Civil Military Interaction

First launched in 2005 by the World Economic Forum (WEF), the Global Risks report is widely recognized as one of the world's leading publications on global risks. The report identifies risks of global relevance and offers leaders from business, government and civil society a tool to understand them as well as a way of identifying interconnections between them

The World Economic Forum have issued their yearly Global Risk Report and the top 10 risks for the coming decade

The Crisis Management Toolbox - From Civilian Crisis  Prevention to Peacebuilding: Principles, Actors, Instruments

The Crisis Management Toolbox - From Civilian Crisis  Prevention to Peacebuilding: Principles, Actors, Instruments

ECHO has issued Gender Age Marker Toolkit

Index Mundi generates Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.

Index Mundi generates Internet's most complete country profiles. This site contains detailed country statistics, charts, and maps compiled from multiple sources.

New data released by UNICEF shows some interesting trends in water, hygiene and sanitation (WASH) supply throughout East Asia and the Pacific (EAP).

This paper identifies lessons emerging from humanitarian interventions in violent urban settings. It is operationally oriented and intended primarily for field staff involved in programme design and evaluation. Lessons are drawn from case studies and evaluations of humanitarian organisations and agencies operating in such settings.

"World Humanitarian Data and Trends is an annual OCHA publication that presents global and country-level data and trends analysis on humanitarian crises and assistance. It provides data that helps to support policy-making and operational decisions"

UN publications , eBooks and Apps

Copernicus (previously Global Monitoring for Environment and Security - GMES) is an EU programme aimed at developing European information services based on satellite Earth Observation and in situ (non space) data..

To keep the world food supply/demand situation under continuous review, issue reports on the world food situation (See our Publications: Food Outlook, Crop Prospects and Food Situation, etc.), and provide early warnings of impending food crises in individual countries (See our Country Briefs).

"The FTS is a global, real-time database which records all reported international hummanitarian aid(including that for NGOs and the Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement, bilateral aid, in-kind aid, and private donations). FTS features a special focus on consolidated and flash appeals, because they cover the major humanitarian crises and because their funding requirements are well defined - which allows FTS to indicate to what extent populations in crisis receive humanitarian aid in proportion to needs. FTS is managed by the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). All FTS data are provided by donors or recipient organisations"

Syria Deeply is an independent digital media project led by journalists and technologists, exploring a new model of storytelling around a global crisis. Our goal is to build a better user experience of the story by adding context to content, using the latest digital tools of the day. Over time the hope is to add greater clarity, deeper understanding, and more sustained engagement to the global conversation.

Stability is an open-access and peer-reviewed journal. It cultivates research and analysis, makes it available free of charge and without delay. Its content combines the best of academic research with insights from policy-makers and practitioners for a tangible impact. It features research into interventions such as stabilisation, peacekeeping, state building, crime prevention, development cooperation and humanitarian assistance, addressing conflict and other forms of instability

Global Peace Index (GPI) report analyses the state of peace around the world, identifying trends in violence and conflict, as well as the key drivers of peace. Interactive mapportal showing the situation between 2008-2013, filtering on country and all underlaying indicators

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. It achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measurement; uncovering the relationship between peace, business and prosperity, and by promoting a better understanding of the cultural, economic and political factors that drive peacefulness

Information is an agent of change. Since its inception, back in 1964, IPS has believed in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization. This belief is reflected in our historic mission:

Welcome to The Complete World Development Report Online. Here you will find every page of every World Development Report published by the World Bank since 1978 in one convenient, cross-searchable website

The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources. It presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates.

The 2013 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI) has just been released. WDI 2013 provides a new look to high-quality cross-country comparable statistics about development and people's lives around the globe. All the new features of the WDI suite of products can be accessed from data.worldbank.org/wdi, and include: *New online tables with all the data tables , will be automatically updated when the database is updated four times a year, and can be accessed in web browsers or downloaded as PDF files *An improved WDI "DataFinder" application available in English, Spanish, French and Chinese, in tablet and mobile phone editions for both Android and iOS. The full text of the printed book is also included. *An update to the WDI database, including improved notes and metadata "about the data" from the printed book, explaining the relevance of the indicators for development, their source, and their methodology. *An updated version of the Little Data Book 2013