The Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association is the Regional Association of

International Peace Research Association The International Peace Research Association is a global network of academics. It was founded in 1964, and promotes peace by supporting national organizations, hosting conferences, publishing and supporting the publication of peace-promoting journ ...

- IPRA. It is an international

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of peace researchers, peace educators and peace advocates. The Asian Peace Research Association was established on 5 December 1980, at the closing of the conference on Asian Peace Research in the Global Context held in

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, Japan. The name was changed to the current name, Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (APPRA), on 4 February 1992, during a regional conference organized by the association held at the

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, New Zealand.https://web.archive.org/web/20091021080123/http://geocities.com/asiapacificpeace/history.html History of APPRA Prof. John P. Synott of

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is currently the

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of APPRA.

Orientation

The distinctive orientation of APPRA is towards building societies of peace and

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. Basic to this mission is a comprehensive understanding of peace which means not only the absence of

war War is an armed conflict between the armed forces of states, or between governmental forces and armed groups that are organized under a certain command structure and have the capacity to sustain military operations, or between such organi ...

and conflict but above all the presence of essential conditions for the well-being of humanity.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association (Appra) Peace organisations based in Australia