Abbreviations AA Auswärtiges Amt [Federal Ministry for BMI Bundesministerium des Inneren [Federal Foreign Affairs, Germany] Ministry of the Interior, Germany] ABCC Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission ABM BMU Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Antiballistic Missile Treaty (1972) Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit [Federal ACE Army Corps of Engineers Ministry on the Environment, Nature ACP Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Germany] AD Anno domini [after Christ] BMVg Bundesministerium der Verteidigung AEC U.S. Atomic Energy Commission [Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany] AFDL Alliance of Democratic Forces for the BMZ Ministerium für wirtschaftliche Liberation of Congo - Kinshasa Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung [Federal AFES-PRESS Peace Research and European Security Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Studies, international scientific NGO Development, Germany] AFPRA African Peace Research Association BP British Petroleum AHDR Arab Human Development Report BRIC Brazil, Russia, India, China AIDS Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy AKNZ Akademie für Krisenmanagement, CADTM Comité pour l'Annulation de la Dette du Notfallplanung und Zivilschutz [German Tiers Monde, Réseau International de Lutte Academy for Crisis Management, pour l'Abolition de la Dette des Pays du Emergency Planning and Civil Defence] Sud ALBA Bolivarian Alternative from the Americas CAFTA Central American Free Trade Agreement AMIS African Union peacekeeping forces in CAN Comunidad Andina de Naciones Sudan CARICOM Caribbean Common Market AMU Arab Maghreb Union CAS Complex Adaptive Systems ANAD Accord de Non-Aggression Et d’Assistance CCP Chinese Communist Party en Matiere de Defence [Nonaggression Agreement and Assistance on Defence CD Conference on Disarmament Matters] CDM Clean Development Mechanism in the ANZUS Australian, New Zealand and US (military context of Kyoto Protocol to UNFCCC alliance) CE Council of Europe APEC Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation CEAO Communaute Economique de l’Afrique de APPRA Asian-Pacific Peace Research Association l’Ouest [Economic Community of West Africa] APSA American Political Science Association CEDHIM Centro de Estudios de la Historia de ARCHS Applied Research Centre in Human México [Centre of Mexican History] Security CENTO Central Treaty Organization ARF ASEAN Regional Forum CEPAL Comisión Económica para América Latina y ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations el Caribe [Economic Commission for Latin ASM Assembly of Social Movements in the America and the Caribbean] World Social Forum (WSF) CFE Conventional Forces Treaty in Europe ATTAC Association for the Taxation of Financial (signed on 19 November 1990) Transactions to Aid Citizens CFSP Common Foreign and Security Policy (of AU African Union the EU) AUC United Self-Defence Forces of Colombia CHAD Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs AWACS Airborne Warning and Control System Department, United Kingdom CHOD Chiefs of Defence BAKS Bundesakademie für Sicherheitspolitik [Federal College for Security Policy Studies, CHS Commission on Human Security Germany] CHT Chittagong Hill Tracts (in Bangladesh) BC Before Christ CIA Central Intelligence Agency of the United BCE Before Christian Era States of America BCPR Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery CICAD Inter-American Commission on the Control of Drug Abuse bd billion dollars CICTE Inter-American Anti-Terrorism Committee Benelux Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg CIMIC Civil-Military Cooperation BMENA Broader Middle East-North Africa Initiative 956 Abbreviations CIRDN Inter-American Committee for the DDT dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane Reduction of Natural Disasters (chemical, pesticide) CIS Commonwealth of Independent States DfID Department for International Development CLAIP Latin American Council on Peace Research (United Kingdom) CLOC Consejo Latinoamericano de DG Directorate General of the European Organizaciones Campesinas [Council of Commission Latin American Peasants’ Organizations] DGFK German Society for Peace and Conflict CNA Center for Naval Analyses Corporation Research CNN Cable News Network DIIS Danish Institute of International Studies CNPA Coordinadora Nacional Plan de Ayala Diversitas international science programme on [National Independant Peasant Movement biodiversity Plan de Ayala in Mexico] DoD US Department of Defense COB Central Obrera Boliviana [Workers’ Centre DPKO Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Bolivia] (United Nations) COM document of the European Commission DPRK Democratic People’s Republic of Korea COMECON Council for Mutual Economic Assistance DRC Democratic Republic of Congo COMESA Common Market of Eastern and Southern DSF German Foundation for Peace Research. Africa DTIB European Defence