Human Security and Youth Inclusion

Strategies employed in conflict zones in recent years have failed to stop a steady flow of young recruits to the ranks of insurgent groups. To prevent the process of recruitment and radicalisation, it is crucial to intervene at the earliest possible stage. Addressing the grievances and needs of the “Angry Young Men” is a means of early intervention to avoid radicalisation.

Education and Employment

The ICOS initiative on Education and Employment aims to identify ongoing local challenges of a rapidly changing society and provide research, advocacy and innovative policy analysis to encourage pragmatic responses and cost-effective long-term solutions.

Security and Citizenship The ICOS Security and Citizenship programme combines innovative research and policy analysis to promote pragmatic responses to today's most pressing social challenges. ICOS aims to promote the values of citizenship and empowerment in communities at the grassroots level: processes of social transformation are achieved through multi-sector policy initiatives and joint responsibility. ICOS supports communities to become safer, paving the way for social and economic development.

Global Food Security

In collaboration with the Sir Ratan Tata Trust and CINI, ICOS is developing a new project, The Global Food Security Initiative, examining the intersections between food security, development, and state security. The project currently has its focus on India and Brazil, as two countries that are widely affected by these issues.

Rome Consensus

The Rome Consensus commits 121 National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent from Africa, Asia, the Americas, the Middle East and Europe to promote and implement humanitarian approaches to drug use. The Rome Consensus aims to bring drugs and drug use to the forefront of social concerns, focusing drug response formulation and implementation on a public health approach.