bosnia-Herzegovina will
focus on underlying political patterns and
long-term policy prescriptions.
We will also take a look at the long-term
failure of talks on a bi-communal federation
The year brought substantial progress on the
conict between Turkey and the PKK. This
has been one of the great in trac tables, and
we analysed both how it had nally moved
and how it might progress yet further in
Crying Wolf (October). Another great intrac-
table, Cyprus, shifted far less, although we
found some hope for change, expressed
in blog posts and articles, after natural gas
nds in the islands waters. The Istanbul
ofce also focused on the problems of Syrian
war refugees, both in a report (in April) and
in public and private advocacy. Turkeys own
internal struggles mid-year led to both the
most popular blog writing in Crisis Groups
history and public advocacy on The Charlie
Rose Show, among other major outlets.
A reorganisation led, after nearly two dec-
ades, to the closure of the Balkans project
at the end of a year that began with major
reports on northern Kosovo and on Bosnias
Dangerous Tango: Islam and Nationalism
(both February). At last, violent conict in the
region has decisively, and we hope perma-
nently, ebbed.
This streamlining also led to Central Asia
coming under the Europe program mid-year.
Chinas Central Asia Problem (February) was
jointly produced by the Beijing and Bishkek
ofces, while the latter undertook a report on
Kazakhstan (October) and the need for plan-
ning for a post-Nazarbayev era.
We sounded a warning on Armenia/Azerbai-
jan in September and brought out the third in
our series of reports on the North Caucasus
(this time on governance, elections and the
rule of law). Public advocacy included a new
Eurasia blog and analysts articles in the
New York Times and elsewhere. The Europe
program tightened its relationship with Euro-
pean Union advocacy in a year when the
External Action Service seemed to be com-
ing into its own with successes on Kosovo
and Iran, and a heightened prole during
Egypts mid-year crisis. President Arbour
also stressed European ties, notably in visits
to Paris, Berlin and Moscow.
Facing page: Women preparing for a demonstration in Istanbul, spring 2013. CRISIS GROUP/Hugh Pope; Police
ofcers block students as they carry a cut-out depicting a YouTube page during protests at the University of
Pristina, Kosovo, 3 February 2014. REUTERS/Hazir Reka. This page: In the village (above) of Khadzhalmakhi,
Dagestan, government ofcials have encouraged militias to suppress Sala Islamist activity as part of a return
to hardline tactics. Some twenty Sala families have ed the village. Seven individuals were reported killed.
In another village, the house (below left) of the family of a killed insurgent was blown up by ofcials. Family
members (below right) waited outside a cordon as ofcials did their work. CRISIS GROUP/Varvara Pakhomenko.
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With a new regional ofce in Mexico City,
we will be better positioned to examine
how different law enforcement strategies
in Mexico have brought radically different
consequences in the cases of Ciudad Jurez
(potentially a success story) and Michoacn
(a potential failure). We will also review
police reform in Mexico, including options in
connection with police certication (vetting),
respect for human rights and accountability,
criminal investigations and linkages with
judicial reform, and the relationship between
policing and vigilantism.
A preference for political over military solu-
tions to a chronic conict led to signicant
progress towards peace in Colombia, while
accountability for an old political wound
remained elusive in Guatemala. In both
cases, we have gained inuence and impact
through regular contact with all parties. Our
inaugural project in Mexico focused rst on
violence related to organised crime and the
evolution of the governments approach to
the problem (March), then looked at vigilan-
tism as a mode of citizen response to law-
lessness (May). These reports laid the basis
for our future exploration of conicts involv-
ing the state and organised crime.
Crisis Groups Haiti project closed, after
eight years and 22 reports, with a renewed
call for a national consensus (February).
Work in Venezuela continued as the country
struggled to nd its footing after the death of
President Hugo Chvez. Our report in May
outlined the deep political divide, while pub-
lic advocacy continued with a Crisis Alert
(March) and articles aimed at showing the
way to bridge the considerable gap between
governing party and opposition.
The risks of a militarised response to social
protest as part of the complex interplay of
indigenous rights and exploitation of natural
resources was analysed in a report after
a massacre in a remote town in Guatemala
in February, while the epochal trial of former
Guatemalan President Efrain Ros Montt
was covered in a September report as well
as public commentary and diplomatic work,
including a visit by President Arbour in
From its base in Bogot, the program gave
an all-out push on Colombias peace pro-
cess with the FARC the best chance for
resolving a decades-long conict. President
Arbour helped launch the report Transi-
tional Justice and Colombias Peace Talks
in August with a speech at the Universidad
Externado de Colombia and met privately
with the main force behind the peace pro-
cess (President Juan Manuel Santos), the
main force against it (former President lvaro
Uribe), Peace Commissioner Sergio Jara-
millo and former President Csar Gaviria.
Left: The Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) lead negotiator Ivn
Mrquez reads a document at a news
conference in Havana, 28 August 2013.
REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa. Below: Crisis
Group Latin America and Caribbean Program
Director Javier Ciurlizza interviewed by
CNNs Carmen Aristegui. CNN EN ESPAOL.
Facing page: Mexican vigilantes stop their
convoy after hearing rumours of a possible
ambush in Tierra Caliente, 10 January 2014.
REUTERS/Alan Ortega.
We will continue our intense engagement in
the peace process in Colombia, including
with a report early in the year on developing
talks with the leftist ELN similar to those now
ongoing with the FARC. We will also explore
post-conict options for disarmament and
demobilisation of FARC and ELN, and how to
prevent Colombia from following the pattern
elsewhere of an increase in organised crime.
After presidential and local elections, we
will map out the new political landscape in
Venezuela as it faces high crime and a pos-
sible meltdown of its economy. The border
of Guatemala and Honduras is one of the
deadliest places in the world, and we will
investigate the triggers of conict and pro-
vide recommendations for urgent action to
alleviate the immense humanitarian conse-
Finally, we will intensify engagement with
regional actors the Inter-American Com-
mission on Human Rights of the OAS,
UNASUR, and others (eg, SICA) to discuss
policy options for cooperation in security
and justice among these increasingly impor-
tant political actors.
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Former Guatemalan dictator Efran Ros Montt during his trial in the Supreme Court of Justice in Guatemala City, 19 April 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Dan Lopez.
The biggest, and possibly least expected,
positive story in the region was Iran: the
election of President Rouhani (detailed in our
August report) and the subsequent overtures
to the U.S. A key question in this opening
was how to handle sanctions on Iran, which
was the subject of our inuential February
report Spider Web: The Making and Unmak-
ing of Iran Sanctions; the reports careful
guidance became even more valuable as
Iran and the major Western powers looked
for ways to ease their disagreements and
develop trust.
But the biggest, and unfortunately most
expected, negative story remained Syria,
where the civil war recorded another year of
bloodshed and destruction.
Our eighth report on Syria since the upris-
ing began was on Syrias Kurds: A Struggle
Within a Struggle, followed by reports on
spillover risks for Turkey (April, under Cri-
sis Groups Europe program) and Lebanon
(May). The landmark report Syrias Metas-
tasising Conicts came out in June. The
use of chemical weapons on 21 August
in a Damascus suburb seemed to (briey)
change the equation, with U.S. President
Barack Obama threatening military action;
the ensuing Russian/U.S. initiative to destroy
Syrias chemical weapons averted this
outcome. (Our statement came out amid
these events, on 2 September, and quickly
became the most-read document in Crisis
Groups history.) In agreeing to this initiative,
the Syrian regime sought to move from pari-
ah to negotiating partner, a transition that
the oppositions increasingly Islamist hue
appeared to facilitate. Talks among Syrians
and others took place in January 2014; our
report on the opposition (October) suggest-
ed how difcult those likely would be.
In Egypt, the process that began with the
January 2011 uprising experienced yet
another perilous detour with the removal of
President Mohammed Morsi by the military.
After Morsis fall in July we issued a state-
ment followed by a full report in August.
The story of the Arab worlds transitions is
being written elsewhere as well, whether
in Tunisia (Violence and the Sala Chal-
lenge appeared in February, and a report
on the countrys borders, subtitled Jihad-
ism and Contraband, in November), Libya
(Aprils Trial by Error, on the justice system),
or Yemen (where we took a close look at its
military, in April, and reported on Yemens
Southern Question in September).
Meanwhile, Iraq seemed to be heading into
a dangerous spiral of renewed sectarian
conict, as detailed in August in Make or
Break: Iraqs Sunnis and the State.
We will continue to press for major adjust-
ments in the peace process for Israel and
Palestine, arguing that it needs to include
more groups and address some of the less
tangible aspirations of both Israelis and
In Egypt, we will consider what is next for
the Muslim Brotherhood. The political
actors in Syria, and their foreign backers,
have become trapped in short-term, tacti-
cal thinking. We will attempt to take a longer
view mid-year, proposing a political horizon
that might help participants in the conict
nd routes out of the current stalemate.
We will also look at the effects (particularly
in Lebanon) of Hizbollahs involvement in
Syria, and at the consolidation of Syrian
Kurdish power under the PYD (Democratic
Union Party) and the implications for Syria
and its neighbours.
Increased violence in Iraq will shape our
approach to work on the evolving Shiite
political landscape and the results of parlia-
mentary elections. The P5+1 negotiations
with Iran over its nuclear program will be the
focus of policy briengs on how to over-
come the many challenges to a nal agree-
ment. In Yemen we will look particularly at
the North and the entrenched Huthi conict,
while also examining the state of the coun-
trys tful transition and the complex range
of its Islamist forces and movements.
Our work in Libya will focus on how to hold
the country together, whether through fed-
eralism or centralisation, and examine the
ambitions of radical Islamists in the east.
Islamism will also feature prominently in our
work on Tunisia, where we will look at the
identity crisis of the An-Nahda party.
Despite renewed energy from the U.S., seri-
ous obstacles remained on the road toward
an Israeli/Palestinian agreement. Our goal
has been to point to some of the more struc-
tural stumbling blocks, whether in our March
report (on Israels Arab Minority), Buying
Time: Money, Guns and Politics in the West
Bank (May) or Novembers Leap of Faith:
Israels National Religious and the Israeli-
Palestinian Conict, which stressed the need
to engage Israels national-religious com-
munity as part of a broader rethinking of the
peace process.
