International Alert
| Formation | 1985 |
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| Founder | Leo Kuper, Michael Young, Martin Ennals, Luis Kutner |
| Merger of | Standing International Forum on Ethnic Conflict, Development and Human Rights; International Alert on Genocide and Massacres |
| Registration no. | Charity Commission number: 327553 |
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| Slogan | Peace is within our power |
| Website | http://www.international-alert.org/ |
International Alert is a non-profit organisation focusing on peacebuilding activities. It has been independently characterised as a "major non-governmental organization" and a "major driver of change in international politics" that makes "conflict prevention and resolution issues an important sphere of action among governments, IGOs and NGOs." Its publications are required or recommended reading at a number of higher education institutions, and its work has received attention in both mainstream and specialist media.
International Alert was an early advocate for the development of conflict early warning systems. Its work on gender and peacebuilding was important in establishing the necessity of incorporating gender relations and female stakeholders in conflict early warning systems.
By the early 1990s, International Alert was using the HURIDOCS database in conjunction with early Internet conferencing systems, to enable it to keep abreast of and interact with "local and international nongovernmental organizations and international experts." Through the mid-1990s, by applying a combination of manual and automated analysis in conjunction with such systems, researchers collaborating with International Alert performed early data mining research, demonstrating the viability of this approach for predicting conflict outcomes and encouraging the development of a website for the African Union's Continental Early Warning System (CEWS).
In 2001, as part of International Alert's Women Building Peace campaign, the organisation collaborated with the United Nations Development Fund for Women awarded a Millennium Peace Prize for Women.
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