Technological and COP Conference of Parties of environmental Industrial Base agreements (e.g. of UNFCCC) COPRED Consortium on Peace Research, Education e.g. for instance and Development in North America EADI European Association of Development COPRI Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (since Research and Training Institutes 2002 part of DIIS) EADRCC Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coreper Committee of permanent representatives Coordination Centre (at the EU in Brussels) EAPC Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council COROIPAS Conferences on Research on International EBRD European Bank for Reconstruction and Peace and Security Development COSATU Congress of South African Trade Unions EC European Community COW Correlates of War Project ECA Economic Commission for Africa (UN) CPA Comprehensive Peace Agreement ECAS Economic Community of East African CPRI Canadian Peace Research Institute States CPU Civil Protection Unit, DG Environment, ECE Economic Commission for Europe (UN) European Commission ECHO European Community Humanitarian Aid CRAG Centre for Geopolitical Research and Office Analysis at Paris University ECJ European Court of Justice CRED Center for Research on the Epidemiology ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America of Disasters, Louvain, Belgium ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America CROP Council of Regional Organizations [in the and the Caribbean Pacific] ECOMOG ECOWAS Ceasefire Monitoring Group CSBMs Confidence- and Security-Building Measures ECOSOC Economic and Social Council of the United CSCAP Council for Security Cooperation in the Nations Asia-Pacific ECOWAS Economic Community of West African CSCE Conference for Security and Co-operation States in Europe ECPR The European Consortium for Political CSS critical security studies Research CSSR Czechoslovak Socialist Republic ECRE European Council for Refugees and Exiles CSUT-CB Central Socialista Única de Trabajadores, EDA European Defence Agency Bolivia [Socialist Centre for Workers in EDC European Defence Community Bolivia] EDEM European Defence Equipment Market CTBT Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty EDF European Development Fund CWC Chemical Weapons Convention EIB European Investment Bank EINSTein Enhanced ISAAC (Irreducible Semi- DAC Development Assistance Committee and Autonomous Adaptive Combat) Neural Development Co-operation Directorate of Simulation Tool OECD EMDAT The International Disaster Database of DDR Disarmament, Demobilisation and CRED in Louvain. Belgium Reintegration EMSA European Maritime Safety Agency Abbreviations 957 ENCOP Environment and Conflicts Project G3/BISA Brazil, India, South Africa (University of Zürich, Switzerland) G-7 Group of seven major industrialized END European Nuclear Disarmament countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, ENP European Neighbourhood Policy (EU) Japan, UK, US) ENVSEC Environment and Security Initiative of G-8 Group of eight major industrialized OSCE, UNDP, UNEP and NATO countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, EOLSS Encyclopaedia for Life Support System Japan, Russia, UK, US) (UNESCO) GA General Assembly of the UN EP European Parliament GAA G8 Africa Action Plan EPC European Political Cooperation GAERC Council for General Affairs and External EPR Ejército Popular Revolucionario Relations [Revolutionary Popular Army] GATS General Agreements on Trade and Services ERPI Ejército Popular Revolucionario Insurgente GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (a subgroup of ERP) GBA Global Business Associates ESCAP Economic and Social Commission for Asia GCC Gulf Cooperation Council and Pacific GDP Gross Domestic Product ESCWA Economic and Social Commission for GDR German Democratic Republic Western Asia GEC global environmental change ESDP European Security and Defence Policy (EU) GECHS Global Environmental Change and Human ESG Escola Superior de Guerra [National War Security College, Brazil] GIS geographic information system ESS European Security Strategy GMO Genetically modified organisms ESSP Earth System Science Partnership GNI Gross National Income ETA Basque terrorist group GNP Grand National Party (in Korea) etc. etcetera GNP Gross National Product EU European Union GPG Global Public Goods EUFOR European Union Force GTZ Gesellschaft für Technische EUMC European Union Military Committee Zusammenarbeit [German Agency for EUMS European Union Military Staff Technical Cooperation] EUPRA European Peace Research Association EZLN Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional HCNM OSCE’s High Commissioner on National [Zapatista Army of National Liberation] Minorities HDI Human Development Index FAO Food and Agricultural Organization, Rome HDR Human Development Report (of UNDP) FAR Freedom Army of Rwanda HESP human and environmental security and FAR Federation of Arab States peace FARC Frente Armado Revolucionario de HIV Human Immuno