- American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
Founded in 1999, the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is the only private, non-governmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting the peaceful resolution of the
Second Chechen war [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A20794-2002Jun20¬Found=true The Way to Chechen Peace] byZbigniew Brzezinski ,Alexander M. Haig AndMax Kampelman ,Washington Post , June 21, 2002 ] [http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3337] [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1299318,00.html The Chechens American friends] by John Laughland, September 8, 2004The Guardian ] [http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/62659.pdf] . Chaired by former National Security AdvisorZbigniew Brzezinski , former Secretary of StateAlexander M. Haig and former CongressmanStephen J. Solarz , the committee is composed of more than one hundred distinguished Americans representing both major political parties and nearly every walk of life. Based atFreedom House , the Committee's mission encompasses three distinct yet interrelated objectives::Advocacy: Developing and promoting policies, through the U.S. government and international institutions, aimed at protecting civilians, improving conditions for refugees and securing a cease-fire; :Information: Advancing public awareness of the Chechen war, including its broader implications for democracy, human rights, and regional stability in both Russia and the former Soviet Union; and :Diplomacy: Convening private "Track II" talks between representatives of the Russian government and Chechen resistance aimed at developing a framework for ending the war and resolving Chechnya's long-term legal and political status.
To those ends, ACPC organizes educational programs for the public, develops policy recommendations for lawmakers and collaborates with an international network of more than 400 activists, journalists, scholars and non-governmental organizations. The Committee distributes
Chechnya Today , a daily email news service, andChechnya Weekly , an online news magazine produced by theJamestown Foundation and edited until 2004 by Lawrence A. Uzzell.In keeping with its mandate to be an independent resource for the public and a good-faith arbiter for the warring parties, the committee does not accept financial assistance from the governments of Chechnya or Russia, or from private for-profit corporation with investments in the former Soviet Union.
Related Organizations
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Jamestown Foundation
*Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
*Freedom House ACPC Members
Morton Abramowitz Elliott Abrams Kenneth Adelman Bulent Ali-Reza Richard V. Allen Audrey L. Alstadt Vadim Altskan Zeyno Baran Antonio L. Betancourt John Bolsteins John Brademas Zbigniew Brzezinski Richard Burt John Calabrese Eric Chenoweth Walter C. Clemens Eliot Cohen Nicholas Daniloff Ruth Daniloff Midge Decter James S. Denton Larry Diamond Thomas R. Donahue Robert Dujarric John Dunlop Charles Fairbanks Sandra Feldman Geraldine A. Ferraro Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Erwin Friedlander Frank Gaffney Charles Gati Richard Gere Douglas Ginsburg Paul Goble Marshall I. Goldman Orlando Gutierrez Barbara Haig Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Robert P. Hanrahan Paul B. Henze Eleanor Herman Peter J. Hickman Norman Hill Irving Louis Horowitz Glen E. Howard Bruce P. Jackson Robert Kagan Max M. Kampelman Thomas Kean Mati Koiva Guler Koknar Harry Kopp William Kristol Janis Kukainis Saulius V. Kuprys Kenneth D. S. Lapatin Michael A. Ledeen Robert J. Lieber Seymour M. Lipset Robert McFarlane Mihajlo Mijajlov Bronislaw Misztal Joshua Muravchik Julia Nanay Johanna Nichols William Odom P.J. O'Rourke Richard Perle Richard Pipes Norman Podhoretz Moishe Pripstein Arch Puddington Peter Reddaway Peter R. Rosenblatt David Saperstein Gary Schmitt William Schneider Alexey Semyonov Andrew M. Sessler Philip Siegelman Sophia Sluzar Stephen J. Solarz Helmut Sonnenfeldt Gregory H. Stanton S. Frederick Starr Leonard R. Sussman Barry Tharaud Jack Thomas Tomarchio Sinan Utku George Weigel Caspar Weinberger Curtin Winsor R. James Woolsey Tatiana Yankelevich Jan Nowak References
External links
* [http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/ Official website of this organization]
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