Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace

THE IPRA COMMISSIONS, WORKING GROUPS & REGIONAL ASSOCIATIONS


Click any of the Commission Pages listed on the left to see how each commission was organized into the sessions. As the many presentations are posted, their titles will become hyperlinks to the actual documents. When the authors supply email, biographical information and pictures, there will be a page for them where you can communicate to them if you wish. The icon images and will also help identify these changes. The format is Microsoft Office. Click here if you need readers. Click "Links to IPRA HQ, Belgium" (on the right) for further background including the contact info on the convenors. Note that not all Commissions were on the agenda at IPRA2006. On any of these pages, there are hyperlinks

Interdisciplinary Commissions Abbreviation Links to IPRA
HQ, Belgium
Art and Peace Commission APC ... IPRA
Conflict Resolution and Peace-Building Commission CRPBC ...IPRA
Eastern Europe Commission EEC ...IPRA
Ecology and Peace Commission EPC ...IPRA
Forced Migration Commission     not at IPRA2006 FMC ...IPRA
Gender and Peace Commission GPC ...IPRA
Global Political Economy Commission GPEC ...IPRA
Indigenous Peoples' Rights Commission IPRC ...IPRA
Internal Conflicts Commission ICC ...IPRA
International Human Rights Commission CHRC ...IPRA
Nonviolence Commission NVC ...IPRA
Peace Culture and Communications Commission PCCC ...IPRA
Peace Education Commission PEC ..IPRA
Peace History Commission     not at IPRA2006 PHC ...IPRA
Peace Movements Commission PMC ...IPRA
Peace Theories Commission PTC ...IPRA
Reconciliation Commission RC ...IPRA
Religion and Peace Commission RPC ...IPRA
Security and Disarmament Commission SDC ...IPRA

Working Groups Abbreviation Links to IPRA
HQ, Belgium
Development and Peace Group     not at IPRA2006 DPG ...IPRA
Earth Charter Working Group ECWG ...IPRA
Evaluation of Development and Peace Activities Group     not at IPRA2006 EDPAG ...IPRA
Governance and Peace Group     not at IPRA2006 GPG ...IPRA
Knowledge and Peace Group     not at IPRA2006 KPG ...IPRA
Middle East Group     not at IPRA2006 PJG ...IPRA
Peace Journalism Group PJG ...IPRA
Peace Negotiation and Mediation Group     not at IPRA2006 PNMG ...IPRA
Youth Caucus YC ...IPRA

Regional Associations

Note: The Regional Associations are often without active web presence.

Background on Commissions


In order to develop better cooperation between scholars, decision-makers and practitioners IPRA has created interdisciplinary commissions or communities of inquiry. Each commission has its own officers. The activities include organizing panels and stimulating communication among interested peace researchers through meetings, publications, and occasional papers. Some regional associations and commissions hold annual meetings. Members of IPRA can also choose to affiliate with a geographic region.

These Commissions have proved over time to be important areas of study. Those that are appropriate to any given conference do change. If you have any interest in these Commissions, the links will take you to the parent association for more information.

Similarly, some of the listed working groups and regional associations will have meetings at the biennial conference in June.

The components of IPRA which are to be reflected in the agenda of the upcoming conference will be posted in these pages as the work of many persons over the last two years comes to fruition.

Pieces of Peace