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"The IPRA Foundation grant helped us get off the ground with our project. After the initial pilot that you helped fund, we were able to obtain $60,000 in funding from UNICEF and the Macarthur Foundation to expand and extend the project. We've just confirmed a $200,000 grant from UNICEF and the UK's Department for International Development to extend the research another year. The research has been very well received in Uganda and New York, and we've advised dozens of donors and NGOs on their programs in northern Uganda as a result. Your help in the very beginning was instrumental in this success. " Christopher Blattman, Canada "The Nonviolent Peaceforce conducted field research to explore three potential pilot project sites for our large-scale unarmed international "peace army": Guatemala, Israel/Palestine, and Sri Lanka. Researchers presented their findings at the Peaceforce Convening Event in India, where 130 international delegates picked Sri Lanka for the Peaceforce Pilot Project" Mel Duncan, USA "We are so grateful to the Foundation for our grant that enabled us to print one of our new publications. There are Realistic Alternatives. We know of one professor who has adopted the book for his classes and we have had interest expressed by others. Clearly, this publication has been significant and had some ripple effect, which may not have been possible without the IPRA Foundation's support" Gene Sharp, USA "Our toys and violence research was started in 2002 thanks to a grant the IPRA Foundation alloted us. We are going to publish a book, illustrated with drawings and pictures. These activities take place in the framework of our Program Give Peace a Chance started in 1999 and of the Global Campaign for Peace Education of the Hague Appeal for Peace." Alicia Cabezudo, Argentina "The IPRAF's support for research on peace and conflict resolution allowed me to develop new insights on the role of economic elements in solving conflicts. Thanks to IPRAF grant, I was able to access valuable information sources, conduct interviews with key players, and perform a more comprehensive research." Svetlana Luca, Moldova "The IPRAF small grant helped The Latin America Council for Peace Research (CLAIP)
to publish the book that was result of a meeting with indigenous leaders from
all the Americas, emphasizing the nonviolent conflict resolution of traditional
societies. Besides five book presentations in Mexico, there was one in Buenos
Aires, in the USA and in Canada with a personal link to the Senate in Argentina
and further with the Ministry of Social Affairs in Chile. As a result, in both
countries, two indigenous laws were developed, followed with one more in
Columbia and in Venezuela. Finally, in Bolivia, where the President got the book
personally and used it in his campaign for consolidating indigenous rights and
participation, today there exists in the Congress an important indigenous
representation to care for their rights.
"I thank International Peace Research Association for supporting this research. Originally, I had planned to conduct this research only in Turkey, by examining Turkish-Kurdish and Turkish-Armenian conflict contexts. This grant was instrumental not only in completing the planned research, but it also made possible to extend the research to the investigation of the ethnic conflict in Burundi. The IPRA grant was used to collect research data in Turkey and in Burundi." Rezarta Bilali, Albania "Articles that focus on the study I did that was funded by the IPRAF grant
were published in five languages (English, Hebrew, French, German and Dutch -
mostly in English) in:
"My work on (1) mediation and reconciliation of bloodfeuds and (2) the
cross-border Balkans Peace Park have been aided by IPRA sponsorship, and
presentation of work in progress at Calgary 2007 now resulting in articles: Antonia Young "The IPRA Foundation grant has provided a very timely boost to our action research on conflict sensitivity for religious organizations in Mindanao, Philippines. For instance, the Davao Ministerial Interfaith Inc. recently hosted an IPRAF-funded workshop which brought together 15 Roman Catholic, (Protestant) Evangelical and Muslim leaders from 3 provinces to explore and document how religious leaders are using the Do No Harm / Local Capacities for Peace conflict sensitivity tool. This workshop was a key step toward next year’s publication of findings, and a major contribution to the religious leaders’ own capacity building." Michelle G. Garred "Through the support of the IPRA Foundation, Global Education Associates has been able to develop a much needed reference for guide for peace educators on educational evaluation. The dearth of educational evaluation in the field of peace education, and the necessary training needed to conduct it properly, has been a major dilemma that few are addressing formally. By equipping educators within our networks (the IIPE, CIPE and Global Campaign for Peace Education) with some basic knowledge and skills in evaluation theory and methods we hope to make a small, but desperately needed contribution to the field. We hope to begin distributing this resource in the near future and look forward to sharing the new research that emerges." Tony Jenkins "We invite applicants from Mindanao, youths and adults from tri-peole
-Muslims, Christians and tribal people and those who qualify go to NIU for
a one-month training on peace, mediation and conflict resolution. After
the training, they go back to Mindanao and do their small projects on
peace in their respective communities. After three months, we assemble
them for a follow-on activity where they discussed success stories as well
as problems encountered in their communities.
"1. The grant gave us (my office) an opportunity to document a model
for a successful program on interfaith dialogue. As an offshoot of 9/11,
interfaith dialogue has become a major response to many conflicts
including Mindanao. The study has become a blueprint for this kind of
endeavor. Bing (Ofelia Durante) "I am very grateful to the IPRA Foundation for contributing to our Creative Response to Bullying Program in the United States. We were able to see linkages between bias and bullying behavior and show a decrease in detention rates when students and staff received CRC's bullying prevention workshops."
"Our grant from the IPRA Foundation allowed us to maintain a collaborative action-research project on community radio, democratization and peace in Palestine. Most of the funds were devoted to conducting and documenting a training program that was attended by some thirty youth and young professionals in Nablus. Even though the occupation and intra-communal conflict prevented our radio station from being launched, the knowledge generated and training made possible by this small grant have been invaluable in our community. Thanks to IPRA for supporting our unconventional research collaboration. It sustained us for many months of work."
"I found the small peace research grant very useful as it gives
opportunities to peacemakers to invest energies towards expanding the field of
the peace research, especially young peace researchers has a lot to benefit
from such funding opportunities. It is too early for me to talk about the
impact of my research under the IPRA Foundations' Small Peace Research Grant,
as my paper is yet to be published and I am hoping to present that next year
in at least one of the international conferences. Zahid Shahab Ahmed "A list of the policy and journal publications that came from the IPRAF-supported research can be found here: http://chrisblattman.com/projects/sway/. In the end this became a very large project with many donors, but IPRAF was one of our first and gave us the seed funding to get it off the ground. It led to four years of work on youth well-being and post-war reintegration in northern Uganda. Thanks for the support and let me know if there’s anything more I can add."
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