INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP TOY SOROS KAI TOY BRZEZINSKI

ΕΝΑΣ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΣ ΜΗ ΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΤΙΚΟΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΣ ΠΟΥ ΑΣΧΟΛΕΙΤΑΙ , ΟΠΩΣ ΔΗΛΩΝΕΙ, ΜΕ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΛΕΤΗ ΚΑΙ ΤΗΝ ΕΠΙΛΥΣΗ ΚΡΙΣΕΩΝ ΑΝΑ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ.

ΟΛΟΙ ΑΥΤΟΙ ΕΝΔΙΑΦΕΡΟΝΤΑΙ ΚΑΙ ΔΕΙΧΝΟΥΝ ΖΗΛΟ ΚΑΙ ΔΙΑΘΕΤΟΥΝ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΑ ΓΙΑ ΤΟ «ΚΑΛΟ» ΤΗΣ ΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΤΗΤΑΣ.

ΓΙ’ ΑΥΤΟ Ο ΚΟΣΜΟΣ ΕΧΕΙ ΠΛΕΟΝ ΗΡΕΜΗΣΕΙ.

ΜΑΛΛΟΝ ΑΥΤΟΙ ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΟΥΝ ΤΙΣ ΚΡΙΣΕΙΣ……….

Crisis Group was founded in 1995 as an international non-governmental organisation on the initiative of a group of well known transatlantic figures who despaired at the international community’s failure to anticipate and respond effectively to the tragedies in the early 1990s of Somalia, Rwanda and Bosnia. They were led by Morton Abramowitz (former U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Thailand, then President of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace), Mark Malloch Brown (later head of the UNDP, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN and UK Minister for Africa,  Asia  and  the UN), and  its first  Chairman, Senator  George Mitchell.  The idea was  to create a  new organisation – unlike any other – with a highly professional staff acting as the world’s eyes and ears for impending conflicts, and with a highly influential board that could mobilise effective action from the world’s policy-makers.

ΑΣ ΔΟΥΜΕ ΠΟΙΟΙ ΑΠΟΤΕΛΟΥΝ ΤΗΝ ΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΗ ΤΟΥ ΟΡΓΑΝΙΣΜΟΥ ΑΥΤΟΥ:

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – MEDIA RELEASE

CORRECTION: Crisis Group Board Members Media Release

 

The media release sent to you yesterday announcing the composition of  Crisis Group’s Board of Trustees from 1 July 2008  inadvertently omitted the name of present and continuing Board member Samantha Power. The corrected list is attached.

 

 

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP BOARD OF TRUSTEES
FROM 1 JULY 2008

Co-Chairs
Lord (Christopher) Patten
Former European Commissioner for External Relations, Governor of Hong Kong and UK Cabinet Minister; Chancellor of Oxford and Newcastle Universities

Ambassador Thomas R Pickering
Former U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Russia, India, Israel, Jordan, El Salvador and Nigeria; Vice Chairman of Hills & Company

President & CEO
Gareth Evans
Former Foreign Minister of Australia

Executive Committee

Morton Abramowitz
Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and Ambassador to Turkey

Emma Bonino* (Vice-Chair)
Former Minister of International Trade and European Affairs, Italy; Former European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid

Cheryl Carolus
Former South African High Commissioner to the UK and Secretary General of the ANC

Maria Livanos Cattaui
Member of the Board of Directors, Petroplus Holding AG, Switzerland; Former Secretary-General, International Chamber of Commerce

Yoichi Funabashi
Editor-in-Chief & Columnist, The Asahi Shimbun, Japan

Frank Giustra
Chairman, Endeavour Financial, Canada

Stephen Solarz
Former U.S. Congressman

George Soros
Chairman, Open Society Institute

Pär Stenbäck
Former Foreign Minister of Finland

Other Board Members

Adnan Abu-Odeh
Former Political Adviser to King Abdullah II and to King Hussein, and Jordan Permanent Representative to the UN

Kenneth Adelman
Former U.S. Ambassador and Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency

Ali Alatas*
Former Foreign Minister of Indonesia

HRH Prince Turki al-Faisal*
Former Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America

