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Peace Research Foundation
Conflict Studies Research Centre | Report Error | | Geographical Location: United Kingdom | | Description: 'The Centre was formed in 1972 and is part of the British Army's Doctrine and Development Directorate. It uses original sources to analyse 1) long-term factors of instability in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and 2) military and security policy and practice in the region.' | | http://csrc.ac.uk/frames/frames | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Copenhagen, Denmark | | Description: 'The purpose of COPRI is to stimulate debate and research on international key issues related to Peace and Security Studies. The institute does this through research, seminars, publications and news. Peace Research aims at being multi-level, pluralist, transdisciplinary, value oriented and policy relevant. Central research problems include: conflict analysis and resolution; feasible peaceful world orders; causes and effects of wars (refugees, economic destruction, reconstruction, conversion); arms races and demilitarization; models for interaction between collectivities, their systemic restraints and possible future changes; identifying potentially dangerous developments ('early warning') and analysis of how they can be turned in more peaceful directions.' | | http://www.copri.dk/research/re | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Universitet | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Uppsala, Sweden | | Description: 'The Department of Peace and Conflict Research was established in 1971 to conduct peace research and offer courses in peace and conflict studies. The research profile of the Department can be divided into two general fields of study: 1) the origins and dynamics of conflict, and
2) conflict resolution and international security issues.
In addition, there is considerable general work, including some analysis of peace research itself, as well as the production of research-based educational materials.' | | http://www.pcr.uu.se/ | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Flensburg, Germany | | Description: 'The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) advances majority-minority relations in the wider Europe through action, research and documentation. It supports the stabilization of areas of ethnopolitical tension and conflict, contributes to the strengthening of relevant legislation and best practices in governance and enhances the capacity of civil society actors and governments to engage with one another in a constructive and sustainable way.' | | http://www.ecmi.de/doc/ | Date Added: 10/13/2003 |
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| German Association for Peace and Conflict Research | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Berlin, Germany | | Description: 'The German Association for Peace and Conflict Research (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, AFK) was founded in 1968 by peace researchers from the social sciences as well as the humanities. At present, the association has a membership of more than 250 individual members plus several peace research institutions as institutional members. The association wants to promote the scholarly exchange of peace researchers from different institutional backgrounds and to stimulate peace research across disciplinary boundaries. The association also seeks to discuss the implications of peace research with political decision makers as well as the general public.' | | http://www.bicc.de/coop/afk/eng | Date Added: 12/15/2003 |
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| Heidelberg Institute of International Conflict Research | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Heidelberg, Denmark | | Description: 'The Heidelberg Institute of International Conflict Research (HIIK) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Heidelberg is a private organization. The work is dedicated to research, documentation and analysis
of national and international political conflicts. The HIIK was founded in 1991 to continue the work of the research project KOSIMO (Conflict-Simulation-Model) headed by Prof. Dr. Frank R. Pfetsch (Universtiy of Heidelberg).' | | http://www.hiik.de/en/main.htm | Date Added: 12/15/2003 |
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| Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Stanford, California, USA | | Description: 'The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University, is a world-renowned library and archives, and a unique center of scholarship and public policy research, committed to generating ideas that define a free society. The Hoover Institution,was founded in 1919 by Herbert Hoover, who later became the thirty-first president of the United States. The Hoover Institution began as a specialized collection of documents on the causes and consequences of World War I and grew rapidly to encompass one of the largest archives and most complete libraries in the world on political, economic, and social change in the twentieth century. Increasing its scope, the Institution also became one of the first 'think tanks' in the United States, with a world-renowned group of scholars and ongoing programs of policy-oriented research.' | | http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/ | Date Added: 10/12/2003 |
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| Institute for Civil Justice | Report Error | | Geographical Location: Santa Monica, California, USA | | Description: 'The Institute for Civil Justice is an independent research program within RAND. The Institute's mission is to help make the civil justice system more efficient and more equitable by supplying government and private decision-makers and the public with the results of objective, empirically based, analytic research. The ICJ facilitates change in the civil justice system by analyzing trends and outcomes, identifying and evaluating policy options, and bringing together representatives of different interests to debate alternative solutions to policy problems. The Institute builds on a long tradition of RAND research characterized by an interdisciplinary, empirical approach to public policy issues and rigorous standards of quality, objectivity, and independence.' | | http://www.rand.org/icj/ | Date Added: 12/15/2003 |
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Half of World's Refugees are Children
There are approximately 50 million uprooted people around the world -
refugees who have sought safety in another country, and people displaced withi... (more info)
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