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==Funding==
 
==Funding==
 
 
According to [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807 Jan Oberg]:
 
According to [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807 Jan Oberg]:
 
 
:A visit to Crisis Group's website reveals that 40% of its funds come from governments:
 
:A visit to Crisis Group's website reveals that 40% of its funds come from governments:
 
 
::Agence Intergouvernementale de la francophonie, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US. Isn't it a bit hard to believe that those who pay the piper would continue to do so, if reports were critical of government policies - Western governments and their conflict "management" in particular?
 
::Agence Intergouvernementale de la francophonie, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US. Isn't it a bit hard to believe that those who pay the piper would continue to do so, if reports were critical of government policies - Western governments and their conflict "management" in particular?
 
 
:ICG is also supported by various foundations (covering 43%) - [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]], [[Ford Foundation|Ford]], [[MacArthur foundation|MacArthur]], [[US Institute for Peace]] (established by Ronald Reagan), [[Carnegie Foundation|Carnegie]], [[Sarlo Jewish Community Endowment Fund]], Hewlett, etc. and private sector donors (16%)[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807]
 
:ICG is also supported by various foundations (covering 43%) - [[Rockefeller Foundation|Rockefeller]], [[Ford Foundation|Ford]], [[MacArthur foundation|MacArthur]], [[US Institute for Peace]] (established by Ronald Reagan), [[Carnegie Foundation|Carnegie]], [[Sarlo Jewish Community Endowment Fund]], Hewlett, etc. and private sector donors (16%)[http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807]
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===Foundation and private sector donors===
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*[[The Atlantic Philanthropies]]
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*[[Carnegie Corporation of New York]]
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*[[Ford Foundation]]
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*[[Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation]]
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*[[William & Flora Hewlett Foundation]]
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*[[The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.]]
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*[[John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation]]
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*[[The John Merck Fund]]
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*[[Charles Stewart Mott Foundation]]
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*[[Open Society Institute]]
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*[[Ploughshares Fund]]
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*[[Sigrid Rausing Trust]]
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*[[Sasakawa Peace Foundation]]
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*[[The Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund]]
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*[[United States Institute of Peace]]
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*[[Fundacão Oriente]]
  
 
==Spinwatch resources==
 
==Spinwatch resources==
 
Jan Oberg, [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807 The International Crisis Group: Who Pays the Piper?],''Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research'',  April 15, 2005
 
Jan Oberg, [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807 The International Crisis Group: Who Pays the Piper?],''Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research'',  April 15, 2005

Revision as of 13:01, 24 August 2006

International Crisis Group was founded in 1994 by World Bank Vice-President Mark Malloch Brown, former US diplomat Morton Abramowitz and Fred Cuny, an international disaster relief specialist who disappeared in Chechnya in 1995.

Principals

Executive Committee

Cheryl Carolus Maria Livanos Cattaui Yoichi Funabashi
Frank Giustra Stephen Solarz George Soros
Pär Stenbäck Morton Abramowitz Adnan Abu-Odeh
Kenneth Adelman Ersin Arioglu Shlomo Ben-Ami
Lakhdar Brahimi Zbigniew Brzezinski Kim Campbell
Naresh Chandra Joaquim Alberto Chissano Victor Chu
Wesley Clark Pat Cox Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Mark Eyskens Joschka Fischer Leslie H. Gelb
Carla Hills Lena Hjelm-Wallén Swanee Hunt
Anwar Ibrahim Asma Jahangir Nancy Kassebaum Baker
James V. Kimsey Wim Kok Trifun Kostovski
Ricardo Lagos Joanne Leedom-Ackerman Ayo Obe
Christine Ockrent Victor Pinchuk Fidel V. Ramos
Ghassan Salamé Douglas Schoen William Shawcross
Thorvald Stoltenberg Ernesto Zedillo  

Funding

According to Jan Oberg:

A visit to Crisis Group's website reveals that 40% of its funds come from governments:
Agence Intergouvernementale de la francophonie, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Holland, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Taiwan, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the UK and the US. Isn't it a bit hard to believe that those who pay the piper would continue to do so, if reports were critical of government policies - Western governments and their conflict "management" in particular?
ICG is also supported by various foundations (covering 43%) - Rockefeller, Ford, MacArthur, US Institute for Peace (established by Ronald Reagan), Carnegie, Sarlo Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Hewlett, etc. and private sector donors (16%)[1]

Foundation and private sector donors

Spinwatch resources

Jan Oberg, The International Crisis Group: Who Pays the Piper?,Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research, April 15, 2005