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The International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty, abbreviated ICDISS, is an international non-governmental organization which specializes in nation-building issues. The organization focuses its activities in two areas: The first is nation-building in failed states (although it prefers to refer to such states as weak or conflict states); the second is nation-building in new or emerging states, some of the latter being unrecognized countries with de facto sovereignty.

Founding and Membership

The International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty was founded in Washington D.C. in December 1999. The organization has about 60 members (2005). Most members are either active career diplomats and professionals from international organizations. The organization is a proponent of upholding Westphalian sovereignty and critical of the new concept of contingent sovereignty. One of the organization's leading members wrote about this in a now-defunct personal blog called The Diplomad and in the forums of the icdiss.org website.

Activities

Since 2002, the organization has been holding an annual spring conference at the graduate school of the law faculty of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. An annual fall conference is held in Washington D.C. in rented conference facilities of hotels.

External links

• International Council for Democratic Institutions and State Sovereignty official website
• Archive of The Diplomad blog
• Really ?

• Non-governmental organizations