| AccountAbility |
AccountAbility is a non-profit, membership organization established in 1995 to promote accountability innovations that advance responsible business practices, and the broader accountability of civil society and public organizations. Its 350 members include businesses, NGOs and research bodies, and elect our international Council, which includes representatives from Brazil, India, North America, Russia, South Africa and Europe.
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| ActionAid International |
ActionAid is an international development agency that aims to fight poverty worldwide. Formed in 1972, for over 30 years it has been growing and expanding to where it is today: helping over 13 million of the world's poorest and most disadvantaged people in 42 countries worldwide.
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| Ashoka |
Ashoka's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated, and to develop the profession of social entrepreneurship around the world. Ashoka identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs—extraordinary individuals with unprecedented ideas for change in their communities—supporting them, their ideas and institutions through all phases of their careers. Ashoka Fellows benefit from being part of the global Fellowship for life. Ashoka's vision is that of a global society that is able to respond quickly and effectively to social challenges everywhere. Ashoka does not accept government funding; business entrepreneurs and their foundations, corporations, individuals and volunteer chapters finance Ashoka's work.
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| Business & Human Rights Resource Centre |
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is an independent, international, nonprofit organization working in a collaborative partnership with Amnesty International and leading academic institutions. Its online library documents the activities of more than 4,500 companies around the world, due in large measure to the Centre's network of regional researchers. The purpose of the organization is to promote greater awareness and informed discussion of important issues relating to business and human rights.
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| California Newsreel |
California Newsreel produces and distributes cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences. Founded in 1968, Newsreel is the oldest non-profit, social issue documentary film center in the country, the first to marry media production and contemporary social movements.
We are a leading resource center for the advancement of racial justice and diversity, and the study of African American life and history as well as African culture and politics. In 2006, we launched a new thematic focus for our work: the Global Economy, with an emphasis on the international division of labor. In the years ahead we look forward to continuing our traditions of innovation and responsible advocacy by providing films that help inform, educate and organize.
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| Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs |
The Carnegie Council's mission is to be the voice for ethics in international policy. The Council convenes agenda-setting forums and creates educational opportunities and information resources for a worldwide audience of teachers and students, journalists, international affairs professionals, and concerned citizens.
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| Center for Economic and Policy Research |
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people's lives. In order for citizens to effectively exercise their voices in a democracy, it is necessary that they be informed about the problems and choices that they face. CEPR is committed to presenting issues in an accurate and understandable manner, so that the public is better prepared to choose among the various policy options. Toward this end, CEPR conducts both professional research and public education. The professional research is oriented towards filling important gaps in the understanding of particular economic and social problems, or the impact of specific policies. The public education portion of CEPR's mission is to present the findings of professional research, both by CEPR and others, in a manner that allows broad segments of the public to know exactly what is at stake in major policy debates. An informed public should be able to choose policies that lead to an improving quality of life, both for people within the United States, and around the world. The goal of CEPR is ensure that the citizenry has the information and analysis that allows it to act effectively in the public interest.
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| Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health |
| The Center for Policy Analysis on Trade and Health (CPATH) is a
leading voice for public health in the global economy. CPATH's
research and advocacy link the public health, health care, and global
trade communities to create economically and socially just,
democratically accountable, and environmentally sustainable solutions
to the negative effects of economic globalization. The organization is dedicated
to promoting health, expanding access to affordable medicines and
vital human services including health care and water, and protecting
the public from harm due to tobacco, alcohol, and unsafe working
conditions. For information on CPATH's campaign for public health
representation in trade policy, and analysis of trade agreements
and health, go to: www.cpath.org.
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| Center of Concern |
For over thirty years, the Center of Concern has been enabling individuals, organizations and coalitions: 1. to explore and analyze the global issues and social structures from an ethical perspective based on Catholic Social Teaching; and 2. to become involved in strategies and projects that promote the good of the entire global community and the integrity of every individual. Since 1971, the Center of Concern has offered moral vision and provided effective leadership in the struggle to end hunger, poverty, environmental decline, and injustice in the United States and around the world. Its goal is to provide individuals and organizations with basic tools to address these universal questions: What are the root causes of human suffering in the world today? How can we change the system to increase social justice and offer hope? We provide reliable information and analysis on development issues, practical alternatives to current development policies and practical suggestions for personal action, and faith reflections on this work for justice.
