The Fund for Peace is an independent, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) non-profit research and educational organization that works to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security.
They promote sustainable security through research, training and education, engagement of civil society, building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers.
A leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the Fund for Peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing states. Their objective is to create practical tools and approaches for conflict mitigation that are useful to decision-makers.
What Makes Them Unique
The Fund for Peace adopts a holistic approach to the issues stemming from weak and failing states. They work at both the grassroots level with civil society actors and at policy levels with key decision makers.
The Fund for Peace has worked in over 50 countries with a wide range of partners in all sectors: governments, international organizations, the military, nongovernmental organizations, academics, journalists, civil society networks, and the private sector.
Combining social science techniques with information technology, they have produced the patented Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST), a content analysis software product that provides a conceptual framework and a data gathering technique for measuring conflict risk.
They produce The Failed States Index, an annual ranking of 177 countries across 12 indicators, that is published by Foreign Policy magazine.
Approach
The Fund for Peace offers a wide range of initiatives focused on their central objective of promoting sustainable security, the ability of a state to solve its own problems peacefully without an external military or administrative presence. Their activities relate to three interconnected themes:
