ICG Annual Report, 1998: Review

ICG in 1997: the year in review

Nicholas Hinton, ICG's first president, suffers a heart attack and dies, while visiting ICG's project in Bosnia.
An ICG field assessment mission visits Kinshasa, Kigali, Bujumbura and Nairobi.
An ICG report is released on the future status of the contested north Bosnian town of Brcko: Brcko Arbitration: Proposal for Peace, 20 January 1997.

ICG launches an appeal to raise funds for a Nicholas Hinton Research Fellowship to commemorate the late president.
ICG hosts two high-level policy symposiums, in Brussels and Washington DC, on the future of central Africa; and publishes its first major field report on the region: Zaire and the Great Lakes, 14 February 1997.
Two ICG reports on Bosnia released: Grave Situation in Mostar: Robust Response Required, 13 February 1997; and State Succession to the Immovable Assets of Former Yugoslavia, 20 February 1997.

ICG's Executive Committee meets in Beirut and authorises the drawing up of plans for new ICG field projects in central Africa and the southern Balkans.
A major ICG policy report is released on the independent media in Bosnia: Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina: How International Support Can Be More Effective, 14 March 1997.

In Sierra Leone, the ICG-backed Campaign for Good Governance conducts a series of national workshops and radio broadcasts on citizens' rights and the need to counter government corruption.
An ICG labour market specialist conducts field research for a major new study of employment and the training system in Sierra Leone.
ICG submits a paper to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) setting out the case for a tougher international response to events in Nigeria.
An ICG report is released on Sierra Leone's fragile recovery: Sierra Leone, Situation Analysis, April 1997.

ICG's newsletter, Crisisbrief is launched. The first issue is circulated to 4,000 policy-makers and advisers world-wide and posted on ICG's web site, CrisisWeb.
The ICG Board meets in Paris and approves an expansion of ICG's field activities into the southern Balkans and central Africa.
A major ICG report is released on the international effort to encourage refugees and internally displaced persons to return to their homes in Bosnia: Going Nowhere Fast: Refugees and Displaced Persons in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1 May 1997.

Belgian Senator Alain Destexhe is chosen as ICG's new president.
An ICG report is released on the increase in house burnings in Bosnia: House Burnings: Obstruction of the Right to Return to Drvar, 16 June 1997.

ICG's new headquarters opens in Brussels.
An ICG delegation addresses a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group.
An ICG report on the landmines crisis in Bosnia is released: Ridding Bosnia of Landmines: the Urgent Need for a Sustainable Policy, 18 July 1997.

ICG's new southern Balkans project is launched with the appointment of field correspondents in Albania, Macedonia and Kosovo.

ICG's web site wins site of the week award in Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper.
An ICG report on preparations for the municipal elections in Bosnia is released: Beyond Ballot Boxes. Municipal Elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 10 September 1997.

A new ICG office opens in Washington DC: George Biddle is appointed to head up ICG's operations in the United States.
ICG's first major assessment report on Macedonia is released: Macedonia Report - The Politics of Ethnic Conflict, 30 October 1997.

The ICG Board meets in Amsterdam and approves plans for the further expansion of ICG field activities in Albania, Algeria, Cambodia and Yugoslavia.
Six-monthly ICG Review of the Dayton Peace Process released: Dayton - Two Years On.

ICG publishes a paper on the state of the peace process in Bosnia with recommendations to governments participating in the Peace Implementation Council meeting in Bonn: Pushing Forward the Peace Process in Bosnia, 3 December 1997.
A major ICG report on future security needs in Bosnia is released; A Peace or Just a Ceasefire? The Military Equation in Post-Dayton Bosnia, 15 December 1997.
ICG's first assessment report on Cambodia is released: Putting Cambodian Democracy Back on Track, 31 December 1997.

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