CIC Co-Director Bruce Jones said that the grant would enable the Center to deepen its work on multilateral security institutions in a time of turbulence.
New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC) has received a $1.2 million two-year grant from the Ford Foundation$1 million to strengthen the Center’s core activities and $200,000 for the Center’s program on nuclear proliferation.
CIC Co-Director Bruce Jones said that the grant would enable the Center to deepen its work on multilateral security institutions in a time of turbulence.
“There is no more urgent challenge facing us today than revitalizing international cooperation to manage collective security threats,” he said.
Jones also stressed the urgency of developing new policy options for re-energizing moribund negotiations on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Center, he observed, was uniquely well placed to work with the United Nations, reform minded governments, and the academic community on this critical challenge.
Reflecting on the Center’s ongoing program on “Peacebuilding as Statebuilding”, undertaken in cooperation with the International Peace Academy, CIC Director of Studies Barnett R. Rubin welcomed the Foundation grant, noting that the time was particularly opportune to assist governments and international institutions in shaping effective policy for post-conflict operations.
“The establishment of the Peacebuilding Commission at the UN reaffirms the need for effective post-conflict operations,” said Rubin, an expert on Afghanistan. “Independent research on critical challenges - including placing an emphasis on the building of effective state institutions, and the financing of post-conflict recovery - can help ensure that the UN assists countries in making a definitive recovery from conflict.”
For further information on CIC, go to www.cic.nyu.edu.