ICOS Programs
Human Security and Youth Inclusion
Strategies employed in conflict zones in recent years have failed to stop a steady flow of young recruits to the ranks of insurgent groups. To prevent the process of recruitment and radicalisation, it is crucial to intervene at the earliest possible stage. Addressing the grievances and needs of the “Angry Young Men” is a means of early intervention to avoid radicalisation.
ICOS Centre of Excellence on Human Security and Youth Inclusion
London, UK / Kabul, Afghanistan
Education and Employment
The ICOS initiative on Education and Employment aims to identify ongoing local challenges of a rapidly changing society and provide research, advocacy and innovative policy analysis to encourage pragmatic responses and cost-effective long-term solutions.
ICOS Centre of Excellence in Education and Employment
Sharjah, UAE
Security and Citizenship
The ICOS Security and Citizenship programme combines innovative research and policy analysis to
promote pragmatic responses to today's most pressing social challenges. ICOS aims to promote the
values of citizenship and empowerment in communities at the grassroots level: processes of social
transformation are achieved through multi-sector policy initiatives and joint responsibility. ICOS
supports communities to become safer, paving the way for social and economic development. The
ICOS Centre of Excellence on Security and Citizenship is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
ICOS Centre of Excellence on Security and Citizenship
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Rome Consensus
The Rome Consensus commits 121 National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe to promote and implement humanitarian approaches to drug use. The Rome Consensus aims to bring drugs and drug use to the forefront of social concerns, focusing drug response formulation and implementation on a public health approach.
The Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy
London, UK
Global Food Security
In collaboration with the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and CINI, ICOS is developing a new project, The Global Food Security Initiative, examining the intersections between food security, development, and state security. The project currently has its focus on India and Brazil, as two countries that are widely affected by these issues.
ICOS Centre of Excellence on Food Security
New Delhi, India
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ICOS News
ICOS Report: Afghanistan: The Relationship Gap
As the war in Afghanistan enters another summer of increasing violence, the international community is focusing its attention on Kandahar province, the spiritual and political heartland of the Taliban insurgency. At the same time, there is growing pressure for a withdrawal among the public in the member countries of the NATO-ISAF coalition is growing.
To assess the attitude of the Afghan people towards key issues, ICOS interviewed 552 Afghan men across Kandahar and Helmand provinces in June 2010.
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ICOS Fieldwork Research on Emirati Youth Unemployment
In collaboration with the Emirates Foundation for Philanthropy, ICOS conducted an extensive fieldwork study with Emirati youth in 2009 producing analysis on the perceptions of unemployed youth on the causes, effects and solutions to their unemployment.
The study aimed to understand the issues of employment and education from the perspective of the unemployed youth themselves, which is a valuable added dimension to understanding the situation as a whole. Findings of the study have demonstrated the eagerness of Emirati youth to become involved in improving their employment situation. Understanding their own perceptions of their social, educational, and economic context is essential to tackling the challenge of high youth unemployment amongst young Emiratis.
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> Download the report: Unemployed Youth in the UAE - Personal Perceptions and Recommendations
Mr Eduardo Vetere presented with Lifetime Achievement Award
During an official dinner for the Heads of Delegations at the 10th Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Congress in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, ICOS
presented a lifetime achievement award to Mr Eduardo Vetere, one of the founders of the United Nations Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice programme, for his dedicated efforts in crime prevention
and combating organised crime.
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The Global Food Security Initiative portal is now online. The Global Food Security portal has the aim of offering a "one stop shop" for information on food security around the world. This is achieved through the management and organisation of information regarding food security policy and related issues comprehensively in one place.
Global Food Security Initiative
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Licensing poppy cultivation for the production of essential medicines :
An integrated counter-narcotics, development, and counter-insurgency initiative that seeks to introduce village-based development projects in rural Afghan communities to boost employment and rural development, stimulate rural diversification and connect Afghan poppy cultivation with those in need of essential painkilling medicines.
> Poppy for Medicine
> New Oped: Poppy for Medicine: An Essential Part of a Balanced Economic Development Solution for Afghanistan's Illegal Opium Economy, by Romesh Bhattacharji, Former Narcotics Commissioner of India, and Jorrit E.M. Kamminga, International Council on Security and Development (ICOS)
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The Rome Consensus for a Humanitarian Drug Policy is a framework for dialogue and cooperation that commits 119 National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe to promote and implement humanitarian approaches to drug policy.
Latest event: Drug Prevention, Treatment and Harm Reduction: Scaling-up of Red Cross-Red Crescent Best Practices, Rome, 14-15 December 2009
 December 15th - Cyprus join the Rome Consensus
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Areas of Taliban presence in Afghanistan, January-August 2009
Locations of violence and levels of Taliban-criminal presence in Kabul, January-November 2008
Somalia - April 2008
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 Baghlan Taliban stopping an Afghan police patrol and stealing their equipment in the northern province of Baghlan.
Taliban at the Gates Kabul is witnessing dire levels of security as the Taliban break through the city's gates.
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