Group of international NGOs, academics, lobbyists, UN agencies and governments involved in conflict research, campaigning, and policy development, aiming to draw together and support existing early warning networks to produce early warning reports containing analyses and policy recommendations which assist policy makers into taking action to prevent, contain and mitigate violent conflicts.
Research programme is focusing on:
- The Theory and Practice of Conflict Early Warning
- Best Practice – Most effective tools for Conflict Prevention
- Identifying and Understanding Policy Actors
WWW site includes sections on the Caucasus and African Great Lakes with full-text reports; and FEWER’s international news-wire monitoring and analysis project (run by the Global Events Data Systems (GEDS) centre at the University of Maryland’s Centre for International Development and Conflict)