The Transnational Institute (TNI), is an international non-profit research and advocacy

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that was founded in 1974,

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. According to their website, the organization promotes a "... just, democratic and sustainable world."

History

TNI was founded in 1974 in Amsterdam by Eqbal Ahmad, who was the organization's first director. Initially it operated as an international arm of the

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. In 1976 the director of the institute (

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) was assassinated by the Chilean secret police as ordered by

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. Pauline Tiffen is chair of the supervisory board of the TNI. The activist Susan George is president of the TNI. The members of the institute are involved in the civil society and the associative life of their respective countries. Based in Amsterdam, the permanent team of TNI consisted of twenty nine people in 2021.

Work

The TNI publishes research papers, books and organises seminars and debates. Its members include activists, researchers, writers, scholars, journalists and documentary makers. The organisation has specific interest sections called "programs". These are the fields the organisation currently focuses on.

Drugs and democracy

The program analyses worldwide trends on drugs-policies and promotes a pragmatic approach to drugs based on damage-control. It has written on countries in

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and

Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern Asia, South-eastern Asia or SEA, is the geographical south-eastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of mainlan ...

. Ricardo Soberón, the Lawyer who was the drug tsar for Peru until 2012, has carried out research for TNI.

Public alternatives

The public alternatives program publishes research and organises events on the following topics * The effects of privatisation such as water privatisation * Energy democracy * The return of

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or re-municipalization for which it has documented more than 200 cases. * Transformative Cities *

Participatory democracy Participatory democracy, participant democracy or participative democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather than through elected repr ...

Trade and investment

Publications * ''Financialisation: A Primer'' (2018 update) - about

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Other programs

* Myanmar * War & Pacification * Colombia * Agrarian & Environmental Justice * Corporate Power

References

External links

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{{authority control Think tanks based in the Netherlands Political and economic think tanks based in the European Union Think tanks established in 1974 Members of the International Science Council