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href=\"https:\/\/www.acleddata.com\/\">ACLED Database<\/a><\/p><p>The Armed Conflict Location &amp; Event Data Project (ACLED) is a disaggregated conflict analysis and crisis mapping project. ACLED is the highest quality, most widely used, real time data and analysis source on political violence and protest in the developing world<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apec.org\/\">Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apec.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0(APEC)<\/a><\/p><p>The idea of\u00a0APEC\u00a0was firstly publicly broached by former Prime Minister of Australia Bob\u00a0Hawke\u00a0during a speech in Seoul, Korea, on 31\u00a0January 1989. Ten months later, 12 Asia-Pacific economies met in Canberra, Australia, to establish\u00a0APEC. The founding members were Australia; Brunei\u00a0Darussalam; Canada; Indonesia; Japan; Korea; Malaysia; New Zealand; the Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; and the United States.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/asean.org\/\">Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)<\/a><\/p><p>The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the\u00a0ASEAN Declaration\u00a0(Bangkok Declaration) by the Founding Fathers of ASEAN, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/\">Asia Times<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>Asia Times Holdings Limited is a media conglomerate with operations on several continents, including the\u00a0<em>Asia Times<\/em>, the English-language publication launched in 1995. Since its early days in Bangkok, Asia Times has been among the most credible names in news in the world\u2019s most populous region. What began as a printed broadsheet distributed continent-wide, in 1998 became the world\u2019s first fully digital news publication.<a href=\"http:\/\/infobrics.org\/\">\u200b<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>The Diplomat\u00a0is the premier international current-affairs magazine for the Asia-Pacific region.\u00a0Since its launch in 2002, The Diplomat has been\u00a0dedicated to quality analysis and commentary on events occurring in Asia and around the world.\u00a0<em>The Diplomat<\/em>\u00a0reaches an influential audience of commentators, policymakers and academics with its in-depth treatment of regional issues.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/\">The Economist<\/a><\/p><p><em>The Economist\u00a0<\/em>was established in 1843 by James Wilson, a\u00a0hatmaker\u00a0from the small Scottish town of\u00a0Hawick, to campaign against the protectionist Corn Laws. The tariffs were repealed in 1846 but the newspaper lived on as \u201ca political, literary, and general newspaper\u201d, never abandoning its belief in free trade, internationalism and minimum interference by government, especially in the affairs of the market. (It did, however, abandon the Oxford comma.)<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-ir.info\/\">E-International Relations<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>E-International Relations\u00a0is the world\u2019s leading open access website for students and scholars of international politics, featuring high quality scholarly content and student-facing resources. The website was established in November 2007, and is\u00a0recommended\u00a0by leading academics and practitioners from around the world. We reach over 3 million unique readers per year.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eiu.com\/topic\/democracy-index\">EIU Democracy Index<\/a><\/p><p>The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism; civil liberties; the functioning of government; political participation; and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy; flawed democracy; hybrid regime; and authoritarian regime.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/\">Foreign Policy<\/a><\/p><p>Over the course of almost half a century of award-winning journalism, design, and the presentation of\u00a0important new ideas from the world\u2019s leading thinkers, Foreign Policy has established itself at the forefront of media organizations devoted to the coverage of global affairs.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalr2p.org\/about_r2p\">Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect<\/a><\/p><p>The Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect was established in February 2008 to promote universal acceptance and effective operational implementation of the norm of the &#8220;Responsibility to Protect&#8221; populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ictj.org\/\">The International Center for Transitional Justice<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>The International Center for Transitional Justice works for justice in countries that have endured massive human rights abuses under repression and in conflict. We work with victims, civil society groups, national and international organizations to ensure redress for victims and to help prevent atrocities from happening again.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.responsibilitytoprotect.org\/\">International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect<\/a><\/p><p>The\u00a0International Coalition For The Responsibility To Protect\u00a0(ICRtoP) brings together NGOs from all regions of the world to strengthen normative consensus for RtoP, further the understanding of the norm, push for strengthened capacities to prevent and halt genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity and mobilize NGOs to push for action to save lives in RtoP country-specific situations.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.icpsr.umich.edu\/icpsrweb\/ICPSR\/\">\u200b<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idea.int\/data-tools\/data\/direct-democracy\">International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IIDEA)<\/a><\/p><p>We advance\u00a0democracy worldwide, as a universal human aspiration and an enabler of sustainable development, through support to the building, strengthening and safeguarding of democratic political institutions and processes at all levels.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilo.org\/global\/lang--en\/index.htm\">International Labour Organization (ILO)<\/a><\/p><p>The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of\u00a0187 member States\u00a0, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/data.imf.org\/?sk=388DFA60-1D26-4ADE-B505-A05A558D9A42\">International Monetary Fund (IMF)<\/a><\/p><p>The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 189 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. Created in 1945, the IMF is governed by and accountable to the 189 countries that make up its near-global membership.