Facing page (top): Crisis Groups Senior Libya Analyst Claudia Gazzini in Sidra port talking to militias who have blocked 40 per cent of Libyas oil exports, 24 September
2013. CRISIS GROUP/Issandr El Amrani. Facing page (bottom): A soldier wears a picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on his chest at Al-Hamidieh market in
old Damascus, 8 September 2013. REUTERS/Khaled al-Hariri. Above: Residents search for survivors after what activists said were air strikes by forces loyal to Syrias
President Bashar al-Assad in the Maysar neighbourhood of Aleppo, 28 December 2013. The neighbourhood was hit by two air strikes, activists said. REUTERS/Jalal
Alhalabi. Below: Soldiers riding armoured personnel carriers arrive at Tahrir Square after clashes with pro-Morsi protesters in Cairo, 1 December 2013. Egyptian security
forces red tear gas to disperse protesters demonstrating against the army-backed government in Cairos Tahrir Square. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh.
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Group in which they had looked
at sanctions, evaluated those
sanctions ... [B]adly designed
sanctions might actually increase
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likelihood of war.
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Washington, DC, 4 June 2013
Advocacy case study : Central African Republic
Jan 9
Boziz and
Seleka rebels
begin peace
talks in Gabon
Jan 24
T.V.s op-ed,
published by
and Cooperation
March 25
Coup leader
April 6
to elect
an interim
May 31
CAR pros-
ecutor in-
dicts former
Boziz for
incitement to
June 17
African Union
agrees to
Sept 13
Jan 2
Crisis Group
warns of
Crisis Group
Interactive map
Military Forces
in CAR
Jan 11
signed; cease-
re initiated
T.V. = Thierry Vircoulon, Central Africa Project Director
T.L. = Thibaud Lesueur, Central Africa Analyst
August 9
UN Secre-
Ban Ki-moon
says CAR has
suffered a
total break-
down of law
and order
March 24
rebels seize
the capital,
April 13
June 11
Crisis Group
report Cen-
tral African
Priorities of
the Transition
Sept 24
T.V.s op-ed,
Out of the
Box to Save
the CAR,
published by
March 27
Crisis Group
blog: Failure
Has Many
Fathers: The
Coup in
Central African
The year was characterised by increased
integration of content with public and private
advocacy. This was achieved through
greater coordination across the organisa-
tion, technological improvements, and
better targeting (in terms of topic choice and
marketing). By any measure, our audiences
grew substantially. Website visits increased,
blog readership trebled, and viewership of
our YouTube channel increased by a third.
With some technical innovation at the end of
the year an interactive map CrisisWatch
readership trebled. In 2013 the CrisisWatch
database was viewed around 10,400 times
each month. The bulk of our audience growth
came via social-media platforms, which
increase the public that comes to our reports,
briengs, and other output. The number of
Facebook likes and of followers on Twitter
and Tumblr all increased by more than half in
2013. The number of targeted recipients of
our content exceeded 33,000 and more than
200,000 subscribers received a customised
selection of documents based on their
choices. The main website received over 1.8
million visits and 5.3 million page views.
As always, the foundation of all our work
was the full-length reports that are Crisis
Groups signature product. Sixty-three
reports and briengs were published in the
year, and 57 translations in 16 languages.
New research lines were opened and others
closed. We issued our rst reports on Niger
(September) and Burkina Faso (July) part
of our increasingly ourishing work on the
Sahel and our rst two on Mexico (March
and May). The North Caucasus project con-
tinued to settle in with a third introductory
report (September) demonstrating the value
of truly expert eld-based research. We also
bade goodbye to our reporting on Haiti and
Both sides to the Iran nuclear talks say our
sanctions report (February), a useful case
study of the strengths and limitations of
sanctions, provided them with analysis and
information that helped make it possible
to move forward. Our work on parliaments
in Pakistan (September) and Myanmar
(December) paid attention to an often over-
looked pillar of government, and we contin-
ued to build up our work on organised crime
through our Mexico reporting.
Our paper looking at the issue of transitional
justice within the context of peace talks be-
tween the government and FARC in Colom-
bia illuminated the challenges in ensuring
both that impunity does not prevail and that
the pursuit of justice does not derail very
real prospects for peace. Papers on the Ros
Montt trial in Guatemala (September) and on
Libyas fragile justice sector (April) looked at
similar issues.
This was a difcult year in Myanmars transi-
tion, most clearly evidenced by Buddhist-
on-Muslim violence. We have tracked this,
together with the challenges of bedding
down democracy and ensuring a stable, last-
ing ceasere-leading-to-peace-agreement.
Much the same can be said of our coverage
of Turkeys sputtering peace process with
the PKK; in our October report and associat-
ed commentary, we offered direct prescrip-
tions to Ankara on how to end that conict.
A local focus also characterised our work
on subnational conict dynamics in Sudan,
Yemen, Guatemala, Somalia, Ethiopia, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and Pakistan.
Our work on Syria continued to set the bar.
Whether looking at the regional spillover
in Turkey and Lebanon, Syrias Kurds, the
mutating dynamics of the ghting, the state
of the opposition, the perils of Western
intervention, the spreading sectarianism in
the region, or the urgent need to improve
humanitarian access, we have covered this
tragedy in meticulous detail, providing clarity
when little exists.
