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Asia program
Central Asia
From offices in Osh in Kyrgyzstan and Dushanbe in Tajikistan, ICG covers the five Central Asian states - Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - focusing on the region’s main security challenges: border and resource disputes, drugs, corruption and economic problems, extremism and heavy-handed repression of opponents.
Indonesia
ICG’s Jakarta-based team reports and recommends policy on the country’s political developments, the development of regional autonomy, separatist struggles in Aceh and Irian Jaya, communal violence and the role of radical Islam with a particular focus on Jemaah Islamiyah.
Myanmar
ICG work in Myanmar has focused on the military government, the opposition, ethnic minorities and the role of the international community in encouraging a transition to democracy.
North Korea
Time is slipping away for a peaceful resolution of the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula. Effective diplomacy, vigorously pursued and delayed no longer, is the only way of peacefully resolving the contemporary world’s most serious security dilemma. ICG reports on a phased negotiation strategy for dealing with North Korea.
South Asia
ICG addresses security and stability issues and political transition in Afghanistan from its office in Kabul, prospects for stability in Pakistan from its regional office in Islamabad as well as the situation in Kashmir and factors that foster extremism across the region. From its office in Kathmandu, ICG has been analysing the conflict in Nepal between the Maoists and the Royal government.
Taiwan Strait
ICG has produced a series of studies on emerging influences on the prospects for renewed confrontation in the Taiwan Strait. There have been important signs of detente, but no resolution of the underlying disagreement between China and Taiwan. Regular reports of improvements in military readiness in the Taiwan Strait have provided some cause for concern, but there are powerful constraints on any resort to lethal force. The has paid considerable attention to the domestic political and institutional influences shaping the positions of the key actors.
October 2003
ICG's Asia program is co-ordinated out of Brussels. For more information, including the text of ICG reports and briefings, please see the related project pages (links above).
| Recent reports & briefings |
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 | Joint Statement by
The International Crisis Group, Care International, and the International Rescue Committee on
The Expansion of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan,
briefing, 31 October 2003 |
| Youth in Central Asia: Losing the New Generation,
report, 31 October 2003 |
| Nepal: Back to the Gun,
briefing, 22 October 2003 |
| Disarmament and Reintegration in Afghanistan,
report, 30 September 2003 |
| Peacebuilding in Afghanistan,
report, 29 September 2003 |
| Jemaah Islamiyah in South East Asia: Damaged but Still Dangerous,
report, 26 August 2003 |
| Afghanistan: The Problem of Pashtun Alienation,
report, 05 August 2003 |
| North Korea: A Phased Negotiation Strategy,
report, 01 August 2003 |
| Aceh: How Not to Win Hearts and Minds,
briefing, 23 July 2003 |
| Indonesia: Managing Decentralisation and Conflict in South Sulawesi,
report, 18 July 2003 |
| Central Asia: Islam and the State,
report, 10 July 2003 |
| Radical Islam in Central Asia: Responding to Hizb ut-Tahrir,
report, 30 June 2003 |
| Nepal: Obstacles to Peace,
report, 17 June 2003 |
| Afghanistan’s Flawed Constitutional Process,
report, 12 June 2003 |
| Taiwan Strait III: The Chance of Peace,
report, 06 June 2003 |
| Taiwan Strait II: The Risk of War,
report, 06 June 2003 |
| Taiwan Strait I: What's Left of 'One China'?,
report, 06 June 2003 |
| Aceh: Why The Military Option Still Won't Work,
briefing, 09 May 2003 |
| Myanmar Backgrounder: Ethnic Minority Politics,
report, 07 May 2003 |
| Central Asia: Last Chance for Change,
briefing, 29 April 2003 |
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