International Crisis Group

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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 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]

Spinwatch resources

Jan Oberg, [http://www.spinwatch.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=807

Who Pays the Piper? The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research], April 15, 2005