Home
  • Agrarian Justice


    The ‘agrarian justice’ cluster in TNI brings together research and analysis on various pressing issues directly linked to the rural world, such as the impact of agrofuels, overseas aid and land policies, global land grabbing, food sovereignty, social movements and rural democratisation.

  • Alternative Regionalisms

    The stalemate of World Trade Organisation talks in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of regional Free Trade Agreements. The European Union and European corporations have been the main proponents, through a strategy called “Global Europe.” TNI’s Alternative Regionalisms Programme plays a critical bridging role between social organisations in the South and North challenging these agreements and putting forward alternatives

  • Drugs and Democracy


    TNI’s Drugs & Democracy programme has gained a reputation worldwide as one of the leading international drug policy research institutes and is widely recognised as a critical watchdog on UN drug control institutions and policies.

  • Environmental Justice


    Carbon Trade Watch (CTW) is part of TNI’s Environmental Justice Programme and is a leading critic of carbon trading and other proposed free-market mechanisms to tackle climate change. The project combines multimedia and popular education work with cutting edge research, and supports grassroots movements promoting a radical critique on climate justice.

  • New Politics


    The New Politics Programme researches and actively engages in attempts to create radical forms of democracy and democratic governance in response to the exhaustion of conventional political institutions.

  • Peace & Security


    TNI’s Peace and Security Programme brings together cutting-edge analyses of critical conflicts such as the war in Afghanistan and its regional implications, allies itself with a growing international grassroots movement challenging foreign military bases, and is pioneering research on the little-publicised spread of new security infrastructure in Europe and worldwide.

  • Water justice


    Water Justice project, run jointly by TNI and Corporate European Observatory is engaged in the work of building viable alternatives to water privatisation, focused on how to reform public utilities in order to make the human right to water a reality for everyone.

TNI projects