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Conflict Mapping

Accepting as fundamental to curing conflicts is the need to map needs, history, principles and interestes of the parties. If there is access to technology a wiki wiki map might provide a great solution allowing for widespread participatory contribution to collectively edited groups of documents.

Track II mediation

Conflict resolution

Communication

Commissions for Truth

Characters

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Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) (international NGO):
—— Belgium: http://www.asf.be/
—— France: http://asffrance.multimania.com
—— Lawyers Without Borders, http://lawyerswithoutborders.gobizgo.com/
Coalition for an International Criminal Court (CICC) (international NGO),
http://www.igc.org/icc/
—— CICC web page on the Rome Treaty Conference,
http://www.igc.org/icc/rome/index.html
Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (international NGO),
http://child-soldiers.org
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation, Australia (governmental),
http://reconciliation.org.au
Creative Associates International (CAII) (USA, private international consulting firm),
http://www.caii-dc.com/
—— Conflict Prevention: A Guide,
http://www.caii-dc.com/ghai/outline.htm
—— War Crimes Tribunals/Truth Commissions (Commissions of Inquiry),
http://www.caii-dc.com/ghai/toolbox23.htm
Fédération Internationale des Ligues des Droits de l’Homme (FIDH) (international NGO),
http://www.fidh.org/
Human Rights Watch,
http://www.hrw.org
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity (INCORE), University of Ulster and United Nations
University (academic),
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/
—— Guide to Internet sources on Truth and Reconciliation,
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/themes/truth.html
—— Dealing with the Past, Conference Papers, 8–9 June 1998,
http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/home/publication/conference/thepast/index.html
International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), USA (NGO),
http://www.ictj.org
International Commission of Jurists (international NGO),
http://www.icj.org/
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (UN-mandated),
http://www.icrc.org/
International Court of Justice (ICJ) (United Nations),
http://www.icj-cij.org/
International Criminal Court,
http://www.un.org/law/icc/index.html
International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (United Nations),
http://www.un.org/icty/
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) (United Nations),
http://www.ictr.org/
International Crisis Group (ICG), (international NGO),
http://www.intl-crisis-group.org/
International Internet Bibliography on Transitional Justice (Gunnar Theissen,
Free University, Berlin) (academic),
http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~theissen/biblio/index.html
No Peace Without Justice (NPWJ) International Committee of Parliamentarians,
Mayors and Citizens,
http://www.agora.stm.it/npwj/frame.html
Penal Reform International (PRI) (international NGO), http://penalreform.org
Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Harvard University (academic),
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/justiceproject/
Redress. Seeking Reparation for Torture Survivors (international NGO),
http://redress.org
Transitional Justice Project, University of the Western Cape and the Humboldt University of Berlin
(academic),
http://www.uwc.ac.za/law/tjp/
Truth Commissions Project, Harvard Law School – Search for Common Ground (academic–NGO),
http://www.truthcommission.org
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), South Africa (governmental),
http://www.truth.org.za/
—— Report of the South African TRC,
http://www.polity.org.za/govdocs/commissions/1998/trc/index.htm
United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (independent federal institution), http://www.usip.org/
—— Truth Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry,
http://www.usip.org/library/truth.html
Carter Center (associated with Emory

Military Strategy

(Institutes/Centres)

  • US Institute for Peace IR institutes Comprehensive list around the globe.
  • Power and Interest News Report (PINR) Independent organization that utilizes open source intelligence to provide conflict analysis services in the context of international relations.
  • On War History or wars with good timeline
  • Saferworld (NTI),
  • Elearning Folke Bernadotte Academy
  • FBA Course Notes Internal notes.
  • FBA Home Page Internal notes.
  • PATRIR Institute, organisation, training centre and network, linking together scholars, grassroots activists, and peace researchers throughout Romania, South-Eastern Europe and internationally.  Its aim is to address the core challenges facing Romania and the countries of South and Eastern Europe, to strengthen and empower grassroots organisations and citizens' action, to mobilise people for active peace work and peaceful conflict transformation, and to address the structural causes of poverty, human rights violations and economic and social injustice.
  • TRANSCEND is a network of more than 200 of the world's leading practitioners and scholars in peacebuilding and development from over 60 countries around the world.  Committed to the promotion of peace by peaceful means, TRANSCEND has 20 active programmes, and conducts its work through action, education/training, dissemination and research.  With centres in Barcelona (Spain), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Geneva (Switzerland), Hagen (Germany), Honolulu (USA), Kyoto (Japan), Moscow (Russia), Sandnes (Norway), Taplow Court (Great Britain), Torino (Italy), Vienna (Austria), and Washington, DC (USA).
  • The TRANSCEND Peace University In February, 2003, TRANSCEND launched the world's first ever truly global Peace University on-line.
CH :
  • GCSP ;
  • SwissPeace
  • NCCR North-South
    DK :
  • COPRI
  • publs
    GA :
  • CIPDD
    NO :
  • PRIO
  • SA :
  • ISS
  • publs
    SE :
  • SIPRI
    UK :
  • Amnesty International
  • Conciliation Resources
  • publs
  • Accord
  • Conflict Management Group
  • CRInfo
  • Intl Crisis Group
  • INCORE
  • IWPR Caucasus
  • International Alert
  • publs
  • BTC pipe-line report
  • International Peace Academy
    US :
  • Peacemaker Circle International
  • Pugwash
  • Transnational Foundation for Peace
  • USIP ,
  • reports
  • 1998 NK Report
  • 1994 NK proposal
  • Centre for International Development and Conflict Management Seeking Enduring solutions to intractable conflicts. Minorities at Risk Project Gurr; The Rwanda Project; biennial
  • Peace and Conflict 2005.
  • Carnegie Endowment Pulbications
  • Inter Religious Federation of World Peace
  • The Global Conference is the culmination of three years of work involving over a thousand civil society groups and individuals from all corners of the globe, who have formed the international network, the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, of ‘people building peace.’

