COPENHAGEN PEACE RESEARCH INSTITUTE - COPRI


    Address: Fredericiagade 18,
    Dk-1310 Copenhagen K - Denmark
    Phone Number: (45) 3345 5050 / Fax: (45) 3345 5060
    E-mail: info@copri.dk
    Web Site: http://www.copri.dk


    The Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (COPRI) was established as an independent institute by the Danish Parliament in 1985 aimed at supporting and strengthening multidisciplinary research on Peace and Security. In 1996 the status of COPRI was made permanent and changed to that of a Government Research Institute under the Ministry of Research and Information Technology. At the same time COPRI changed its name in English from the previous one, Centre for Peace and Conflict Research, to its present but retained its Danish name, Center for Freds- og Konfliktforskning.

    The purpose of COPRI is to stimulate debate and research on international key issues related to Peace and Security Studies. The institute does this through research, seminars, publications and news.

    Research

    Peace Research aims at being multi-level, pluralist, transdisciplinary, value oriented and policy relevant. Central research problems include: conflict analysis and resolution; feasible peaceful world orders; causes and effects of wars (refugees, economic destruction, reconstruction, conversion); arms races and demilitarization; models for interaction between collectivities, their systemic restraints and possible future changes; identifying potentially dangerous developments ("early warning") and analysis of how they can be turned in more peaceful directions.

    COPRI strives for excellence in a few focused areas, not trying to cover all of peace research. Project teams - and synergy between them - are the crucial units for quality and growth of research. Research at an international level has highest priority, with several other activities as spinoffs.

    Research at COPRI is organized in five main research programmes: three modified from present, internationally established ones, and two new to widen the peace research profile of COPRI.

    Research at COPRI is organized in five main research programmes:

    * European Security (EUR)
    * Military Restructuring (MIL)
    * Security in the Nordic and Baltic Sea Area (NORD)
    * Intra-State Conflicts: Causes and Peace Strategies (CONF)
    * Global Governance and Peace (GOV)

    Board

    The Board of COPRI, for the period 2000-2002, consists of:

    Professor Judit Balázs,
    University of Sopron, Hungary
    balazsj@efe.hu
    Tel: +36 99 518 382

    Professor Bengt Sundelius,
    National Defence College, Stocholm, Sweden
    bengt.sundelius@fhs.mil.se
    Tel: +46 8 7889819

    Professor Dr. Michael Zürn,
    Institut für Interkulturelle und Internationale Studien,
    Universität Bremen, Germany
    mizuern@zfn.uni-bremen.de
    Tel: +49 (0421) 218 2098/9060

    Associate Professor Mette Skak,
    Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus, Denmark.
    msk@ps.aau.dk
    Tel: +45 8942 1280

    Associate Professor Susanne Thorbek,
    Center for Gender and Women's Studies,
    Aalborg University, Denmark
    thorbek@i4.auc.dk
    Tel: +45 9635 8393

    Senior Research Fellow Bjørn Møller,
    Programme Director MIL (staff representative)
    bmoeller@copri.dk
    Tel: +45 3345 5052

    Senior Research Fellow Ulla Holm,
    COPRI (staff representative, substitute for Bjørn Møller).
    uholm@copri.dk
    Tel: +45 3345 5062

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