United Nations

Office for Disarmament Affairs
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-LiREC)
The United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific – UNRCPD, in Katmandu, Nepal
United Nations Mine Action Service  
United Nations Peace and Development Trust Fund (UNPDF)
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research ( UNIDIR )
United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
United Nations Children’s Fund ( UNICEF )
United Nations Development Fund For Women ( UNIFEM )
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization( UNESCO )
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR)
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

Related Organizations

Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

African Regional and Sub-regional Organizations

African Union (AU))
Economic Community of West African States-(ECOWAS )
Economic Community of Central African States
Southern African Development Communtiy -(SADC)
East African Community EAC
Regional Centre on Small Arms(RECSA)
International conference on the Great Lakes Region(ICGLR)
Southern African Regional Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation(SARPCCO)

Other organizations

European Union
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Organization for Migrations (IOM)

International Non-Governmental Organizations

Peace and Disarmament

International Action Network on Small Arms( IANSA)
International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL)
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
NGO Committee on Disarmament, Peace and Security
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – Reaching Critical Will
Global Security Program of the Union of Concerned Scientists
Verification Research, Training and Information Centre (VERTIC)
Come Clean – WMD Awareness Programme
Federation of American Scientists
HD – Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
Peace Action Education Fund
Women waging peace
Pearson Peacekeeping Center
International Peace Bureau
International alert
SaferWorld

Relief and Human Rights

CARE
Amnesty International
Coalition for International Justice
Handicap International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Oxfam International

Research

African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes(ACCORD)
Africa Center for Strategic Studies
Acronym Institute for Disarmament Diplomacy
Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
British American Security Information Council (BASIC)
Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflicts
Fafo Institute for Social Science
Fondation pour la Recherche Stratégique (FRS)
Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP)
Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI)
Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD)
Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security (GRIP)
Hague Appeal for Peace
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE)
Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI)
Institut de Relations Internationales et Stratégiques (IRIS)
International Crisis Group
International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
International Peace Academy
International Peace Bureau (IPB)
International Peace Research Institute (PRIO, Oslo)
International Relations and Security Network (ISN, Zurich)
Lester B. Pearson Canadian International Peacekeeping Training Centre
Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers (NISAT)
Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI, Oslo)
Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
Reaching Critical Will
Small Arms Survey (SAS)
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI, Stockholm)
United States Institute for Peace
Verification Research Training and Information Centre (VERTIC, London)
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom 

Children

Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflictt
United Nations Children’s Fund
The Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers
Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch
Defense for Children International
International Save the Children Alliance
United Nations Children’s Fund
UNICEF Information on Child Rights
Women Watch
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