Global Networks and Partnerships

Building on existing partnerships between Durham University, participating Departments and individual academics, DGSI is embedded in a dense network of high-profile global partnerships. Within the University, DGSI can draw on partnerships with:

• the world-renowned International Boundaries Research Unit (IBRU);
• the recently established Faith & Globalisation Programme;
• the Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies;
• the Institute for Hazard, Risk and Resilience;
• the Human Rights Centre;
• the Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage;
• the Durham Centre for Advanced Photography;
• the Law in Conflict at Durham research group.

Through Durham University, DGSI has access to the:

• Matariki Network of Universities (MNU), which includes Dartmouth College (USA), Queen's University (Canada), University of Western Australia (Australia), University of Otago (New Zealand), University of Tubingen (Germany) and Uppsala University (Sweden).
• British Universities of Iraq Consortium (BUIC)
• Association of Commonwealth Universities (520 members)
• European University Association (850 members)

Globally, DGSI can build on its staff's existing links with leading scholars and practitioners based in, among others, institutions such as:

International        

• Council of Europe (Venice Commission and Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs)
• Commonwealth Secretariat
• Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
• World Economic Forum
• NATO School (Germany)

• Processes of International Negotiation Network

United Kingdom       

• International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation, King's College London
• Centre for the Study of 'Radicalisation' & Contemporary Political Violence, Aberystwyth University
• Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford University
• London Middle East Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies
• Institute of Technology and Security, and Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), Dartmouth College
• Chatham House

• UK Land Warfare Centre 

United States

• United States Naval War College
• United States Institute of Peace
• National Defense University, Washington, DC
• School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

• Penn Programme in Ethnic Conflict, University of Pennsylvania 

European Union

• George C. Marshall European Center for Security Policy (Germany/US)
• Bertelsmann Foundation (Germany)
• EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris
• International Institute of Humanitarian Law (Italy)
• Netherlands Institute of International Relations, Clingendael
• Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces
• Geneva Centre for Security Policy

• Swedish National Defence College

Middle East and Asia

• Jordan Institute of Diplomacy
• Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research
• Gulf Research Centre, Dubai
• Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi
• Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, Islamabad.