Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace Former IPRA Secretary-General Chad Alger read the statement below honouring the work of Hanna Newcombe, a true Canadian pioneer in the realm of peace research. The statement was read on Sunday, July 2nd at the IPRA2006 Conference. The picture is of Hanna Newcombe receiving the Lester Pearson Peace Medal in 1997 from Geoffrey Pearson, the son of Lester Pearson, representing the UN Association - Canada. IPRA2006 Honours Canadian Peace Pioneer Hanna Newcombe Imagine a modest bungalow in a tree-shaded urban setting; you enter the comfortable but Spartan living room; are ushered down the narrow basement stairs and suddenly break into an industrious beehive of activity--a library, a cranking gestetner machine, shelves of journals and magazines; tables piled high with index cards and newspaper clippings. This was the Dundas, Ontario home of Alan and Hanna Newcombe, the founders of the Canadian Peace Research Institute, literally in their basement, until it later took over their entire home. In over 50 years of peace research and education Hanna has attended scores of peace conferences across North America and with IPRA wherever it met. She has marshalled teams of young people and retired folk to take notes from scores of journals and newspapers which carry peace-related essays. At every conference where Hanna was in attendance she would be one of the first to arrive, would seat herself close to the podium and with her 8 by 3 1/2 cards would take notes of conference presentations and thus piece together Peace Research Abstracts and Reviews. Like her husband Alan, Hanna gave up her chemistry occupation to become one of the first Canadian scientists to attempt to make a humble career of peace research. Her pilgrimage from empirical research to the art of forgiveness was reflected in her question on the latter put to Johan Galtung on Canada Day, 2006 in Calgary. Cane in hand and at age 84 she sought to question Galtung on the place of forgiveness in peace professionalism and the overcoming of violence. Hanna's life began as one of Jewish heritage leaving for Canada just prior to the world-war two holocaust. To-day she is a no-nonsense Quaker--recipient of the Lester Pearson Peace Medal and an Honourary Doctorate from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario where she occasionally assisted in peace and conflict studies courses. This summer (June/July 2006) Hanna travelled from Vancouver's World Peace Forum to IPRA2006 in Calgary by bus. That trip was all too typical of her inexpensive and modest ways of getting to conferences and living her life. Hanna, we all salute you as a courageous pioneer of Canadian Peace Research and as a model of perseverance, courage, and hope. ---Delivered by Chadwick Alger, with assistance from Larry Fisk at IPRA2006 in Calgary, July 2, 2006--- Pi