Oct 16
Louise Arbour
CAR with
French FM
Fabius, Paris
Dec 1
T.L. and T.V.s
op-ed, Africas
Center, pub-
lished by New
York Times
Dec 9
Vice President
Mark Schneider
and T.V. meet
with White
House ofcials
to discuss CAR
Nov 20
T.V.s op-ed,
Central Afri-
can Republic
falling into
pub lished by
Al Jazeera
Dec 5
UNSC passes
French mili-
tary interven-
tion in CAR
Nov 1
UN ofcial
warns of
Dec 19
U.S. Ambassador
to the UN,
Samantha Power,
visits CAR
Oct 24
T.L. advo-
cacy in Paris
November 128 December 46
Thierry Vircoulon advocacy in Paris Thierry Vircoulon advocacy UN, New York
Dec 9
Crisis Group blog:
A Critical Week
Ahead in Bangui
Nov 29
T.V. advo-
cacy in
Nov 15
Crisis Group
issues Open
Letter to the
UN Security
Council on the
Central African
Dec 2
Crisis Group
brieng Central
African Repub-
lic: Better Late
than Never
Dec 17
before U.S.
Dec 19
Crisis Group
blog: Central
African Repub-
lic: The Interna-
tional Options
for 2014
Crisis Group reporting was also marked
by its timeliness. Our last Sri Lanka report
appeared on the eve of the Commonwealth
meeting in Colombo. Our report on the
implications of Hassan Rouhanis election
as Irans president came in the immediate
aftermath of his victory. Our Egypt report
came in the wake of the July mayhem, and
reports on Myanmars confessionally driven
violence, China and Japans increasingly
dangerous East China Sea spat or the need
for intervention in the Central African Repub-
lic were all published at the moment when
policymakers were facing difcult choices.
Crisis Group staff authored a remarkable
range of articles and essays over the course
of the year, beginning in Foreign Policy with
the second annual Next Years Wars article
by President Arbour (shared by three times
the number of readers as the previous years
instalment). Staffers distinguished them-
selves in every genre, from Nathan Thralls
article in the New York Review of Books on
the Middle East peace process to Ekaterina
Sokirianskaias travelogue on the revival of
jihad in Dagestan, from a plangent reection
Peter Harling co-authored on Syrias tragedy
to Daniel Pinkstons observations on the role
of sport in Korean peninsular diplomacy.
We stayed alert to unexpected synergies:
some late-night notes from Cedric Barnes,
written immediately after the Westgate Mall
attack in Nairobi and intended as the basis
for a blog post, turned into an op-ed pub-
lished in The New York Times, Le Monde
and elsewhere and helped draw renewed
attention (as did a concerted social-media
push) to our February 2012 report on the
implications of Kenyas military intervention
in Somalia.
President Arbour made especially notewor-
thy contributions to public debate on forms
of intervention (whether the responsibility
to protect, international criminal justice
or efforts to strengthen the rule of law),
on global drug policy and on the state of
womens rights. She also did so in a keynote
speech at the Global Brieng in October.
Social media made it possible to improve
timeliness without sacricing quality, in that
they provide a means to publish instantly to
a highly inuential policymaking audience.
This was immensely valuable in the publica-
tion of Crisis Group statements, open let-
ters and Crisis Alerts. We published a range
of these in 2013: on South Sudan (twice),
Syria (twice), Iran, Egypt (twice), Iraq, Mali,
Guinea, Venezuela, North Korea, the Central
African Republic (twice) and marking the
death of Nelson Mandela. We also published
Crisis Group Vice President Mark Schneider
testifying on Central African Republic before
the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
17 December 2013. Photo: Jay Mallin.
open letters to the UN Secretary-General
and to the Security Council timely interven-
tions that complemented ongoing advocacy
at the UN, particularly on African issues,
Syria and Iran.
Such timeliness enabled advocacy staff-
ers in Washington, New York and Brussels
to enhance their own impact. The timeline
below uses the Central African Republic as
an example of the integration of eld report-
ing, communications and advocacy.
Total unrestricted income for annual operations for
the nancial year ending 30 June 2013 was $18.3
million, of which 84% was core contributions. Total
expenditure for the nancial year ending 30 June 2013
was $21.9 million. Contributed services comprising
various professional services are reected in the
unrestricted core contributions and administrative
expenditure totals. The value of these contributions
for the year ending 30 June 2013 was $1.25 million.
Without these contributions the expenditure ratios
would be as follows: Development: 7%; Administration:
10%; Advocacy: 23%; Operations (Programs): 60%.
Income and Expenditure in 2013
z Governments 47%
z Individual and Corporate 23%
z Institutional Foundations 30%
z Operations 56%
z Advocacy 22%
z Administration 15%
z Development 7%
2013 was a challenging year for fundrais-
ing at Crisis Group. We experienced some
unanticipated cuts in government funding,
with a number of our longtime donor govern-
ments implementing budget reductions in a
general climate of scal austerity. Govern-
ments now represent 47% of our income,
down from 50% a year ago, while founda-
tions have risen to 30% and private sources
(individuals and corporations) stand at 23%.
On a more positive note, we are fortunate
that unrestricted, core funding continues to
form the mainstay of our support (84% of
our revenue).
