The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University works to enhance international responses to humanitarian crises and global security threats through applied research and direct engagement with multilateral institutions and the wider policy community.
It has an international reputation for agenda-setting work on post-conflict peacebuilding, global peace operations, and UN reform.
The Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University reached its tenth anniversary in 2006 during a period of intense debate about the future of multilateral institutions. CIC’s research and policy-development programs help policy-makers develop strategies for managing emerging and recurrent threats and to identify opportunities for institutional reform.
Staff-members have been directly involved in a series of high-profile initiatives to improve the performance of the multilateral system – including the IAEA’s Special Event on the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, and the reform process leading to the 2005 UN World Summit. Its research contributed to one of the major innovations agreed at the Summit: the creation of a UN Peacebuilding Commission.
CIC also provides direct research and policy support to UN missions and other actors in the field. The Afghanistan Reconstruction Program advised the government and the UN mission on the drafting and negotiation of the Afghanistan Compact; and the Post-Conflict Peacebuilding program supports Timor Leste’s reconstruction strategy.
CIC is committed to evidence-based policy development. Our humanitarian program generates a unique source of data on the safety and security of humanitarian workers; and the Annual Review of Global Peace Operations is the most comprehensive resource on peacekeeping available. Using data collection, field research and program evaluation, CIC lends rigor to debates about the performance of international institutions in the search for enhanced cooperation in the face of changing global security challenges.
Center on International Cooperation
New York University
418 Lafayette Street, Suite 543
New York, NY 10003
Tel. 212-998-3680
Fax 212-995-4706
cic.info@nyu.edu
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