Oxford Research Group is a peace and security think tank that combines political analysis with an understanding of human behavior to address complex security issues. They facilitate constructive dialogue and propose policy solutions while fostering best practices, such as casualty recording in armed conflicts. Their efforts aim to influence policy-making, the military, and humanitarian organizations, as well as to establish a network of security specialists in the global south to address challenges like climate change.

1. Oxford Research Group
What makes us different?

2. ORG is a peace and security think tank or NGO (nongovernmental organisation). Like all think-tanks we do analysis
and reports that attempts to propose new policy solutions.
We provide a meeting ground where establishment and more
radical ideas can cross-fertilise. It is about getting new and more
sustainable thinking taken up and incorporated within the
establishment.
We work to address the toughest security questions using
detailed research and drawing on deep understanding of how
human beings behave.

3. “No-one else,” says ORG’s founder Dr Scilla Elworthy, “puts such a
priority on this combination of political analysis and understanding of
human behaviour. The results are original insights into what is
possible.”
Our team combines detailed and interdisciplinary knowledge of global
security issues together with a deep understanding of political
decision-making, and many years of expertise in facilitating
constructive dialogue.
As well as being a think-tank we also foster good practice, for example,
in the recording of every casualty in armed conflicts, working with a
global network of fellow practitioners. The aim in all our work is to
push for change. Our International Practitioners Network aims to
create a set of common standards. Our legal team works on the legal
issues. All this is developed to influence policy, the military, the
judiciary and humanitarian organisations.

4. Our work on sustainable security also involves establishing a
network of security specialists in the Global South both as a
means of informing our work engaging with policy-makers and to
work with them to be heard on issues such the implications for
security policy of climate change.
We also have years of experience on fostering dialogue in
focussed and structured and empathic ways. This can range from
events focusing at fostering a culture of strategic thinking in
Government to dialogue engaging those involved in the most
difficult political disputes.