International Crisis Group

EU Legislative Interests

Crisis Group monitors EU and member state policies toward countries and conflicts covered by Crisis Group. Crisis Group also monitors the development of EU strategies and policy frameworks related to the prevention of conflict and crisis management, such as the EU’s Integrated Approach to External Conflicts and Crises, the European Peace Facility, the EU’s Security Strategy, the EU’s Integrated Approach to Fragility, the EU’s Enlargement Policy, as well as European Commission financial instruments and development cooperation policy, including the Multiannual Financial Framework, among others. Crisis Group regularly engages with EU officials across EU institutions, briefing them on developments on the ground and providing advice at the EU's request.

Communication Activities

Crisis Group publishes comprehensive reports and timely commentaries to inform the EU decision making and shape the European public debate on how to limit threats to peace and security. Crisis Group works and engages with heads of government, policymakers, media, civil society, and conflict actors themselves to sound the alarm of impending conflict and to open paths to peace. Between January 2023 and December 2025, Crisis Group has been implementing the project "Field-based Conflict Analysis, Early Warning, and Policy Advice to strengthen the EU’s Response to Conflicts and Crises” , awarded by the European Union for a duration of three years, under the European Union’s’s Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation instrument (NDICI). This project aims to support the EU to better act, alone or with others, to prevent the emergence, re-emergence or escalation of violent conflict around the world, and improve its responses to crises and violent conflicts, establishing conditions for long-term peace and security. The project covers countries or situations of potential or actual conflict, covered by Crisis Group’s global operations, while also noting the EU priorities. In this framework, Crisis Group produces reports and written analysis, including an annual early warning Watch List, which is presented at our flagship Watch List Launch event once a year. In addition, Crisis Group also organizes roundtables and conferences, early warning advocacy meetings and calls, and policy dialogues. Between 2021 and 2024, Crisis Group implemented a project under the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa, focused on the Sahel and Lake Chad Basin. The objective of the project is to improve strategic decision-making, programme design and implementation processes aimed at addressing insecurity in West Africa by the EU and Member States, based upon in-country research and independent analysis and policy recommendations. In this context, Crisis Group produced high-quality, field-based reports and publications, and provided conflict and context analysis in briefings with the EU.

Interests Represented

Does not represent commercial interests

Member Of

Crisis Group is a member of the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO). A platform of European NGOs, networks of NGOs and think tanks active in the field of peacebuilding, who share an interest in promoting sustainable peacebuilding policies among decision-makers in the European Union: http://www.eplo.org. Crisis Group is part of the network of Crisis Action, an international, non-profit organisation which aims to help avert conflicts, prevent human rights abuses and ensure governments fulfill their obligations to protect civilians. Crisis Action operates in a flexible manner with network organizations choosing to engage in temporary "opt-in" alliances on specific crises: http://crisisaction.org.

Organisation Members

We are an independent non-governmental organisation and as such we do not have any external members.