TNI Fellows' Meeting on alternatives to the Washington Consensus in the Global South.

TNI organises tour throughout Europe with COMadres, a group of Salvadoran women of the Committee of Mothers and relatives of political prisoners, disappeared and murdered of El Salvador.

Ariane van Buren is appointed as the new TNI director. Debt project is established by Jan Joost Teunissen.

TNI develops work on trade issues, and publishes two books: one on the Non-Proliferation Treaty and one on private foreign aid.

In the frame of TNI's Central America Project, 600 signatures of European politicians and parliamentarians are publicised, expressing a strong disagreement with the Reagan Administration's policy on Nicaragua.

TNIdeas magazine second and third issue published, including critical analysis of the US war on Iraq.

TNI organises series of debates on 'The Technological Culture'.

TNI's work with peasant organisations deepens, with a research project, conference and European tour of peasant leaders to share the perspectives of the agricultural sector in Central America in relation to Europe and its agricultural policies.