Coping with Crisis
Coping with Crisis, Conflict, and Change: The United Nations and evolving capacities for managing global crises (‘Coping with Crisis’) is a multi-year research and policy-facilitation program on emerging security challenges and multilateral response capacities.
Staff
Terje Rod-Larsen, President
Mr. Edward Luck, Senior Vice President and Director of Studies
Mr. Francesco Mancini, Deputy Director of Studies
Dr. James Cockayne, Senior Associate
Coping with Crisis seeks to inform and assist decisionmakers in the UN, multilateral organizations, member state capitals, and civil society by the following:
- Conducting research and analysis on the dynamics and interlinkages of key challenges to human and international security;
- Analyzing gaps in prevention and response capacities, with an emphasis on the UN and other international institutions;
- Developing ideas for critical reform initiatives and facilitating policy initiatives within and across institutions.
CWC’s work includes the following projects:
- Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity
- Working Paper Series
- Organized Crime
- Private Security
- Terrorism
- Management of UN Peace Operations
- The UN Security Council and Compliance – Coming Soon.
Program Support
Coping with Crisis benefits from the generous support of the Governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