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iom.int\/\">International Organization of Migration (IOM)<\/a><\/p><p>Established in 1951, IOM is the leading inter-governmental organization in the field of migration and works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rescue.org\/\">International Rescue Committee (IRC)<\/a><\/p><p>The International Rescue Committee responds to the world\u2019s worst humanitarian crises and helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. In more than 40 countries and in 25 U.S. cities, our dedicated teams provide clean water, shelter, health care, education and empowerment support to refugees and displaced people.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/justiceinconflict.org\/\">Justice in conflict<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>This blog is about two things: competing conceptions and ideas of justice as well as the challenges of pursuing justice in conflict. Justice no longer follows in the wake of peace. It is pursued while violent political conflicts are ongoing in places like Darfur, Sierra Leone and Yugoslavia. This presents many challenges for achieving international criminal justice. At the same time, there are conflicting ideas of what justice is. Justice is not a monolithic entity as much as a moving target. One\u2019s idea of justice is unlikely to be that of another.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nber.org\/data_index.html\/\">The National Bureau of Economic Research<\/a><\/p><p>Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/mnoal.org\/\">Non-Alignment Movement (NAM)<\/a><\/p><p>The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the biggest forum for political coordination and consultation after and within the United Nations, composed by 120 Member States from the developing world. There are also 17 countries and 10 International Organizations that hold an Observer status.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/en\/\">openDemocracy<\/a><\/p><p>openDemocracy is an independent global media platform publishing up to 60 articles a week and attracting over 8 million visits per year. Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, openDemocracy seeks to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world. With human rights as our central guiding focus, we ask tough questions about freedom, justice and democracy.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/\">Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)<\/a><\/p><p>The OECD provides a forum in which governments can work together to share experiences and seek solutions to common problems. We work with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change. We measure productivity and global flows of trade and investment. We analyse and compare data to predict future trends. We set international standards on a wide range of things,\u00a0from agriculture and tax to the safety of chemicals.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oefresearch.org\/\">OEF Research \u2013 Informing Change for Peace<\/a><\/p><p>OEF Research believes that policy and practice reflect the quality of available information.\u00a0 We promote empirically-informed research developed using methodologically rigorous approaches as a tool for policy making in peace, security, and good governance. We believe in analyzing evidence using both quantitative and qualitative best practices.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oic-oci.org\/home\/?lan=en\">Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)<\/a><\/p><p>The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations with a membership of 57 states spread over four continents. The Organization is the collective voice of the Muslim world. It endeavours to safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony among various people of the world.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/about\">Our World in Data<\/a><\/p><p>On the closely integrated website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sdg-tracker.org\/\">SDG-Tracker.org<\/a>\u00a0we present the data and research on the UN\u2019s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In 2015, all countries in the world signed up to reach the SDGs by 2030. We built this site to track progress towards them, allowing all of us to hold governments to account. Our\u00a0<em>SDG-Tracker<\/em>\u00a0is the only publication that presents all the latest available data on the 232 SDG-Indicators with which the 17 Goals are assessed.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemicpeace.org\/polityproject.html\">The Polity (IV)<\/a><\/p><p>The Polity IV dataset covers all major, independent states in the global system over the period 1800-2017 (i.e., states with a total population of 500,000 or more in the most recent year; currently 167 countries). With the support of the Political Instability Task Force, the Polity IV Project has been transformed into a living data collection effort, meaning that it constantly monitors regime changes in all major countries and provides annual assessments of regime authority characteristics, changes and data updates.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/datacentre2.chass.utoronto.ca\/pwt\/\">Penn World Table 6.3<\/a><\/p><p>The Penn World Table\u00a0provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 189 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2007. The European Union or the OECD provide more detailed purchasing power and real product estimates for their countries and the World Bank makes current price estimates for most PWT countries at the GDP level.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulhensel.org\/data.html\">Paul Hensel\u2019s International Relations Data Site<\/a><\/p><p>This site includes seven pages of links to on-line data resources for the serious international relations scholar, as well as the introduction page that you are currently reading. These pages are meant to include the most useful data sources on processes of international conflict and cooperation, as well as data covering international economic, environmental, political, and social data and data on similar topics for the United States.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/politicalviolenceataglance.org\/\">Political Violence at a Glance<\/a><\/p><p>Analysis comes from a distinguished team of experts from universities including American University, BYU, Columbia, Denver, Georgetown, Maryland, Michigan, Princeton, Tufts, UCLA, UCSD, Wisconsin, and Yale. The goal is to anticipate the questions you have about violence happening around the world and to offer you simple, straight-forward analysis before anyone else does. No jargon. No lingo. Just insightful content.<a href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/\">\u200b<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/eng.sectsco.org\/\">Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)<\/a><\/p><p>The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) is a permanent intergovernmental international organization, the creation of\u00a0which was announced on\u00a015 June 2001 in\u00a0Shanghai (China) by\u00a0the Republic of\u00a0Kazakhstan, the People&#8217;s Republic of\u00a0China, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, the Republic of\u00a0Tajikistan, and the Republic of\u00a0Uzbekistan. It was preceded by\u00a0the Shanghai Five mechanism.