Transnational Institute
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| Abbreviation | TNI |
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| Formation | 1973 |
| Type | Transnational alternative policy group, think tank |
| Focus | globalization, corporate power, social and ecological justice |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Product | critical research, policy analysis, proposals for alternatives, conferences, workshops |
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Director
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Fiona Dove |
| Website | www.tni.org |
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is a transnational alternative policy group and “network of scholar-activists”’ that produces critical research oriented toward enhancing democracy, social justice and ecological sustainability. It was established in 1973 in Amsterdam, originally as the international branch of the Institute for Policy Studies.
TNI's research seeks to challenge existing corporate priorities and state policies, and advocate for alternative globalization policies that are more sustainable, just and democratic.
It produces macro-level analyzes and critiques of the current global order, focused on six key programs or issues:
1. The Agrarian Justice project brings together research and analysis on the collective struggles of rural working people to democratize access, ownership, and local, national and global alliance of small-scale farmers, fisherfolk and marginalized rural working people.
2. The Corporate Power project develops analysis and proposals on how to end corporate impunity and dismantle corporate power. It is a lead facilitator of the international movement "Stop Corporate Impunity" and supports international efforts to establish binding international legal obligations for TNCs.
3. The Drugs & Democracy project analyzes drug policies and trends in the illicit drugs market. TNI examines the underlying causes of drug production and consumption and the impacts of current drug policies on conflict, development and democracy. The program facilitates dialogue and advocates evidence-based policies, guided by principles of harm reduction and human right for users and producers.
4. The Environmental Justice project is part of the Economic Justice, Corporate Power and Alternative program. TNI's emerging work on the corporate expansion into air, water and nature as a whole builds on work dating back to the early 1990s on the privatization of nature, more recent work on critiquing carbon trading and current work on land and water grabbing. It also links closely to TNI's new program on corporate power and accountability.
5. The Myanmar in Focus project strengthens civil society and political actors to deal with the challenges brought about by the rapid opening-up of the country, while also working to bring about an inclusive and sustainable peace. TNI has developed a unique expertise on Myanmar's ethnic regions, and through its program is bringing the whole Institute's work on agrarian justice, alternative development and a human drugs policy together.
6. The Peace and Security project brings together cutting-edge analyzes of critical conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan and its regional implications and is pioneering research on the little-publicized spread on new security infrastructure in Europe and worldwide.
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