Anticipating continued uncertainty in the
government sector, our Board of Directors
and senior staff reached the difcult deci-
sion to reduce Crisis Groups budget in 2013
to a more sustainable annual income level
of $18 19 million. The guiding principle
behind these changes was to reafrm our
core mandate of preventing and resolving
deadly conict, and to phase out our opera-
tions in post-conict situations where, in
our assessment, the risk of deadly violence
breaking out had signicantly abated. While
these decisions were not taken easily, we
felt it was the best way to ensure, and ulti-
mately strengthen, our impact in the areas
where Crisis Group will be most needed in
the future.
We continue to engage closely with our gov-
ernment donors through frequent dialogue
in their capitals, in the eld and in regional
and international organisations. We greatly
value our close relationship with private sec-
tor supporters through our thriving Council
program, and as we look to strengthen our
private fundraising to stabilise our annual
income and help meet Crisis Groups future
needs, we have launched a special initiative
to increase the membership of our Presi-
dents Council. We are also deeply grateful
to the institutional foundations with whom
we enjoy fruitful partnerships, as illustrated
in our recent collaboration with Adessium
Foundation highlighted on the next page.
The Presidents Challenge
In 2013 we launched our Presidents Challenge a vital campaign to double our
Presidents Council membership and raise $1 million in additional annual income to
sustain our work across the globe. Our Presidents Council members are individuals
and corporations contributing a minimum of $100,000 per annum to fund our core
work. This distinguished group is at the heart of our pursuit of peace, and we invite
you to join us in taking forward our ambitious mission to prevent, mitigate and
resolve deadly conict.
All new memberships to the Presidents Council will be matched through generous
funding provided by Crisis Group Board member Frank Giustra and an anonymous
donor, thereby doubling the impact of your gift.
I am supporting this campaign because of my deeply held belief that
creating a secure environment is a prerequisite for all forms of development
to take place from human rights, education and health care to economic
progress. In joining the Presidents Council you can have a profound impact
on the lives and livelihoods of future generations.
Frank Giustra
For more information on the Presidents Challenge,
please contact Josie Emslie on email@example.com
In 2013, Adessium Foundation provided
generous funding for Crisis Group to review
its M & E (Monitoring & Evaluation) methodol-
ogy and practice, coinciding with our desire
to better understand our impact and, with
our 20th anniversary approaching, deter-
mine whether our methodology was still best
suited for todays conicts. The process
began with an assessment by an outside
M & E expert, based on interviews with staff
members, donors and other civil society
groups working on policy advocacy. The
expert presented her initial ndings in online
seminars open to all staff. Almost two thirds
of staff participated as interviewees, in
seminars or providing input separately.
Over the summer, a working group with
representatives from across Crisis Group
reviewed the experts research and ideas
from staff. It concluded that integrating
M & E more systematically into our work
would help us better prioritise our time and
Adessium Foundation Supports Initiative
to Strengthen M & E at Crisis Group
From Crisis Groups
Award Dinner, April
2013 (Photos: Fifth
Avenue Digital) and
Global Brieng,
October 2013 (Photos:
Joke Druyts).
From upper left to
right: Trustee Lalit
Mansingh; H.M.
Queen Noor of Jordan;
Italian Foreign Minister
Emma Bonino; Former
Brazilian President
Luiz Incio Lula da
Silva; Crisis Group
staff EJ Hogendoorn
and Cedric Barnes;
Muniba Khan; BBC
World News America
Anchor Katty Kay;
Trustee Wu Jianmin;
Lyse Doucet, Co-Chair
Tom Pickering,
Trustees Ko Annan
and George Soros;
Trustee Frank Giustra
with guest and Shiv
Khemka; Trustee Mo
Ibrahim with Crisis
Group President
Louise Arbour.
resources, document best practices and
rene activities accordingly. A report sum-
marising the groups ndings was distrib-
uted to all staff for comment before being
Two pilot projects have now been launched
that will test a new M & E methodology for
our work in Mali and Thailand through 2014.
If successful, they will inform organisation-
wide changes to our work, to ensure the
right balance of advocacy and analysis,
reports and other commentary, all with a
keen view to increasing impact on the con-
ict situations we cover. Crisis Group is
also implementing other recommendations
from the review such as formalising regular
communication between different parts of
the organisation, revamping our training for
staff, and revising our workplans and core
reports so they dene goals for the conicts
on which we work and then review our suc-
cess in meeting them.
Global Brieng
and EU Watch List
In October, our signature annual event,
the Global Brieng, began with a key-
note speech, Doctrines Derailed? by
President Arbour and featured an open-
ing panel on the state of conict with
Ko Annan, George Soros and Thomas
Pickering, moderated by Lyse Doucet.
Later that month, as part of our EU fund-
ing agreement, we held a special brief-
ing with senior EU ofcials and began
production of a twice-yearly Watch List
identifying up to ten countries particu-
larly vulnerable to imminent conict.
President Arbour launched the rst list in
Brussels on 12 December.
Crisis Group is deeply grateful to Adessium
Foundation for their support of this signif-
icant initiative, which has successfully
engaged all of the staff in a meaningful dia-
logue about M & E and will ultimately make
us a stronger organisation, says Chief
Development Ofcer Emma Cherniavsky.
US$100,000 or more
US$50,000 or more
Herman De Bode
George Soros
US$25,000 or more
Atlantic Investment
Canaccord Financial Inc.
