Human rights Communication can change the world. Q & A, interview Outreach support
Media of equity

GPEC groupIPRAGPEC* forum about the issues of and answers to the global political economy; dialog includes the

1. fruits of the 2006 Conference,

2. goals for IPRA 2008, and

3. issues of the global market.

* International Peace Research Association
Global Political Economy Commission

Global Political Economy Commission
 


IPRA Calgary 2006 Conference:
Patterns of Conflict, Paths to Peace

GPEC: Global Political Economy Commission sponsored several sessions at the 2004 IPRA Conference in Sopron, Hungary. One of the plenary sessions featured Heikki Patomaki and joint sessions with the Human Rights Commission and the Art and Peace Commission.

The GPEC:

  • maintains a list serve—IPRAGPE for discussion among members on global political economy issues
  • planned the Calgary Conference in 2006 including a joint session with the Commission on Nonviolence on Gandhi Economics

  • works with the World Social Forum at Porto Alegre and co-sponsoring several panels there, through Azril Bacal who is both a member of CGPE and on the WSF organizing committee.

IPRAGPEC 2002 Seoul, Korea 19th General Conference papers

IPRA 20th General Conference, 2004—Theme: Resistance to Globalization

Dr. Howard Richards—co-chair of the Global Political Economy Commission of the International Peace Research Association—presented the following papers to the 20th Conference of the IPRA, Sopron, Hungary, July 2004. Addresses by Professor Richards to the conference:

More research and analysis from other peace writers:

by Mohammad Jadallah, M.D. of Palestine:

Reconstruction of Social Reality: Ethical TransformationDr. Howard Richards: an address to a graduate course at the National University of Rosario, Argentina

Long Downward Phase of the Capitalist World Economy—in PDF—by Heikki Patomaki, Professor of International Relations at the University of Helsinki, Finland

Political and Economic Conditions in Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh: Impact to the Economy and Security of the Caucasus—by Hripsime Nalbandyan, Professor of International Studies at the University of Economics in Prague