When he gave the money to create the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910, Andrew Carnegie charged the trustees of the new organization to use the fund to "hasten the abolition of international war, the foulest blot upon our civilization." They have done so for the past ten decades, and they are currently interested in transforming the Endowment into the "first truly...
The UN General Assembly Document, located at the University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, outlines a 1994 agreement of cooperation between the UN and the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The eighth summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference was recently held in Tehran, Iran. Iran recently hosted representatives from 55 countries to a three-day Muslim summit in Tehran in a...
The Disarmament Education site from the United Nations Office of Disarmament Affairs can be read and experienced in six languages. And that's just the beginning of the impressive depth and reach of the material presented here. Readers will find annual reports from the Secretary-General on Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Education, pithy presentations such as Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's slide...
The Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) Gopher Server offers a wide selection of information about or published by the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, a multicampus research unit of all nine UC campuses plus the Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. It includes interntational relations, environmental, security, and economics...
Since 1983, the University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC) has worked on research which looks "into the causes of international conflict and cooperation." The Institute draws on scholars from around the University of California system, and they also have a number of visiting scholars from different parts of the world. On their homepage, visitors will notice four...
Officially established in 1966, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was first proposed by Prime Minister Tage Erlander of Sweden in 1964 who thought such an organization would be an appropriate way to commemorate the country's 150 years of continuous peace. The primary task of the Institute is to conduct "scientific research on questions of conflict and cooperation of...
The US INSTITUTE OF PEACE web pages contain information regarding conflict resolution, negotiation theory, and specific resources pertaining ot Northern Ireland and South Africa. There is information on programs and organizations in conflict resolution and peace studies, and a general reference section that includes primarily general government resources. There are also links to journals and...
While it took close to 200 years, an official U.S. peace office was finally created in 1984 when President Ronald Reagan signed the United States Institute of Peace Act. The official mandate of the United States Institute of Peace is "to support the development, transmission, and use of knowledge to promote peace and curb violent international conflict." From the homepage, visitors can learn about...