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| Chatham House |
Chatham House is one of the world's leading organizations for the analysis of international issues. It is membership-based and aims to help individuals and organizations to be at the forefront of developments in an ever-changing and increasingly complex world.
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| Demos - A Network for Ideas & Action |
Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action is a non-partisan public policy research and advocacy organization committed to building an America that achieves its highest democratic ideals. We believe this requires a democracy that is robust and inclusive, with high levels of electoral participation and civic engagement; an economy where prosperity and opportunity are broadly shared and disparity is reduced; and a strong and effective public sector with the capacity to plan for the future and provide for the common good. Founded in 2000, Demos work combines research with advocacy—melding the commitment to ideas of a think tank with the organizing strategies of an advocacy group.
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| EthicsWorld |
EthicsWorld's mission is to disseminate information and strengthen understanding of the critical issues of institutional governance, business ethics, and anti-corruption. The website EthicsWorld.org aggregates a diversity of stories and key developments in corruption, governance, corporate social responsibility, and workplace ethics.
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| Focus on the Global South |
Focus on the Global South combines policy research, advocacy, activism, and grassroots capacity-building in order to generate critical analysis and encourage debates on national and international policies related to corporate-led globalization, neo-liberalism and militarization. Focus's overall goals are to: dismantle oppressive economic and political structures and institutions; to create liberating structures and institutions; to promote demilitarization and peace-building, instead of conflict. These three goals are brought together in the paradigm of deglobalization. This term describes the transformation of the global economy from one centered around the needs of transnational corporations to one that focuses on the needs of people, communities and nations and in which the capacities of local and national economies are strengthened.
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| Foreign Policy |
Founded in 1970 by Samuel Huntington and Warren Demian Manshel, and now published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., Foreign Policy is the premier, award-winning magazine of global politics, economics, and ideas. Our mission is to explain how the world works—in particular, how the process of global integration is reshaping nations, institutions, cultures, and, more fundamentally, our daily lives.
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| Forum on Democracy & Trade |
The Forum's mission is to support public officials engaged in global trade debates. Forum participants work to ensure that U.S. trade policies are consistent with, and deferential to, the principles of federalism as enshrined in the constitution.
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| Fundacion Agenda Colombia |
| The Fundación Agenda Colombia is a private entity whose main objective is to promote the debate of topics such as economy, policy, social development and the environment. The goal is that during the course of this discussion, a space for pluralist and inclusive dialogues is formed, aiming to create a more democratic analysis of public policy issues. |
| Global Development And Environment Institute |
The Tufts University Global Development And Environment Institute (GDAE) was founded in 1993 to combine the research and curricular development activities of two Tufts programs: the Program for Sustainable Change and Development in the School of Arts and Sciences (directed by economist Neva Goodwin), and the International Environment and Resource Policy Program at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Directed by William Moomaw, a chemist and environmental policy specialist). The combination creates a center of expertise in economics, policy, science, and technology.
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| Global Envision |
Global Envision believes that the more that we understand about the free market system, how it affects us and our neighbors all over the globe, and how it can benefit us all, the better our chances that the global economy will thrive for the prosperity of all. By featuring educational resources, articles, stories and opinions about how economic policy and development can be made more inclusive, Global Envision provides models of how free markets can be a positive force in creating a more fair, just, and stable future.
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| Global Fairness Initiative |
The Global Fairness Initiative seeks a more equitable, sustainable approach to globalization: One that expands the reach of its benefits and opportunities while mitigating its human, economic and environmental costs. GFI’s mission is to promote change in existing trade and development models by supporting innovative initiatives that demonstrate the viability and widespread value of fair trade and investment standards.
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| Global Labor Institute, Cornell University |
| The Institute provides a unique venue for unions to work together to strengthen labor's response to the challenges posed by globalization. The goal of the Institute is to help union officers, staff and activists gain a deeper understanding of the policies and institutions that shape today’s world, and assist in bringing unionists based in different countries into contact with each other for meaningful discussion on strategy and policy. The Institute also facilitates dialogue between unions and other civil society organizations and movements committed to global justice. |
| Global Policy Forum |
Global Policy Forum (GPF) is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization, with consultative status at the UN. GPF’s mission is to monitor policy making at the United Nations, promote accountability of global decisions, educate and mobilize for global citizen participation, and advocate on vital issues of international peace and justice. GPF responds to a globalizing world, where officials, diplomats and corporate leaders take important policy decisions affecting all humanity, with little democratic oversight and accountability. GPF addresses this democratic deficit by monitoring the policy process, informing the public, analyzing the issues, and urging citizen action. GPF focuses on the United Nations—the most inclusive international institution, offering the best hope for a humane and sustainable future.
