"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
STOLEN CHILDREN, SHATTERED LIVES? A PROPOSAL FOR THE CHILD SOLDIER TRACKING PROJECT (CSTP): A STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF ABDUCTION, SOLDERING, AND REINTEGRATION ON THE CHILDREN OF SUDAN AND UGANDA

"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
NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE PILOT STUDY

"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
THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES

"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
WHAT IS THE MEANING OF VIOLENT TOYS?

"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
CASE STUDY ON CONFLICT EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SUPPORT

"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.

In academic terms, the consolidation with the Canadian University of Quebec and the organization of the Innu indigenous gave birth to different visits and interchanges and this year to the organization of a common theme in the XXXII Encounter of the Network of Urban Researchers (RNIU, in Spanish).

For IPRA, it was the first book written by a Southern Regional Association dealing with issues related to peace-building, conflict resolution and prevention in a subcontinent threatened by climate change, resource access, drug war and public insecurity."

Úrsula Oswald Spring, Mexico
PROCESSES OF NON-VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICA

"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
THE EFFECT OF GROUP IDENTITY ON MEMORIES OF PAST CONFLICTS

"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:
Two relatively big news agencies (Inter press Service - 570 newspapers and magazines; and JTA - the Jewish global news agency which writes for over 100 newspapers and websites), articles in newspapers were published in leading newspapers in Israel, Belgium, Egypt (discussed the study), and this week I am interviewed for an American newspaper and the leading Italian newspaper + over 100 websites around the world put articles focusing on the study + I was interviewed for the Saudi Arabia English TV channel. Surely quite a few articles were published by the newspapers which get articles from the 2 news agencies - but I can not have information about it.

All this is until now. There is still activity in this direction and I believe more will be published. So, it seems that there is interest in the study."

Rafi Nets-Zehngut, Israel
MAPPING THE ISRAELI COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE ISRAELI-ARAB/PALESTINIAN CONFLICT