COMO HOTELS/Parrot Cay
Long Island Community
Foundation Stanley &
Marion Bergman Family
Charitable Fund
US$10,000 or more
Chardan Capital Markets
Charles & Lael Chester
DLA Piper LLC
Embley Park Foundation
Julius & Belma Gaudio
Carla Hills
Mo Ibrahim
Pierre Keller
Jeannette and H. Peter
Kriendler Charitable Trust
Thomas R. Pickering
Ana Luisa Ponti & Geoffrey
R. Hoguet
Scomi Group Bhd
Nina K. Solarz
Jen Staehelin
Ron & Janet Stern
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.
US$5,000 or more
Samuel R. Berger & Susan
Mark Bergman & Susan Gibson
Wesley K. Clark
Linda Evanswood
Export Development Canada
Rita E. Hauser
Catharine Hawkins Foundation
Sai S. Htun
Shiv Vikram Khemka
Nii Owuraka Koney
Lostand Foundation
Enzo Viscusi
Yakazi Corporation
Lionel Zinsou
US$1,000 or more
aLanguage Bank
Morton Abramowitz
Auerbach Grayson
The Baobab Fund
Richard Benson-Armer
Andrew Black
Andrew Brimmer
Combined Federal Campaign
The Community Foundation for
the National Capital Region
Ramsay & Trisha Derry
Jodie & John Eastman
Jonathan Fanton
Jess & Marcia Fardella
Yoichi Funabashi
Joseph & Susan Gatto
Christina Hajdu
Eleanor Holtzman
PJ Juvekar
Sudhir Kamath
Louis Klein
Amy and Max Lehman & New
Prospect Foundation
David Lyman
Norine MacDonald
Harriet Mouchly-Weiss
Michael P. Murphy
David C. Nagel
Peter Nathanial
Ayo Obe
Michael Patsalos-Fox
Nicholas & Carol Paumgarten
David L. Phillips
Helen Raffel
Allan Rock
Alexander J. Roepers
Richard & Michele Ruble
Edelie See
David Simkins
Nancy Soderberg
Melissa & Robert Soros
Joseph & Anya Stiglitz
Leeanne Su
Stuart Sundlun
John K. Tysseland
Vivian and Paul Olum
Lisa Woodward
Ardeshir Zahedi
Government and Foundation Donors
Individual and Corporate Donors and Supporters
Gifts or support of
US$1,000 or more
received between
1 February 2013 and
31 January 2014.
Listings for governments and foundations reect contributions received between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013.
Adessium Foundation
Carnegie Corporation of New York
The Charitable Foundation
The Elders
The Henry Luce Foundation
Humanity United
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Oak Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Open Society Initiative for West Africa
Ploughshares Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
The Stanley Foundation
Tinker Foundation
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
VIVA Trust
Australia (Agency for International Development)
Austria (Austrian Development Agency)
Belgium (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Canada (Canadian International Development
Agency; International Development Research
Denmark (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Deutsche Gesellschaft fr Internationale
Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
Finland (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Germany (Federal Foreign Ofce)
Ireland (Irish Aid)
Liechtenstein (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Luxembourg (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
The Netherlands (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
New Zealand (Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade)
Norway (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Sweden (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Switzerland (Federal Department of Foreign Affairs)
Turkey (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
United Kingdom (Department for International
United States (U.S. Agency for International
Anonymous Frank Giustra Paul Reynolds
Stephen & Jennifer Dattels
Frank Holmes
Investec Asset Management
McKinsey & Company
Pierre Mirabaud
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Statoil (U.K.) Ltd.
White & Case LLP
Leadership Circle Individual supporters contributing US$250,000 or more annually:
Presidents Council Corporate and individual supporters contributing US$100,000 or more annually:
International Private donors and supporters contributing between US$25,000 and US$99,999 annually:
Advisory Council
Other Individual
and Corporate
Anglo American PLC
APCO Worldwide Inc.
Atlas Copco AB
BG Group PLC
Equinox Partners, L.P.
FTI Consulting
Lockwood Financial Ltd.
