Crisis States Research Centre
The aim of the Crisis States Research Centre at the London School of Economics is to provide new understanding of the causes of crisis and breakdown in the developing world and the processes of avoiding or overcoming them. Phase Two of the Crisis States Programme focuses on the following three areas: (1) Development as State Making: war, collapse and reconstruction; (2) Cities and States: conflict, war and reconstruction; and (3) Regional and Global Axes of Conflict.

Center for Unconventional Security Affairs, University of California, Irvine
The Center for Unconventional Security Affairs (CUSA) at the University of California, Irvine addresses the security challenges of the 21st century through innovative research and education programs that integrate experts from the public and private sectors. CUSA conducts research and provides a range of educational and public services focused on four areas related to threat and vulnerability: (1) Biological Security, (2) Environmental Security, (3) Global Terrorism, and (4) Human Security.

Environmental Youth Alliance
For over 15 years, EYA has been connecting people with the world: people to natural spaces, communities to resources, youth to capacity, business to sustainability, government to grassroots action and inspiring ideas with a place to actualize them. Environmental Youth Alliance (EYA) is a local youth driven non-profit organization dedicated to the health of our urban environment, our planet & the wellbeing of its people. By providing young people with meaningful employment, in projects that benefit our communities, EAY supports the environment socially as well as ecologically.

The Human Security Report Project
The Human Security Report Project aims to make human security-related research more accessible to the policy and research communities, the media, educators and the interested public. The HSRP's flagship publication, the Human Security Report, is complemented by the Human Security Gateway (an online database of human security resources), the Afghanistan Monitor (a website highlighting new research and analysis on the conflict in Afghanistan) and three online bulletins, Human Security News, Afghanistan Security News and Human Security Research. The HSRP, which is funded by five governments, runs regular policy workshops and undertakes its own independent research as well as commissioning research from individual scholars and research institutions around world.

International Development Research Centre
IDRC is a Canadian Crown corporation that works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world in their search for the means to build healthier, more equitable, and more prosperous societies. The IDRC's Peace, Conflict and Development program supports research for specific peace-building processes, as well as research on key peace-building challenges. PCD mainly responds to requests from research institutes, universities, policymakers, South-South and North-South networks, and civil society organizations. PCD encourages multidisciplinary approaches, encompassing economics, political science, anthropology, law, and social and gender analysis, as well as participatory/action research and other qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

International Youth Foundation
The International Youth Foundation (IYF) is working in close to 70 countries and territories to improve the conditions and prospects for young people where they live, learn, work, and play. Established in 1990 to bring worldwide resources to young people in need, IYF works with hundreds of companies, foundations, and civil society organizations to strengthen and "scale up" existing programs that are making a positive and lasting difference in young lives. Over the last 15 years, IYF and its global network of in-country Partners have helped millions of young people gain access to the life skills, education, job training and opportunities critical to their success. Identifying and Supporting "What Works" IYF is based on the premise that throughout the world there are thousands of effective programs and approaches making a profound and lasting difference in young lives. Rather than build new programs from scratch, our mission is to identify programs "that work," strengthen their impact, and expand their reach so that many more young people may benefit. All of IYF's program activity is clustered around four issue areas, which form the core thrust of IYF's global youth initiatives. These are: Education, Employability, Leadership and Engagement and Health Education and Awareness.

Human Security Network
An informal, flexible mechanism, the Human Security Network identifies concrete areas for collective action. It pursues security policies that focus on the protection and security requirement of the individual and society through promoting freedom from fear and freedom from want. The Network plays a catalytic role by bringing international attention to new and emerging issues. By applying a human security perspective to international problems, the Network aims to energize political processes aimed at preventing or solving conflicts and promoting peace and development.

The Safer Cities Programme
The Safer Cities Programme was launched in 1996 at the request of African mayors who wanted to address urban violence by developing a prevention strategy at city level. The programme supports the implementation of the Habitat Agenda, which acknowledges the responsibility of local authorities in crime prevention. Furthermore, the Programme is in line with the ECOSOC Resolution 1995/9 of 24 July 1995. The main objectives of the programme are to: (1) Build capacities at city level to adequately address urban insecurity; and thereby (2) Contribute to the establishment of a culture of prevention. The website provides information, a newsletter, tools and other resources.

Safer Cities Tools
UN-HABITAT's Safer Cities Programme has, in collaboration with its partners in the different projects and through international co-operation, developed a set of tools: 1) to help determine the extent and nature of crime, 2) to develop adequate prevention strategies and solutions based on each specific problem and, 3) to define the modalities of implementaion of the measures.

SCALE
SCALE, or System-wide Collaborative Action for Livelihoods and the Environment, is an approach for broadening the impact of development. This concept has evolved from more than a decade of work by GreenCOM in more than 30 countries to address a range of issues including: Natural resource management (coastal, forest, watershed); Biodiversity conservation; Ecotourism; Sustainable agriculture; Water and energy efficiency; Clean production; and, Solid waste management.

URBACT
URBACT is primarily focused on cities and their neighborhoods, which are facing high levels of unemployment, delinquency and poverty, and inadequate levels of public services. The URBACT network Young Citizen's Project has released a Toolkit for Youth participation in urban policies. And The URBACT network Young People from Exclusion to Inclusion has published its final results; among the 3 publications released are the Operational guidelines which are orientated towards practical usage.

World Bank World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation.
Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12 and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply reduced poverty. With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world-the largest-ever youth group in history-the report says there has never been a better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with fewer dependents because of changing demographics. However, failure to seize this opportunity to train them more effectively for the workplace, and to be active citizens, could lead to widespread disillusionment and social tensions.

Youth and Conflict: A Toolkit for Prevention. USAID, 2005.
This toolkit is part of a series that explores how development assistance can address key risk factors associated with conflict. This document (1) examines key issues related to youth participation in violence; (2) discusses lessons learned in developing programs for at-risk youth, (3) presents a range of program options, (4) includes illustrative monitoring and evaluation tools; and (5) identifies relevant USID mechanisms and partners. Together, the elements of this toolkit are designed to help raise awarenss about the linkages between young people, development aid, and conflict.

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