Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for, according to the Nobelprize.org, "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about
man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures
that are needed to counteract such change."

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CIVICUS has officially announced that the focus theme for the 8th 2008
CIVICUS World Assembly will be People, Participation and Power. The 7th
CIVICUS World Assembly brought together over 900 people from 124
countries with a focus on cross sectoral accountability and the
responsibility of powerful actors with regard to their actions. What
emerged from 2007 was a serious need to look at civil society's
capacity to act in concert to realise the big picture and knowing there
are allies in government, business, media and donor bodies who are

There are a plethora of useful websites for people interested in peace and development. Feel free to contribute other useful sites. Many of these links were recommended on the Peace and Conflict Ning Site.

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The Exploding Methodology Symposium was an event that took place on September 20th, 2007. It was held at Goldsmiths University in London, UK. The event enabled researchers and scholars to submit papers dealing with a variety of methodological issues, mostly in the field of sociology. The papers were then presented to small groups by another indivvidual who had read the paper.

This entry attempts to create a comprehensive list of journals relating to peace.  Contributions are warmly welcomed.

Journals:

The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies

Journal of Peace Education

Journal of Peace Research

Peace and Change

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