Kofi Annan*
Former Secretary-General of the United Nations; Nobel Peace Prize (2001)

Louise Arbour*
Former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights; Former Chief Prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda

Richard Armitage*
Former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State

 Lord (Paddy) Ashdown*
Former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina; Former leader of the Liberal Democrats, UK

Shlomo Ben-Ami
Former Foreign Minister of Israel

Lakhdar Brahimi
Former Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General and Algerian Foreign Minister

Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former U.S. National Security Advisor to the President

Kim Campbell
Former Prime Minister of Canada

Naresh Chandra
Former Indian Cabinet Secretary and Ambassador of India to the U.S.

Joaquim Alberto Chissano
Former President of Mozambique

Wesley Clark
Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Europe

Pat Cox
Former President of European Parliament

Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
Former Foreign Minister of Denmark

Mark Eyskens
Former Prime Minister of Belgium

Joschka Fischer
Former Foreign Minister of Germany

Yegor Gaidar*
Former Prime Minister of Russia

Leslie H. Gelb
President Emeritus of Council on Foreign Relations, U.S.

Carla Hills
Former Secretary of Housing and U.S. Trade Representative

Lena Hjelm-Wallén
Former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden

Swanee Hunt
Chair, The Initiative for Inclusive Security; President, Hunt Alternatives Fund; former U.S. Ambassador to Austria

Anwar Ibrahim
Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia

Asma Jahangir
UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief; Chairperson, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

James V. Kimsey
Founder and Chairman Emeritus of America Online, Inc.

Wim Kok
Former Prime Minister of the Netherlands

Alexander Kwaśniewski*
Former President of Poland

Ricardo Lagos
Former President of Chile

 Joanne Leedom-Ackerman
Novelist and journalist, U.S.

Jessica Tuchman Matthews*
President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moisés Naím*
Editor-in-chief, Foreign Policy magazine

Ayo Obe
Chair of Steering Committee of World Movement for Democracy, Nigeria

Christine Ockrent
Journalist and author, France

Victor Pinchuk
Founder of Interpipe Scientific and Industrial Production Group

 Samantha Power
Author and Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Fidel V. Ramos
Former President of Philippines

Güler Sabancı*
Chairperson, Sabancı Holding, Turkey

Ghassan Salamé
Former Minister, Lebanon; Professor of International Relations, Paris

Thorvald Stoltenberg
Former Foreign Minister of Norway

Larry Summers*
Former President, Harvard University; Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury

 Ernesto Zedillo
Former President of Mexico; Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

* New Members July 2008

ΠΟΛΛΟΙ ΠΡΩΗΝ ΠΡΟΕΔΡΟΙ ΚΑΙ ΠΡΩΗΝ …ΠΡΩΗΝ…

ΤΑ ΜΕΛΗ ΤΗΣ ΔΙΟΙΚΗΣΗΣ ΟΠΩΣ ΦΑΙΝΟΝΤΑΙ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΣΕΛΙΔΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΔΩ

ΜΙΑ ΓΡΗΓΟΡΗ ΕΙΚΟΝΑ:

Quick Facts and Figures:

• Founded: 1995
• Annual budget (2008): US$ 15 million
• Number of staff worldwide: 140 full-time, from 48 nationalities with 53 languages
• Number of conflict and potential conflict situations covered: 61
• Number of reports and briefings published annually: around 90, plus monthly CrisisWatch
• Number of reports and briefings published since 1995: 780, plus 55 issues of CrisisWatch
• Number of targeted recipients of reports: over 25,000
• Number of people subscribing through website to receive reports: over 100,000
• Number of annual website visits: over 2 million
• Number of annual media mentions worldwide: over 13,000
• Number of opinion pieces published annually: over 200
• President and CEO: Gareth Evans, former Australian Foreign Minister (since January 2000)

ΟΙ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΟΔΟΤΕΣ ΤΟΥ :

Governments and Intergovernmental Institutions
(funding Crisis Group in 2007-08)