MasterCard Worldwide
PTT Public Company Limited
Silk Road Finance
Yap Merkezi Construction and
Industry Inc
Ryan Beedie
David Brown & Erika Franke
Neil & Sandra DeFeo Family
Neemat Frem
Seth & Jane Ginns
Geoffrey Hsu
George Kellner
Faisel & Muniba Khan
Elliott Kulick
David Levy
Leslie Lishon
Kerry Propper
Michael L. Riordan
Horst Sporer
VIVA Trust
Stylios S. Zavvos
Revenues and other support ($) Year ended 30 June 2013 30 June 2012
Contributions 16,010,710 20,265,810
Interest income 413,107 159,374
Miscellaneous income 2,777 11,586
Total 16,426,594 20,436,770
Expenses ($)
Africa Program
Central Africa 651,834 791,119
Southern Africa 478,989 327,507
West Africa 832,584 775,935
Horn of Africa 891,260 828,843
Total 2,854,667 2,723,404
Asia Program
Pakistan/Afghanistan 1,221,057 1,230,213
South East Asia 1,140,380 1,071,831
Central Asia 423,183 486,470
North East Asia 797,393 813,264
Sri Lanka 169,594 305,916
Nepal 287,139 340,452
Total 4,038,746 4,248,146
Europe Program
South Caucasus 474,434 451,659
North Caucasus 417,703 284,853
Balkans 636,393 531,545
Turkey/Cyprus 258,963 260,790
Total 1,787,493 1,528,847
Middle East Program
Iraq, Iran and the Gulf 652,782 466,299
North Africa 592,555 698,808
Egypt, Syria and Lebanon 562,544 722,747
Israel/Palestine 747,898 803,586
Total 2,555,779 2,691,440
Latin America Program
Andes 428,208 509,312
Guatemala 345,288 319,449
Mexico 152,689
Haiti 142,969 271,616
Total 1,069,154 1,100,377
Total program expenses 12,305,839 12,292,214
Advocacy 4,776,807 5,192,165
Fundraising 1,480,352 1,267,560
Administration 3,337,732 5,077,011
Total administration expenses 4,818,084 6,344,571
Total expenses 21,900,730 23,828,950
Change in net assets before other items (5,474,136) (3,392,180)
Other items
Net unrealised/realised gain/(loss) on investments 1,355,803 (572,487)
Net unrealised/realised gain/(loss) on exchange (69,632) (1,449,637)
Change in net assets (4,187,965) (5,414,304)
Net assets at beginning of the year, as restated 44,330,036 49,744,340
Net assets at end of year 40,142,071 44,330,036
Net assets comprise
Unrestricted net assets 6,166,865 5,083,944
Temporarily restricted net assets 9,875,884 12,166,770
Permanently restricted net assets 100,000 100,000
Securing the Future Fund 23,999,322 26,979,322
Total 40,142,071 44,330,036
Contributions and grants for
both program and multi-year
funding agreements are
recorded in full as revenue
is received from the donor of
the commitment. The amount
of income from such agree-
ments which was available
for use in the year ending 30
June 2013 was $14,035,887
(2012: $16,542,849).
ments are availbale on
request, and accessible on
Crisis Groups website www.
Special Thanks Crisis Group is pleased to thank the following for making a variety of
in-kind and other special contributions in 2013:
Belgian Ministry for Foreign
Emma Bonino
Wesley K. Clark
Laura Dauphinee
Neil DeFeo
Lyse Doucet
Frank Giustra
Jodie & John Eastman
Laurent Fabius
Katty Kay
Walter Kielholz
Sherri Magee
Mark Malloch-Brown
Brad Miller
Pierre Mirabaud
Ban Ki-moon
Michael Murphy
Carol Off
Thomas R. Pickering
Annalu Ponti & Geoffrey
Kerry Propper
Paul Reynolds & Corina
George & Tamiko Soros
The Stanley Foundation
Jen Staehelin
Larry Summers
Anthony von Mandl
We warmly thank the consultants and former staff members who worked for Crisis Group
(along with others who cannot be named) in 2013. Former Staff : Kunle Amuwo, David
Andersson, Claire Beaugrand, Alina Belskaia, Christophe Berghmans, Davit Chochia, Tanya
Cooper, Alain Dltroz, Srdjan Djeric, Yasser El-Shimy, Sabine Freizer, Suheir Jameel Asad
Freitekh, Jim Della-Giacoma, Danielle Gimblett, Abdullahi Boru Halakhe, Fabienne Hara, Ann
Hollingsworth, Susana Hurtado Del Casar, Sidney Jones, Bernardo Jurema, Megan Kenna,
Gabriela Keseberg Dvalos, Iskra Kirova, Stephanie Kleine-Ahlbrandt, Marc-Andr Lagrange,
Florence Lambert, Igor Larine, Srecko Latal, Bryony Lau, William Lawrence, Trevor Maisiri,
Pankaj Malla, Cillian Nolan, Kim Patzwald, Ashish Pradhan, Marko Prelec, Fabio Pompetti,
Naim Rashiti, Eva Ratihandayani, Ahmed Reza, Lawrence Scott Sheets, Angela Seay, Aura
Stanciu, Andrew Stroeh lein, Achmad Sukarsono, Medea Turashvili, Gilles Yabi, Yasin Yaqubie,
Elisha Yoon and Zachary Walko. Consultants : Aminu Abubakar, Abbas al-Mamouri, Raed
al-Hamad al-Rawi, Zhulduz Baizakova, Rachel Bending, Bhoj Raj Bhat, Davit Chochia,
Johannes Claes, Casie Copeland, Julie David de Lossy, Claire Elder, Dan Evans, Sabine Freizer,
Raed Hamid Ghadhaeyan, Ioan Grillo, Phil Gunson, Sonia Herrero, Richard Horsey, Patrick
Johnson, Ismail Khan, Brian Klaas, Dominik Kohlhagen, Emilio Manfredi, Michelle Osborn, Yazer
Othman, Naim Rashiti, Rewati Sapkota, Gyanu Sharma, Claire Verville, Ariana Villagrn, Michael
Walls, Chris Whitehouse, Heston Williams, Katherine Wright, Sonja Wolf and Marisa Xhafa.