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| Global Voices Online |
Global Voices Online is a non-profit global citizens’ media project, sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. How Global Voices Works: A growing number of bloggers around the world are emerging as “bridge bloggers:” people who are talking about their country or region to a global audience. Global Voices is your guide to the most interesting conversations, information, and ideas appearing around the world on various forms of participatory media such as blogs, podcasts, photo sharing sites, and videoblogs. Our global team of regional blogger-editors is working to find, aggregate and track these conversations. Each day they link to 5-10 of the most interesting blog posts from their regions in the “daily roundups” section. A larger group of contributing bloggers is posting daily features in in the left-hand Weblog section, shedding light on what blogging communities in their countries have been talking about recently.
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| The Globalist |
The Globalist is a daily online feature service that covers the biggest story of our lifetime—globalization. Our business has for profit and non-profit components: Besides maintaining a public website, we offer a variety of licensing, syndication and sponsorship options to interested clients and partners. Our publication partners are global companies, international organizations, high schools, colleges and universities, newspapers as well as magazines, radio and TV stations and foundations.
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| Globalization101.org |
Globalization101.org is an Internet resource offered by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to promote a greater understanding of globalization. Globalization101.org addresses the following issues: What is globalization? Is it the integration of economic, political, and cultural systems across the globe? Or is it Americanization and United States dominance of world affairs? Is globalization a force for economic growth, prosperity, and democratic freedom? Or is it a force for environmental devastation, exploitation of the developing world, and suppression of human rights?
Globalization101.org provides information and interdisciplinary learning opportunities. Our goal is to challenge you to think about many of the controversies surrounding globalization and to promote an understanding of the trade-offs and dilemmas facing policy-makers. Globalization 101.org hopes to serve as an informative and engaging space for those interested in learning more about changes in the international economy.
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| Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy |
The Helsinki Process on Globalisation and Democracy is in search of novel and empowering solutions to the dilemmas of global governance and offers a forum for open and inclusive dialogue between major stakeholders. The process promotes solution-oriented co-operation between governments, civil society organisations and the corporate sector. Innovative, extensive and goal-oriented collaboration is needed, because conventional international processes are no longer able to provide answers for the problems brought on by globalisation.
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| Initiative for Policy Dialogue |
Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) at Columbia University in July 2000 to help developing countries explore policy alternatives, and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking. IPD is now a global network of more than 200 leading economists, political scientists, and practitioners from the North and South with diverse backgrounds and views. Read More >>
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| Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization |
Innovations is the only academic journal of its kind. The most widely read academic journals dealing with the interaction of technology and governance take a 30,000-foot view of both policy challenges and proposed policy solutions. Rarely do academic analyses of global policy challenges begin by looking at innovations. Rarely do practitioner-focused narratives seriously address innovations in their global context. Innovations does both. The audience for Innovations is a broad community of change agents. The content in Innovations brings together accounts (narratives), accounting (indicators), and accountability (governance). Innovations will be of interest to public servants whose method is entrepreneurial, and entrepreneurs whose projects have a public conscience; innovators interested in analysis, and scholars interested in innovations. Each issue of Innovations analyzes best local practices in a global context. Innovations is based on two simple premises. The first: while culture and economics do create significant differences among populations, creativity is a characteristic shared by people everywhere. The second: while many pressing societal challenges are global, their solutions are local. Innovations in one place can inform and inspire innovations elsewhere.
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| Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy |
| IATP works with organizations around the world to analyze how global trade agreements impact domestic farm and food policies. Alongside a global coalition, IATP advocates for fair trade policies that promote strong health standards, labor and human rights, the environment and, most fundamentally, democratic institutions. 