  • The American University Center for Global Peace Track II project in NK.

    Humanitarian Intervention

    Human Rights & Relief & Rescue & Figth against Poverty

    US :

  • Center for Global Development ,
  • publ
  • GapResearch
  • International Rescue Committee (IRC)
  • Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy Casin (with
  • capacitybuilding)
  • FieldDiplomacy (BE)
  • EPLO
  • European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation
  • gppac.net Have a section on the role of civil society in South Caucasus

  • Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict
  • Conflict in Iraq - Concerns and Consequences - a joint initiative by three foreign-affairs think-tanks - the British American Security Information Council (BASIC), the International Security Information Service (ISIS) and Saferworld to inform international consideration of the political, military and economic dynamics of the crisis over Iraq.
  • Conflict Prevention Associates (CPA) - located in Brussels, Belgium. The CPA partly evolved out of the Conflict Prevention Network (CPN), a project funded by the European Commission and entrusted to the Berlin-based Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) from 1997 to 2001. In particular, the closing of the CPN project by the European Commission at the end of 2001 opened up new opportunities to apply the know-how and methodology in the field of peace-building and conflict prevention to a wider audience.
  • Demilitarisation for Democracy strives to promote the growth of democratic and prosperous societies throughout the world. DFD's work focuses on the Arms Trade Code of Conduct, The Year 2000 campaign to redirect Military spending to human development and the campaign to Ban Landmines.
  • ECDPM (European Centre for Development Policy Management) - through capacity building, the promotion of policy dialogue, and the provision of information, ECDPM aims to improve cooperation between Europe and countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific.
  • Irish Peace Institute - contributes to the process of peace-building through programmes of education, research and outreach directed to the development of mutual understanding and co-operation between the people of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
  • Life and Peace Institute - an international and ecumenical institute for peace research and action, founded in 1985 and based in Uppsala, Sweden.
  • Group for Research and Information on Peace and Security
  • PCIA-network (CIAS information exchange network)
  • International Peace Information Service

    Conflict & Gender

  • WomenWagingPeace
  • SaferworldUK
  • Building Peace from Ground Up

    • Conflict Resolution

    • Peace Forge -A wiki dedicated to best practices in peace and conflict resolution
    • Search For Common Ground - One of the world's largest non-government organisations dedicated to conflict resolution
    • CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium- 'The Dispute Resolution Headquarters in New York City.
    • New Conversations Online Library Communication-skills and conflict-resolution books, essays, articles, scholarly papers & teaching materials (all free of charge in PDF or web format).
    • Riverhouse ePress Riverhouse ePress is a web publisher of edocs on conflict resolution, including a conflict style inventory with built-in cultural sensitivities, and how-to booklets on group facilitation, dialogue, and consensus-building.
    • The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was one of the first Masters programs in conflict resolution and is the largest recipient of Fulbright Scholars in conflict resolution.
    • Wikia: Conflict Resolution -A wikia dedicated to conflict resolution
    • The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution The Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University is the oldest graduate program in Conflict Analysis and Resolution in the United States and was the first PhD program in the field
    • The University for Peace The University for Peace was created in 1980 by the United Nations “to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings the spirit of understanding, tolerance and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress, in keeping with the noble aspirations proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations.” It is the only University in the UN family able to grant degrees and it has eight master's programmes related to conflict resolution and peace building.
    • New Conversations Online Library Communication-skills and conflict-resolution books, essays, articles, scholarly papers & teaching materials (all free of charge in PDF or web format).
    • Peacemakers Trust Peacemakers Trust, based in Victoria, Canada, is a non-profit organization for research and education in the field of conflict resolution and peacebuilding with an extensive searchable online bibliography.
    • Socratic Method Society - Uses a "modified version" of the Socratic method to resolve interpersonal conflict
    • U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution - The U.S. Institute provides a neutral place inside the federal government, but independent of other agencies, where public and private interests can reach common ground through the use of non-adversarial, interest-based negotiation.