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values of peace and social justice, ORG is an independent, secular group without affiliation to any religious or political group. ORG is not a pacifist group in that it recognises that there are legitimate roles and uses for armed forces. Rather, it defines its mission as to enlarge the space for
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was established in January 2018, based around the Remote Control project of the Network for Social Change, which had been hosted by ORG since 2013. It analyses shifts in military engagements, focusing on Western states’ increasing focus on working through local and regional partner militaries in
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was developed as a programme of ORG between 2007 and 2014. It aimed to enhance the technical, legal and institutional capacity, as well as the political will, for every single casualty of armed conflict throughout the world to be recorded. It became a separate NGO in October 2014.
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programme. It deployed a unique methodology to build the capacity of local partners to engage in strategic dialogue towards lasting political settlements. Formerly the Middle East Programme, it has brokered a series of
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aimed to highlight the limitations of orthodox security policy that seeks to contain the symptoms of deeper conflict and to develop policy alternatives that address such underlying drivers as
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and other states. The programme uses a strategic thinking methodology based in ‘radical disagreement’ theory to develop strategies for alternative routes to peaceful co-existence.
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and a group of academics and activists with an interest in the psychological dimensions of international security decision-making. While established in sympathy with
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In 2020 ORG announced that due to funding issues it would cease operations at the end of the year. It would re-home some of its programmes elsewhere.
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In 2006 ORG relocated from Oxfordshire to London. Since 2001, it has focused particularly on analysing the causes, consequences and character of the
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was established in early 2017 to focus on the discreet high-level dialogues that ORG had facilitated over the previous 15 years under
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organisations in a number of fragile or conflict-affected states, and became a separate organisation in the following year.
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non-military alternatives to prevent and manage conflict. It was registered as a charity in England and Wales in 1988.
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in 2003 for ORG's work on the promotion of disarmament and non-violent methods for resolving conflict.
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ORG had three thematic programmes and has served as host or incubator for several other projects.
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Initially, the Group focused on dialogue between British nuclear decision-makers and
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in 1988, 1989 and 1991. In the 1990s, ORG fostered security dialogue between the
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Transforming Violent Conflict: Radical Disagreement, Dialogue and Survival
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was developed within ORG in 2002 as a project developing links to local
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Foreign policy and strategy think tanks based in the United Kingdom
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