The first in FICS' Shifting the Momentum series for climate philanthropy: a primer setting out how shrinking civic space is undermining effective climate action, sharing the strategies donors are using to counter this trend, and highlighting some of the excellent work being done by civil society across the globe.
New European Democracy Hub report highlighting new approaches to defending global civil society features FICS analysis on narrative change.
We are delighted to share 'The voice of the fourth pillar: How Security Council discourse drove counter-terrorism expansion at the UN', a new discussion paper published by Saferworld and supported by FICS’ Civic Futures initiative.
We are proud to share the Hive’s report from this experimental round of grants: Countering extreme right narratives across movements: learning from experimentation.
As the climate emergency escalates, so are efforts to securitize climate change.
In September 2023 Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) commissioned FICS to map existing research on discrimination, xenophobia and other forms of identity-based attacks and how these are increasingly deployed by authoritarian and populist governments to undermine civic space and democratic accountability.
Months after the 9/11 attacks, Recommendation 8 (R8) was added to the Financial Action Task Force's mandate under the unevidenced assumption that not-for-profits (NPOs) were “particularly vulnerable” to terrorism financing.
The Global Narrative Hive (the Hive), a new network which works to connect and grow the global ecosystem of those who are using narratives to advance their visions of a more just world.
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation has published a new report which identifies numerous threats to the vital elements of UK democracy and civic space.
Building on Rethinking Civic Space, the major review published by FICS in 2020, this month we released The Security Playbook 101 a new paper that demonstrates the expansion and abuse of security powers, tools, and discourse by States in ways that criminalise and restrict activists. The playbook also offers solutions for how philanthropy can support civil society to disrupt, reform and transform this trend.