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saferworld.org.uk\/\">Saferworld<\/a><\/p><p>Saferworld has been preventing violent conflict and building safer lives for over 28 years.Launched in Bristol, UK, in 1989, Saferworld began life as a politically-independent research organization. In the 1990s we pioneered work for more effective arms controls, and we also began examining the broader elements underlying conflict \u2013 such as governance, power, marginalization, access to resources and development. Our guiding principle \u2013 which remains to this day \u2013 was that people should be at the heart of all responses to conflict.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sipri.org\/databases\">\u200b<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/PublicationsResources\/Pages\/databases.aspx\">UN Human Rights Database<\/a><\/p><p>The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UN Human Rights) Database provide plenty of resources on global human rights reports and activities.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/humansecurity\/what-is-human-security\/\">UN Human Security<\/a><\/p><p>The human security approach is a proven analytical and planning framework that supports more comprehensive and preventive responses by the United Nations, cutting across sectors, developing contextually relevant solutions, and adopting partnerships to help realise a world free from fear, want and indignity.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/\">UNICEF<\/a><\/p><p>UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to save children\u2019s lives, to defend their rights, and to help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.\u00a0And we never give up.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/publications\/the-world-factbook\/\">The World Factbook<\/a><\/p><p>The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\">World Health Organization<\/a><\/p><p>WHO began when our Constitution came into force on 7 April 1948 \u2013 a date we now celebrate every year as World Health Day. We are now more than 7000 people from more than 150 countries working in 150 country offices, in 6 regional offices and at our headquarters in Geneva.<\/p><p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wto.org\/\">World Trade Organization<\/a><\/p><p>There are a number of ways of looking at the World Trade Organization. It is an organization for trade opening. It is a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements. It is a place for them to settle trade disputes. It operates a system of trade rules. Essentially, the WTO is a place where member governments try to sort out the trade problems they face with each other.\u00a0<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvi.org\/disaster-management\/children-conflict\">World Vision International<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>As a child-focused agency committed to reaching the world\u2019s most vulnerable children, we asked ourselves two questions:\u00a0Where in the world is the worst place for children to grow up?\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0what should we do in these places to impact children more beneficially?<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.v-dem.net\/en\/\">Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)<\/a><\/p><p>Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. We provide a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule that goes beyond the simple presence of elections. The V-Dem project distinguishes between five high-level principles of democracy: electoral, liberal, participatory, deliberative, and egalitarian, and collects data to measure these principles.\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e5eb0eb e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"e5eb0eb\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-38a599b e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"38a599b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_has_onepagescroll_dot&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf7662b elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"cf7662b\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Professional Bodies<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e070d3f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"e070d3f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;ekit_we_effect_on&quot;:&quot;none&quot;}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aei.um.edu.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asia-Europe Institute, University of Malaya (AEI-UM)<\/a><\/p><p>The Asia-Europe Institute has successfully established itself as one of Southeast Asia\u2019s leading institutions for social science postgraduate research and teaching. Established under the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) process with a philosophy of enhancing Asia-Europe relations, AEI aims to foster exchange of students and scholars with a view to developing better understanding of the cultures, histories, politics, institutions, economics, business and legal practices of both regions. The origins of AEI can be traced back to the idea of establishing closer higher education linkages between Asia and Europe under the provisions of the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) initiative in 1996.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asli.com.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asian Strategy &amp; Leadership Institute (ASLI)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p><p>Since its inception in 1993, ASLI has been the definitive voice of\u00a0strategy and leadership in the country, having provided trusted\u00a0insights to governments, businesses and the diplomatic community as\u00a0well as promoting dialogues to understand and better relations amongst Government, Business and Civil Society in ASEAN as well as\u00a0the wider Asia-Pacific region. ASLI provides strategic analysis and\u00a0advice on critical issues through conferences, policy roundtables and\u00a0strategic forums by gathering industry thought leaders together to\u00a0exchange views, develop policy options and key recommendation.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpps.org.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Public Policy Studies (CPPS)<\/a><\/p><p>CPPS is an independent and non-partisan public policy institute that aims at fostering open-minded dialogue, enlightened leadership and better governance. CPPS upholds an independent, non-partisan and non-racial stance in its research and other policy-oriented activities.