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	CIAO Focus, October 2002: NGOs
	Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are playing an increasingly prominent role throughout the world. Conflict management, environmental concerns, women's issues, democratization, human rights and the development of civil society are just a few of the areas in which NGOs are currently working. Reaffirming the enormous role being played by NGOs, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Medecins Sans Frontieres, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and Amnesty International, among other notable organizations. Often acting where states can or will not, NGOs are regularly the first on the scene. And as NGOs proliferate and mature, academics and policy makers are now examining their successes and failures, lending a more nuanced view to the study of NGOs. This month CIAO examines the complex role of NGOs in today's global affairs. From CIAO's database: The Interrelationship Between the Evolution of Civil Society and Progress in Regional Security: The Case of the Balkans Democracy Assistance and NGO Strategies in Post-Communist Societies Promise and Failure: Environmental NGOs and Palestinian-Israeli Cooperation NGOs and an Emerging Form of Peacemaking: Post-Westphalian Approaches Outside Links*: Institute of Development Studies http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/civsoc/ Johns Hopkins Center for Civil Society http://www.jhu.edu/~ccss/ Centre for the Study of Global Governance http://www.lse.ac.uk/Depts/global/index.htm The UN on NGOs and Civil Society http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/home.htm The EU on NGOs http://europa.eu.int/comm/secretariat_general/sgc/ong/en/ Nobel Peace Prize Laureates http://www.nobel.se/peace/laureates/index.html * Outside links are not maintained. For broken outside links, CIAO recommends the Way Back Machine [http://www.archive.org/].