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| Institute for Public Accuracy |
The Institute for Public Accuracy (IPA) was founded in mid-1997 by its current executive director, Norman Solomon, with the support of a two-year $100,000-per-year Public Interest Pioneer grant from the Stern Family Fund. IPA opened its national office in San Francisco in October 1997. Several months later, IPA established its media office in the National Press Building in Washington, D.C. It is a 501(c)(3) organization. IPA increases the reach and capacity of progressive and grassroots organizations (at no cost to them) to address public policy by getting them and their ideas into the mainstream media. IPA gains media access for those whose voices are commonly excluded or drowned out by government or corporate-backed institutions. As a national consortium of independent public-policy researchers, analysts and activists, IPA widens media exposure for progressive perspectives on many issues including the environment, human rights, foreign policy, and economic justice.
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| Intergovernmental Group of Twenty-Four (G24) |
The G-24 was established in 1971. Its main objective is to concert the position of developing countries on monetary and development finance issues.
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| International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) |
IDEAs was established with the purpose of building a pluralist network of heterodox economists engaged in the teaching, research and application of critical analyses of economic development. While the organization will be South-based, the network will be open to all committed to developing more appropriate and progressive analysis of development challenges.
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| New America Foundation |
The New America Foundation is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit public policy institute that was conceived through the collaborative work of a diverse and intergenerational group of public intellectuals, civic leaders, and business executives. New America's founding President and CEO is Ted Halstead, and its Board of Directors is chaired by James Fallows. Based in our nation's capital, the Foundation opened its doors in January 1999. The purpose of the New America Foundation is to bring exceptionally promising new voices and new ideas to the fore of our nation's public discourse. Relying on a venture capital approach, the Foundation invests in outstanding individuals and policy ideas that transcend the conventional political spectrum. Through its Fellowships and Policy Programs, New America sponsors a wide range of research, writing, conferences, and events on the most important issues of our time.
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| New Economics Foundation |
New Economics Foundation is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates real economic well-being. Its aim is to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues.
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| New Rules for Global Finance Coalition |
New Rules for Global Finance is a coalition of development, human rights, labor, environmental, and religious organizations and scholars dedicated to the reform of the global financial architecture in order to stabilize the world economy, reduce poverty and inequality, uphold fundamental rights, and protect the environment. The agenda of New Rules is driven by its members and their contributed services. We have challenged the rigid and often counter-productive Washington Consensus policies. We explored the merits and feasibility of a currency transaction tax (Tobin Tax). In close collaboration with developing country governments and NGOs, we are committed to the implementation of the Consensus Statement of the UN Financing for Development conference.
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| OneWorld United States |
OneWorld United States publishes U.S. and international perspectives on global issues gathered from OneWorld partners worldwide. OneWorld has a vision of equitable and sustainable distribution of wealth amongst the world's population, underpinned by global attainment and protection of human rights and by governance structures which permit local communities control over their own affairs. OneWorld is dedicated to harnessing the democratic potential of the internet to promote human rights and sustainable development. Read More >>
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| openDemocracy |
openDemocracy is a leading independent website on global current affairs.
Independent and not-for-profit, it is working to create a new type of democratic and open media that reflects and promotes tolerance, democracy and human rights for all.
It offers intelligent, stimulating and critical analysis and reporting, and uses web technologies to facilitate dialogue and debate between people across borders, organizations and languages on issues of global importance. It works to ensure that voices marginalized by vested interests have an independent platform on which to speak and be heard, building an informed community committed to the values of human rights, free speech and democracy.
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| Oxfam International |
Oxfam works to overcome suffering through emergency aid and development programs that empower people to work their own way out of poverty.
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| Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts Amherst |
The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is actively engaged in research, dissemination, policy advising, and graduate student education. It also regularly sponsors conferences and other public events in its areas of research focus. Established in 1998, PERI is an independent unit at UMass with close ties to the Department of Economics. The Institute is committed to addressing basic issues of human and ecological well-being through research written for the general public, policy makers, and academic audiences.
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| Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative |
Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative (RR) addresses three urgent issues required for greater human development and security: fostering more equitable international trade and development; strengthening responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa; and shaping more humane migration policies. Our mission is to put human rights standards at the heart of global governance and policy-making and to ensure that the needs of the poorest and most vulnerable are addressed on the global stage.
