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 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

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

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.