Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania

The Peace Action, Training and Research Institute of Romania (PATRIR) "is an independent, non-governmental and non-profit organization, active in Romania and internationally since March 2001. The main purpose of PATRIR is to promote peacebuilding, and constructive conflict transformation, and at the same time the prevention of all forms of violence - direct, structural, and cultural - in Romania, and internationally...

"PATRIR cooperates with TRANSCEND as the TRANSCEND Centre for South-Eastern Europe. Since 2001, PATRIR has been one of TRANSCEND’s leading international training sites."

Staff
Accessed August 2007:


 * Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, Director
 * Anca Sandescu, Program Coordinator
 * Denis Matveev, Project Director
 * Denisa Brand-Jacobsen, Program Coordinator
 * Andra Tanase, Program Coordinator
 * Corina Simon, Program Coordinator
 * Balazs F. Elod, IT Administrator
 * Robert J. Rivers, Program Co-Coordinator
 * Zsuzsanna Kacso, Assistant to the Director
 * Bianca Cseke, Administrative Assistant

Partners
Accessed August 2007:


 * TRANSCEND - A Peace and Development Network for Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
 * Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) and Nonviolent Peaceforce Europe
 * BOCS Alapitvay
 * Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR)
 * Institute for Applied Cultural Research (IFAK)
 * Federation of Social Defence (BSV)
 * Department of Social Studies, Faculty of Educational Sciences – University of Florence (UNIFI-DSS)
 * Center of Studies for Civilian Defence (CSDC)
 * Movement for a Non-violent Alternative (MAN)
 * Nova, Center for Social Innovation (NOVA - CIS)
 * Norwegian Peace Association (NFL)
 * Informational Resource Centre "World Window"
 * CReDO - Resource Centre for Moldovan Human Rights NGO's
 * Joint Committee for Democratisation and Conciliation (JCDC)
 * Vantage Point
 * Government of the Republic of the Philippines
 * Office of the Presidential Advisor to the Peace Process (Philippines)
 * Global Alliance for Ministries and Departments of Peace
 * Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict
 * Balay Mindanaw
 * Pathways to Peace
 * HRIDC, Human Rights Georgia
 * Forum ZFD
 * FOND
 * GAD
 * European Network of Civil Peace Services (EN.CPS)
 * United Network of Young Peacebuilders (UNOY)
 * Cordaid
 * OSCE Mission to Moldova

Contact

 * Web: http://www.patrir.ro/index.php?newlang=english