International Contact Group
International Contact Groups are "informal, non-permanent international bodies that are created ad hoc, with the purpose of coordinating international actors in their aim of managing a peace and security crisis in a specific state or region. They are founded and formed out of by states and/or international organizations/regional organizations. They do not have own administrative structures, but are official announced and meet periodically." Since 1977, at least 27 ICGs have been formed.
Examples of such groups include:
- OSCE Minsk Group
- Western Contact Group, Namibia, 1977
- Contact Group
- International Contact Group
- International Contact Group on Liberia
- International Contact Group for Libya
- International Contact Group on the Mano River Basin
- Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia
- Friends of Syria Group, an International Contact group for Syria
- International Somalia Contact Group
- International Contact Group, part of the Framework Agreement on the Bangsamoro for the Southern Philippines Peace Process
- International Contact Group on Venezuela
Literature
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- M.P. Karns, ‘,’in: International Organization 41, no. 1 : 93–123
- C. Schwegmann,‘Modern Concert Diplomacy: The Contact Group and the G7/8 in Crisis Management,’ in: Guiding Global Order: G8 Governance in the Twentyfirst Century, ed. J.J. Kirton, J.P. Daniels, and A. Freytag, 93–121.
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