News

New Internship with the Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict Programme

Thursday, 11 March 2010

ORG is advertising an internship with its Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict Programme for Spring-Autumn 2010. Applications will be accepted until April 6th 2010. For further details and to download an application form, please go to our Internships section.

New Internship Opportunities - Human Security in the Middle East Programme

Monday, 01 March 2010

ORG is advertising an internship with its Middle East Programme for Spring-Autumn 2010. Applications will be accepted until March 10 2010. For further details and to download an application form, please go to our Internships section.

New Internship with the Sustainable Security Programme

Monday, 08 February 2010

ORG is advertising an internship with its Sustainable Security Programme for Spring-Autumn 2010. This is an exciting opportunity to work with the newly-appointed Programme Manager on a new phase of activity aimed at contributing to a substantial shift in the government and public understanding of the real threats to global security in the 21st century. Applications will be accepted until 24 February 2010. For further details and to download an application form, please go to our Internships section.

ORG announces new senior staff appointments

Saturday, 28 November 2009

ORG is pleased to announce two new appointments to its senior team. Read more

ORG's founder appointed Patron

Saturday, 28 November 2009

ORG is delighted to announce the appointment of ORG's founder, Dr Scilla Elworthy, as Patron, to serve alongside recently appointed Patrons Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Baroness Shirley Williams, and Ashraf Ghani.   This appointment comes at the end of the year in which Scilla stepped down from membership of the ORG Board, thus completing 27 years of unbroken service to ORG, as Executive Director from 1982-2003, as Chair of the Board from 2003-2007, and as ordinary Board member from 2007-2009.   The announcement was made at a private reception for ORG sustai Read more

Casualty recorders issue joint communique

Saturday, 28 November 2009

The Recording Casualties of Armed Conflict International Practitioner's Network is pleased to announce the release of its first joint communique on 25th November 2009. Twenty organisations so far, from around the world, declare: "We will collaborate to raise our capacity, visibility and collective strength, thereby enhancing casualty recording activities worldwide." The full communique and a list of signatories is available here.

ORG launches new web site to promote Sustainable Security

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Sustainablesecurty.org is a new website launched by Oxford Research Group on September 10th 2009. It is a repository for the best thinking about a new approach to global security, one that concentrates on addressing the root causes of conflict rather than managing their symptoms. Read more

Recording Civilian Casualties in NATO Operations

Wednesday, 13 May 2009

ORG has published The Need to Acquire Accurate Casualty Records in NATO Operations by John Sloboda. This paper is based on a presentation to the NATO Shadow Conference "Strategies, Options and Solutions for NATO Reform: Towards a New Strategic Concept in 2010" organised by BASIC, ISIS Europe, NATO Watch and Bertelsmann Stiftung on 31 March 2009 in Brussels.

Sustainable Security in the Middle East and North Africa

Friday, 20 March 2009

ORG has published the second in a series of reports based on the outcomes of six regional consultations on sustainable security. The report, From Within and Without: Sustainable Security in the Middle East and North Africa, includes an integrated analysis of the regional drivers of insecurity and blockages to change in MENA, together with recommendations for policy-makers.

Patron Video Messages

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

In November 2008, we announced three new Patrons for ORG at an event at which one of them, Shirley Williams, spoke on "What opportunities are there for the incoming President to make a decisive difference in world affairs". At that event we also played brief video messages from our other new Patrons. These videos are now available to watch on our website here (Desmond Tutu) and here (Ashraf Ghani).