• Australian Agency for International Development
• Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• Austrian Development Agency
• Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
• Canadian International Development Agency
• Canadian International Development Research Centre
• Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• German Foreign Office
• Irish Aid
• Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• New Zealand Agency for International Development 
• Principality of Liechtenstein
• Royal Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Qatar 
• Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs
• Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
• Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs 
• United Kingdom Department for International Development
• Economic and Social Research Council UK 
• United States Agency for International Development

Foundations

• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
• Ford Foundation
• DARA Internacional
• Hunt Alternatives Fund
• Jewish World Watch
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Korea Foundation
• Open Society Institute
• Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Fund
• Ploughshares Fund
• Pro Victimis Foundation
• Sigrid Rausing Trust
• VIVATrust
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Companies

• APCO Worldwide
• Boies, Schiller  & Flexner LLP
• Canaccord Adams Limited
• Chevron
• Credit Suisse
• Equinox Partners
• Frontier Strategy Group
• PricewaterhouseCoopers – Netherlands
• Shearman & Sterling LLP
• StatoilHydro ASA
• Tilleke & Gibbins International Ltd.
• Vale
• White & Case LLP
• Yapi Merkezi Construction and Industry Inc.

 

Individual Donors

(01.01.2007 – 31.12.2007)

 

Ken Abramowitz, Marc Abramowitz, Mort Abramowitz, Kenneth Adelman, Ronnie Aked, Hamza al Kholi, Melody Anderson, Alison Andreas, Arab Culture Club, Barbara Arnold, Ed Bachrach, Arlene Bear, Anne Becker, Theresa Becks, Patrick Benzie, Stanley & Marion Bergman, Catherine Bergmann, Sean Bezdicek, Dr. N. Bhuvanendran, George Biddle, The Bishop’s School, Blair Blackwell, Shirley Blazer, Harry Bookey & Pamela Bass-Bookey, Benjamin Brafman, Justin Brill, David Brown, Sarah Brown, Mary Jane Burt, Kim Campbell, Willem Campschreur, Maria Livanos Cattaui, Changing the Present, John Chapman Chester, Rachel Cherington, Simon & Diana Clark, Wesley Clark, Nicholas Clark, Emily & Storey Clayton, Margaret Coates, Didier Codani, Combined Federal Campaign, Richard Cooper, Bob Cross, Victor Dahdaleh, Jozelyn Davis, Xavier de Villepin, Neil DeFeo, William & Phyllis Draper, Jodie & John Eastman, Louise Eastman, Sebnem Eler, Eli Epstein, Jess Fardella, Richard Fathy & Joan Burke, Rebecca Feldman, Maya Fischoff, Nancy Fleischer, Juan Flores, Charles Ganoe, Leah Gary, Gelman, Rosenberg & Freedman, Sassan Ghahramani, Tarek Ghani, Wayne Giddings, Seth Ginns, Frank Giustra, Global Village Fund (ref: David Phillips), Harrison & Diana Goldin, Greater Miami Jewish Federation, Alan Griffiths, Gary Grossman, Mette Grøtteland, Paul Guilden, Iara Lee & George Gund III, Michael Hann, Henrik Hansson, Rita Hauser, Mark Haworth, Laura Herndon, Carla Hills, Geoffrey Hoguet & Anna Luisa Ponti, Frank Holmes, Eleanor Holtzman, Daniel Huang, Diane Jacobsen, Santo Jowers, Khaled Juffali, John Kaiser, Yvette Kasparian, Julie Katzman, Pierre Keller, Shiv Vikram Khemka, Rita & Gerald Kibler, Stephen Killelea, Clemens Koerdt, Taylor Krauss, Elliott Kulick, Burton & Dale Kushner, Ian Kysel, Anthony Lake, Landegger Charitable Foundation, Scott Lawlor, Howard & Jacqueline Levine, Sherman Lewis, Annette Lidawer, George Loening, James Lowenstein, Stephen McKenna, Carol McQueen, Stuart Mieher, Alman Metten, Florian Michel, Najib Mikati, George Mitchell, James Moran, Mark Mulligan, Amy Neuhardt, Stewart Newton, Dirk Neyhart, Ford Nicholson, Herman Noppen, Catherine & Guy Nordenson, Bernard Nussbaum, Anthony & Nancy Ody, James O’Meara, Jonathan Ouellette, Alex Papachristou, Nicholas Paumgarten, Rachel Pearson, Donald Pels, Victor Pinchuk, The Power Foundation, Claire Prendergast, Helen Raffel, Phil Rinehart, Michael Riordan, Brian Roessler, Marcia Roismann, Jonathan & Diana Rose, Nancy Rubin, Richard Ruble, Sarlo Foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund, Carl Schneider, Lester Schrieberg , Simon Schwab, Lucy Clare Scriven, Joel Selden, Derek Shackleford, Raul Silva, Adele Simmons, Riva & Alan Slifka, Nancy Soderberg, Stephen Solarz, Donald Spates, Elizabeth Stathakis, Donald Steinberg & Raquel Willerman, Walter Stewart, William & Sally Taylor, Julie Taymor, Ian Telfer, Martin Tempus, Jacqueline Thomas, Cynthia Toomer, Leilani Torres, Carolyn Trunca, Linh Tu, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Blair County, Jeffrey Urbina & Gaye Hill, Claire Vallings, James Voorhees, United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania, Patricia Weiss Fagen, Ned Wells, John Whitehead, The Whitehead Foundation, Heidi Wohl, Regina Woodleigh, Neil Woodyer, Don Xia, Yasuyo Yamazaki, Shinji Yazaki, Louis Young, S. Zakari, Ernesto Zedillo, Ezra & Cecile Zilkha

