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Alert's Secretary General offered professorship

Dan Smith will join Manchester University as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies

We are pleased to announce that our Secretary General, Dan Smith, has been offered a professorship at the University of Manchester's Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute (HCRI). Dan will be joining HCRI as Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies in January 2014, while continuing in his role as Secretary General at International Alert...

Red Flags for companies

New iPhone app provides guidance on working in high-risk areas

We have launched a free iPhone app to warn businesses about the risks of them being implicated in human rights abuses in high-risk areas. Download the app here. The app highlights nine areas that should raise "red flags" of warning for companies working in places where there is a heightened risk of human rights abuse. These include:...

Is overseas aid an instrument of soft power?

A blog by our Director of Programmes

I was giving evidence to a UK House of Lords select committee on aid as an instrument of soft power yesterday (watch the meeting here), so spent a bit of time researching what “soft power” actually means. It turns out it’s not just a fancy word for “influence” – though you probably knew that already...

Gender-responsive peacebuilding

Alert trains UN to integrate gender in post-conflict countries

International Alert’s training and learning team recently held a four-day training on gender-responsive peacebuilding for UN Women and the UN's Peacebuilding Support Office (PBSO) in New York. The aim of the training was to develop the capacity of 30 UN field staff in post-conflict countries to integrate gender, peace and conflict...