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Peace Research Foundation
| Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA | | Description: 'In an effort to establish more complete and valuable information to impact violence-related policies, programs, and practices, CSPV works from a multi-disciplinary platform on the subject of violence and facilitates the building of bridges between the research community and the practitioners and policy makers. CSPV has a threefold mission. First, the Information House serves to collect research literature and resources on the causes and prevention of violence and provides direct information services to the public by offering topical searches on customized databases. Second, CSPV offers technical assistance for the evaluation and development of violence prevention programs. Third, CSPV maintains a basic research component through data analysis and other projects on the causes of violence and the effectiveness of prevention and intervention programs.' | | http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/ | Date Added: 10/10/2003 |
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| Center for the Study and Promotion of Peace, Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia | | Description: The center's mission is to empower individuals and communities for peacebuilding in families, religious communities, working places, and within society based on love, truth, justice, and peace; through research and promotion of peace, education and training, consultation and conflict intervention, trauma healing, and provision of information. | | http://www.ukdw.ac.id/lpip/pspp | Date Added: 9/18/2003 |
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| Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Sydney, Australia | | Description: 'The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies was established in May 1988 as a specialist research and teaching centre within the University of Sydney. CPACS promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching on the causes of conflict and the conditions that affect conflict resolution and peace. Research projects and other activities focus on the resolution of conflict with a view to attaining just societies. Areas of research expertise and topics of externally funded research projects have included organisational conflict, non-violent policing, Aboriginal night patrols, disability policy, and mentoring the unemployed.' | | http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/cen | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Centre for Peace and Development Studies, University of Limerick | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Limerick, Ireland | | Description: 'The aim is to provide research evidence concerning conflict and its resolution both in Ireland and in other countries throughout the world. This evidence will contribute to an understanding of how conflicts develop and how they may be most effectively resolved. The Center's objective is to promote, facilitate and support research in the supply of objective, reliable data and information to those involved in the study of conflict and its resolution; the causes and resolution of conflict at all levels in society throughout the world; development issues in countries emerging from both poverty and conflict; and top-down and bottom-up diplomacy as aspects of good governance.' | | http://www.ul.ie/cpds/ | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Birmingham, United Kingdom | | Description: 'The Centre for Russian and East European Studies of the University of Birmingham is one of the world’s leading research institutes in its field. Established in 1963, CREES is a multi-disciplinary centre focusing on the social sciences and history. It is now a constituent department of the University’s School of Social Sciences and of the University’s European Research Institute – a national centre of excellence for the study of Europe housed in its own, new building. The wide-ranging research programme of the Centre includes studies of Russian, Ukrainian and Central European politics and society, post-communist economic transformation, the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, and security studies.' | | http://www.crees.bham.ac.uk/ | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Conflict Management Research Group (CMRG) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Australia | | Description: 'The Conflict Management Research Group (CMRG) was established in 1993 (as the Research Group for Mediation Studies) under the direction of Dale Bagshaw. The CMRG is part of The Hawke Institute. The CMRG aims to promote the study and the management of conflict, in all its areas, whether by the processes of the legal system or otherwise, for the benefit of the diverse cultural groups in contemporary Australia.' | | http://www.unisa.edu.au/cmrg/ | Date Added: 9/18/2003 |
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| Conflict Research Consortium | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Boulder, Colorado, USA | | Description: 'The 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.' | | http://www.colorado.edu/conflic | Date Added: 9/18/2003 |
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Conflict Resolution Network (CRN) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Chatswood NSW , Australia | | Description: 'Conflict Resolution Network (CRN) was founded in 1986 (then under the auspices of the United Nations Association of Australia). Its purpose is to research, develop, teach and implement the theory and practice of Conflict Resolution throughout a national and international network. Conflict Resolution Network is concerned with every area of conflict with national and international issues, with local, state and federal government, with the community, the workplace and personal and intimate conflicts.' | | http://www.crnhq.org/index.html | Date Added: 10/10/2003 |
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| Conflict Resolution, Research and Resource Institute (CRI) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Washington, D.C., USA | | Description: 'CRI conducts research, education, training, process coaching, direct intervention, and program evaluation services in conflict resolution theory and techniques for individuals and groups in community, national, and international arenas.' | | http://www.cri.cc/ | Date Added: 10/10/2003 |
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