 

NB: Crisis Group also receives grants from individuals wishing to remain anonymous

Η ΤΕΛΕΥΤΑΙΑ ΧΡΗΜΑΤΟΔΟΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΣΤΡΑΤΕΙΑ ΤΟΥ ΕΥΑΓΟΥΣ ΙΔΡΥΜΑΤΟΣ

INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP – MEDIA RELEASE

$20 Million Gifts Launch Crisis Group Capital Fundraising Campaign

 

New York, 30 April 2008:

The International Crisis Group launches today in New York its new 50-million-dollar Securing the Future capital fundraising campaign.

The campaign is off to a flying start with the announcement today – at a lunch honouring Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Finnish diplomat and former President Martti Ahtisaari – of four initial grants of $5 million each from:

o The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, which supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just and peaceful world (www.macfound.org

), and through its President Jonathan Fanton encouraged Crisis Group to launch this campaign;

o George Soros, foundation Trustee and long-time core supporter of Crisis Group, Chairman of the Open Society Institute, writer and philosopher, and one of the world’s top philanthropists;

o Frank Giustra, Canadian global business leader, leading international philanthropist and Crisis Group Trustee; and

o The Victor Pinchuk Foundation, the large private philanthropic foundation founded by the Ukrainian investor and Crisis Group Trustee Victor Pinchuk.

Gareth Evans, Crisis Group’s President and CEO, said, “We are enormously grateful to our four cornerstone donors for the example they have set. They understand the major role Crisis Group is playing in securing the future of all those at risk from the horror and misery of deadly conflict. And they are helping us secure the organisation’s long-term future while greatly increasing our capacity to respond quickly and flexibly to emergencies.”

Founded in 1995, the International Crisis Group rings alarm bells, supports peace negotiations, and gives detailed advice to governments, the UN and major regional and international organisations on how to prevent war and make sustainable peace. With some 140 staff working throughout the world in over 60 areas of actual or potential conflict and mass atrocity crimes, Crisis Group is recognised as the world-leader in its field.

The $50 million target is around three times the organisation’s present annual operating budget, and funds raised will be divided between an endowment fund, designed to stabilise the base, generate a significant income flow, and reduce annual dependence on government and other major individual donors, and a more liquid reserve fund which will enable not only year-to-year continuity to be maintained but add a new flexibility to our capacity to respond strongly to new security crises as they arise.

In an extraordinary further commitment, George Soros has agreed to manage through his hedge fund Crisis Group’s new endowment fund, and to personally guarantee against any loss of principal up to an aggregate $50 million.

“Contribution to Crisis Group’s Securing the Future Fund will help bring the immeasurable dividends of peace and security, to innumerable men, women and children across the globe”, said Evans.

 

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