Crisis Group warmly thanks all the interns
who worked with us in 2013: Abdullahi
Abdille, Farina Ahuser, Matteo Arisci, Alex
Azarov, Inken Baader, Tessa Bakx, Silas
Bartels, Philip Bato, Rosalie Berthier, Ryan
Boone, Lisa Bostrm, Ian Carpenter,
Elizabeth Cochrane, Carlos Corts Daz, Lina
Marcela Cuartas, Dan-Vieira Da Costa,
Fodeba Daboh, Max de Haldevang, Beatriz
de Mesas Lpez, Shruti Dhanda, Jakub
Dianiska, Brigette Dumais, Aurlie Durand,
Claire Elder, Tudor Fabian, Max Gartner,
Brian Gleason, Samm Grifn, Ruth Gross-
man, Sabine Hae-Ran van Ameijden, Amdy
Helali, Laszlo Herwitz, Zurie Jaln, Alban
Janvier, Markus Klie, Susannah Klopf, Kelsey
Kupferer, Humfrey Legge, Joseph Lenox,
Carmel Lev, Daire MacFadden, Thijs Maes,
Zhouchen Mao, Christina Melnik, Tobias
Metzger, Shabnam Moallem, Jolle Moeckli,
Clemence Moreaux, Andrew Morrow, Zo
Muletier, Hannah Murray, Kush Nathwani,
Primrose Ncube, Ivan Neche purenko,
Thomas Nelson, Katherine Noack, Khalida
Nurmetova, Hamzeh Obeid, Eunjin Park,
Teona Parsons, Janessa Price, Matteo
Quattrochi, Ulrike Richter, Matthew Rohde,
Vincent Rouget, Delcio Tony Andre Salu,
Alexandra Schmitt, Melanie Shumate, Adam
Siegel, Yara Slim, Yves-Laurent Sondji
Mulanza Kating, Joge Sotto, Ayind Ismala
Soul-Kohndou, Ivn Surez lvarez,
Amanda Trepel, Diane Uwamugabe,
Antoinette van Haute, Adriana Villamarn,
Yo Wakita, Maeve Whelan-Wuest, John Clint
Work and Minmin Zhang.
Crisis Group gratefully thanks our Senior Advisers, former members of the Board of Trustees
who maintain an association with Crisis Group and whose advice and support are called on
from time to time (to the extent consistent with any other ofce they may be holding at the time):
Martti Ahtisaari
Chairman Emeritus
George Mitchell
Chairman Emeritus
Gareth Evans
President Emeritus
Kenneth Adelman
Adnan Abu-Odeh
HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal
Hushang Ansary
scar Arias
Ersin Arog lu
Richard Armitage
Diego Arria
Zainab Bangura
Shlomo Ben-Ami
Christoph Bertram
Alan Blinken
Lakhdar Brahimi
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Kim Campbell
Jorge Castaeda
Naresh Chandra
Eugene Chien
Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Victor Chu
Mong Joon Chung
Pat Cox
Gianfranco DellAlba
Jacques Delors
Alain Destexhe
Mou-Shih Ding
Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Gernot Erler
Marika Fahln
Stanley Fischer
Malcolm Fraser
Carla Hills
Swanee Hunt
James V. Kimsey
Aleksander Kwasniewski
Todung Mulya Lubis
Allan J. MacEachen
Graa Machel
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Assistant Football Coach
- Recruiter
- Location
- Pennsylvania (US)
- Posted
- 04 Jan 2019
- End of advertisement period
- 04 Mar 2019
- Ref
- 24-30711
- Academic Discipline
- Life sciences, Sport Science
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
The University of Pennsylvania, the largest private employer in Philadelphia, is a world-renowned leader in education, research, and innovation. This historic, Ivy League school consistently ranks among the top 10 universities in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. Penn has 12 highly-regarded schools that provide opportunities for undergraduate, graduate and continuing education, all influenced by Penn's distinctive interdisciplinary approach to scholarship and learning.
Penn offers a unique working environment within the city of Philadelphia. The University is situated on a beautiful urban campus, with easy access to a range of educational, cultural, and recreational activities. With its historical significance and landmarks, lively cultural offerings, and wide variety of atmospheres, Philadelphia is the perfect place to call home for work and play.
The University offers a competitive benefits package that includes excellent healthcare and tuition benefits for employees and their families, generous retirement benefits, a wide variety of professional development opportunities, supportive work and family benefits, a wealth of health and wellness programs and resources, and much more.
Penn Athletics is a broad-based Division that serves the University community through 33 intercollegiate varsity programs and diverse recreational offerings. Penn is home to two of the most iconic venues in college athletics, The Palestra and Franklin Field. The Quakers are proud members of the Ivy League. The Division aims to make an impact through athletics by empowering individual excellence and fostering community through varsity, club, and recreational activities. Penn Campus Recreation sponsors 36 club sports and hundreds of intramural teams to provide opportunities to students, both undergraduate and graduate, and faculty/staff. A wide-array of classes and programs are offered through the Pottruck Health and Fitness Center and the Fox Fitness Center for recreation and wellness. http://www.pennathletics.com/
Under limited supervision, assist in all facets of the intercollegiate football program. Responsibilities include on-the-field coaching, academic and social guidance and development of student-athletes, evaluation and recruiting of potential student-athletes, and public relations. Reports to the Head Football Coach.
A Bachelor's Degree and 2 years to 3 years of college work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Strong
audiovisual and computer skills desirable. Working knowledge of NCAA/Ivy League rules and regulations preferred. This is a 10 month position with June and July off. Must be able to travel and work evenings and weekends as required. Valid drivers license required.
Penn adheres to a policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, creed, national or ethnic origin, citizenship status, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected class.