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.utar.edu.my\/cis\/index.jsp?fcatid=28963&amp;fcontentid=134657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for International Studies (CIS-UTAR)<\/a><\/p><p>To promote understanding among the Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) campus community and society-at-large of critical contemporary international issues affecting the nation, the region and the world; and to promote constructive response to the problems and challenges.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cariasean.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CIMB ASEAN Research Institute<\/a><\/p><p>CARI is an independent research institute that aims to disseminate interdisciplinary informationand research on ASEAN regionalism.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.idfr.gov.my\/index.php\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations (IDFR)<\/a><\/p><p>The Institute of Diplomacy and Foreign Relations, also known as IDFR, was established on 1 July 1991 under the Prime Minister\u2019s Department following a Cabinet decision dated 6 March 1991. It was officially launched that same year on 12 August by the then Prime Minister Dato\u2019 Seri Dr. Mahathir Mohamad. In March 2004, IDFR officially became part of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia. Located in the heart of Kuala Lumpur, IDFR is housed in the former building of the\u00a0Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukm.my\/ikmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Malaysia and International Studies (IKMAS)<\/a><\/p><p>The Institute of Malaysian and International Studies (IKMAS) was established on 1 April 1995 as a centre for research in Social Sciences at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). On 15 August 2013, the Institute was merged with the Institute of Occidental Studies (IKON) and the Institute of West Asian Studies (IKRAB). Following the restructuring, the IKMAS now focuses on Malaysian and International Studies.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.isis.org.my\/index.php\/aboutus\/about-isis\/introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS)<\/a><\/p><p>The Institute of Strategic and International Studies (ISIS) was established on 8 April 1983 as an autonomous, not-for-profit research organization. ISIS Malaysia has a diverse research focus which includes economics, foreign policy, security studies, nation-building, social policy, technology, innovation and environmental studies.\u00a0 It also undertakes research collaboration with national and international organizations in important areas such as national development and international affairs.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/irfront.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Islamic Renaissance Front\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p>Based in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia, the Islamic Renaissance Front (IRF) is an intellectual movement and think tank focused on youth empowerment and the promotion of Muslim intellectual discourse. Officially launched by Tariq Ramadan on the 12th of December 2009, IRF has taken great strides to engage in discussions, in Malaysia and beyond, to promote \u00a0democracy, liberty and social.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jci.edu.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia (JCI)<\/a><\/p><p>The Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia is an independent public policy think-tank, based at Sunway University on the outskirts of the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur. The Institute\u2019s research programme is grouped around three core disciplines: economic development, governance and social progress, including education. Its mission is to develop solutions to some of the region\u2019s most pressing development problems.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeffreysachs.center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Sachs Centre on Sustainable Development<\/a><\/p><p>The Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development is borne out of a partnership between the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Association (SDSN); a strategic collaboration on sustainable development as the United Nations enters the first year of implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. Built on the Millennium Development Goals set previously by the United Nations, the 17 goals encompass a sweeping agenda to free the human race from poverty, realize human rights and gender equality as well as to heal and secure our world. These goals were introduced at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015 to stimulate global action over the next 15 years.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.krinstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Khazanah Research Institute<\/a><\/p><p>The Khazanah Research Institute carries out research on the pressing issues of the nation. We then recommend policies to improve the well-being of Malaysians based on that research.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/midas.mod.gov.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (MiDAS)<\/a><\/p><p>The complex security environment with multitude of internal and external issues requires the Ministry to have a professional institution which could generate thinking and knowledge sharing based on analytical research and study on defence and security issues. Hence, a Ministry of Defence Brain Storming Workshop on 7 July 2009 decided the need for the Ministry to establish a professional institute named Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (MiDAS).<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideas.org.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysia Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS)<\/a><\/p><p>The Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (IDEAS) is a nonprofit research institute based in Malaysia dedicated to promoting solutions to public policy challenges.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/penanginstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Penang Institute<\/a><\/p><p>Penang Institute is one of Malaysia\u2019s major think tank. Funded by the Penang state government, it was established in 1997 (as SERI, the Socio-economic and Environmental Research Institute), and underwent a name change in 2011 as part of a rebranding exercise to reflect the heightened ambitions of the state to secure Penang\u2019s reputation as an intellectual hub and as the culture capital of the country, and to enhance Penang\u2019s reputation in Asean and beyond.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.searcct.gov.my\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT)<\/a><\/p><p>The Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter-Terrorism (SEARCCT) was officially launched on 1 July 2003 by the then Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malaysia, the Honourable Tan Sri Syed Hamid Albar.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-289323d e-con-full e-flex 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