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| Social Science Research Council |
The Social Science Research Council leads innovation, builds interdisciplinary and international networks, and focuses research on important public issues. Independent and not-for-profit, the Social Science Research Council is guided by the belief that justice, prosperity, and democracy all require better understanding of complex social, cultural, economic, and political processes. We work with practitioners, policymakers, and academic researchers in all the social sciences, related professions, and the humanities and natural sciences. With partners around the world, we mobilize existing knowledge for new problems, link research to practice and policy, strengthen individual and institutional capacities for learning, and enhance public access to information. We bring necessary knowledge to public action. Read More >>
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| South Centre |
| The South Centre is an intergovernmental organization of developing countries based in Geneva, Switzerland. Broadly, the Centre works to assist in developing points of view of the South on major policy issues, and to generate ideas and action-oriented proposals for consideration by the collectivity of South governments, institutions of South-South co-operation, inter-governmental organizations of the South, and non-governmental organizations and the community at large. It currently has 51 developing country Member States. |
| Student Movement for Real Change |
The Student Movement for Real Change is a leadership-development organization that provides students in the United States a vehicle to advocate for positive change in neglected regions of the world. We empower students to become leaders, giving them opportunities to improve health and education in developing communities worldwide. The Student Movement for Real Change (SMRC) was founded three and a half years ago in Denver, Colorado by Saul Garlick and has since grown to be a national organization endorsed by The Nelson Mandela Foundation. For the past year and a half, the Student Movement has been working diligently to build the Mashlati School of the Limpopo Province in South Africa. Today, the movement includes hundreds of students from Johns Hopkins University to Pomona College, all of whom participate in campus chapters of SMRC called the Student Movement for International Relief (SMIR). We have only begun our efforts to reach out to thousands more students.
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| Third World Network |
The Third World Network is an independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North-South issues. Its objectives are to conduct research on economic, social and environmental issues pertaining to the South; to publish books and magazines; to organize and participate in seminars; and to provide a platform representing broadly Southern interests and perspectives at international fora such as the UN conferences and processes.
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| UN Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) |
UNRISD is an autonomous UN agency engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development. Through its research, UNRISD stimulates dialogue and contributes to policy debates on key issues of social development within and outside the United Nations system.
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| United Nations Financing for Development Office |
| The objective of the Financing for Development Office is to provide effective secretariat support for sustained follow-up within the United Nations system to the agreements and commitments reached at the International Conference on Financing for Development, as contained in the Monterrey Consensus, as well as financing-for-development-related aspects of the outcomes of major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields, including the development goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration. |
| United Nations University (UNU) |
| The mission of the UNU is to contribute, through research and capacity building, to efforts to resolve the pressing global problems that are the concern of the United Nations, its Peoples and Member States. |
| Value News Network |
ValueNewsNetwork.com and Value magazine believe that investors, business, and society will benefit from a more rigorous examination of how real value is created. Investment approaches and outcomes vary widely—and value itself clearly consists of more than economic value. Value focuses on the best thinking about value; what works, what doesn't and the best strategies for maximizing social, environmental, and economic returns.
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| World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) |
The United Nations University's World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is an organization whose mission is to undertake multidisciplinary research and policy analysis on structural changes affecting the living conditions of the world's poorest people, to provide a forum for professional interaction and the advocacy of policies leading to robust, equitable and environmentally sustainable growth, and to promote capacity strengthening and training for scholars and government officials in the field of economic and social policy making. WIDER is the first research and training centre established in 1984 in Helsinki by the United Nations University (UNU). UNU is an international academic organization which promotes the UN's aims of peace and progress by providing a framework for bringing together leading scholars from around the world to tackle pressing global problems. Activities are carried out by the UNU Headquarters and its worldwide network of research and training centres and collaborating institutions.
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| YaleGlobal Online |
YaleGlobal Online is the flagship publication of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. The magazine explores the implications of the growing interconnectedness of the world by drawing on the rich intellectual resources of the Yale University community, scholars from other universities, and public- and private-sector experts from around the world.
Our aim is to analyze and promote debate on all aspects of globalization through publishing original articles and multi-media presentations. YaleGlobal also republishes, with a brief comment, important articles from other publications that illuminate the many sides of this complex phenomenon. To the extent permitted by copyright arrangements, YaleGlobal archives such articles and makes them available for search and retrieval.
We are also developing an archive of academic papers on globalization as well as book excerpts and reviews of books on the same subject. YaleGlobal also offers a selection of audio-visual presentations by speakers at Yale and elsewhere.
YaleGlobal is a free site open to the public at large. All articles and multimedia presentations on the site will remain archived and available for as long as technically and/or legally possible.
The articles published in YaleGlobal express the views of the authors and do not reflect the view of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization or Yale University.
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