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Welcome
About the Commission
Commission Officers
PCCD
Panels at the 2004 Convention
Links to Related Peace and Conflict Sites
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to International Association
for Conflict Management
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Links to Websites Related to the PCCC
We have identified six categories for the links to webpages related to peace
and conflict communication. Some websites could easily fall into more
than one category. Let us
know if you are aware of additional websites we should add to the
list.
The six categories we use are:
Peace Links
- The Consortium on Peace
Research, Education, and Development (COPRED) is a community of
educators, activists and researchers working on alternatives to violence
and war. COPRED spreads effective methods of nonviolent social change
among diverse racial and socio-economic populations.
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
The Friends Committee on National Legislation is a nation-wide network
of thousands of Quakers and like-minded people who work together to
bring Friends' values to bear on public policy in our nation's capital.
Since 1943, FCNL has worked toward a non-military world order so firmly
based on justice and voluntary cooperation that there would be no place
for war.
- The Martin Luther King Jr. Papers
Project at Stanford University, contains secondary documents written
about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written
during King's life.
- The Nobel Peace Prize page.
- PeaceNet provides
connections through which people can take action for positive social
change in the areas of peace, social and economic justice, human rights
and the struggle against racism.
- Search for Common Ground was founded in
1982 in Washington, DC, and the European Center for Common Ground was
established in Brussels in 1995. Both Organizations share a vision of
transforming how the world deals with conflict -- away from adversarial
approaches toward cooperative solutions. To implement this vision, they
carry out programs that aim to resolve conflict, and prevent violence.
Institutes and Organizations
- The Carter Center in Atlanta,
Georgia is a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy institute founded by
former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in 1982. The
Center is dedicated to fighting disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and
oppression through collaborative initiatives in the areas of
democratization and development, global health, and urban
revitalization. At present Carter Center programs have touched the lives
of people in 65 countries, including the United States.
- The University of California Institute
on Conflict and Cooperation is a multi-campus research unit serving
the University of California system, to study the causes of
international and help devise options for resolving it through
international.
- The Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute conducts research contributing to the understanding of the
preconditions for a stable peace and for peaceful solutions of
international conflicts, concentrating on armaments, their limitation
and reduction, and arms control.
- Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI)
conducts research centered around the following major areas: problems of
armament, disarmament and security and theories of war and peace;
Finnish foreign and security policy; the Third World, the structure of
the international system, relationships between development and
disarmament, as well as peace and development research and peace
education.
- The Transnational Foundation for
Peace and Future Research is a Swedish-based organization conducting
academic research and field studies in conflict mitigation.
- The Martin Institute
for Peace Studies Conflict Resolution provides (1) peace-related
data sets for analysis by qualified researchers and (2) complete
statistical analysis of the Martin Institute's data sets.
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center
focuses on the Holocaust, providing links to the Tolerance Museum.
- The United Nations: Of particular interest
may be their Peace and Security
page.
- United States Institute of Peace's
mission is to strengthen the nation's capabilities promote the peaceful
resolution of international conflicts.
Conflict Resolution Links
- The Colorado Conflict Research
Consortium is a multidisciplinary program of research, teaching, and
application, focused on finding more constructive ways of addressing
difficult, long-term, and intractable conflicts, and getting that
information to the people involved in these conflicts so that they can
approach them in a more constructive way. A joint university-community
program, the Consortium unites researchers, educators, and practitioners
from many fields for the purposes of theory-building, testing,
disseminating, and applying new conflict management techniques. These
efforts are designed to lead to an improved understanding of conflict
dynamics, along with better methods for confronting and managing
intractable conflicts and reaching good decisions.
- Created
in 1994, the U.S. - Mexico Conflict
Resolution Center (bilingual) (CRC) is a non-profit organization
located on the main campus of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces,
New Mexico. The CRC was created as the result of a U.S. Congressional
initiative to provide education, training and services in the area of
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) for entities engaged in private
commercial trade between the United States and M_xico.
Online Journals and Magazines
- Online Journal of Peace and
Conflict Resolution (published by the Tabula Rasa Institute) is
intended as a resource for students, teachers and practitioners in
fields relating to the reduction and elimination of conflict. It desires
to be a free, yet valuable, source of information to aid anyone trying
to work toward a less violent and more cooperative world.
- Peace and Conflict Studies
is an online journal published by The Lentz Peace Research Association
on Behalf of The Network of Peace and Conflict Studies.
Alternative Dispute Resolution, Arbitration, &
Mediation
- The Society of Professionals in Dispute
Resolution (SPIDR) is an international membership association
committed to the advancement of the highest standards of ethics and
practice for dispute resolvers.
- Members
of the Academy of Family Mediators
provide mediation services to families facing decisions involving
separation, divorce or marital dissolution, child custody, parenting,
visitation, property division, wills and estates, elder care, spouse
support or alimony, child support, family business, pre-nuptial
agreements, and many other disputes, conflicts or issues involving the
family.
- The
Association for Conflict Resolution is a professional organization
dedicated to enhancing the practice and public understanding of conflict
resolution. It is a merged organization of the Academy of Family Mediators,
the Conflict Resolution Education Network (CREnet), and SPIDR.
Listings of Academic Programs
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