Oxford Research Group (ORG) was a London-based charity and think tank in Cambridge Heath, London, UK [1] working on peace, security and justice issues.
Its research and dialogue activities were mainly focused on the Middle East, North and West Africa, as well as influencing UK and international security policy.
[2] ORG was founded in 1982 by Scilla Elworthy and a group of academics and activists with an interest in the psychological dimensions of international security decision-making.
Formerly the Middle East Programme, it has brokered a series of Track II dialogues in Israel, Palestine and Egypt and between Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and other states.
The programme uses a strategic thinking methodology based in ‘radical disagreement’ theory[6] to develop strategies for alternative routes to peaceful co-existence.
[10] The Oxford Process was established in early 2017 to focus on the discreet high-level dialogues that ORG had facilitated over the previous 15 years under Gabrielle Rifkind.