TOP IPRA QUOTES TO REMEMBER
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"IPRA is a fascinating place where scholars and practitioners from different disciplines and continents research and try to reconcile competing peaces. IPRA has changed. It was a predominant Western and is now more and more a cosmopolitan association. Turbulence is normal in transformation processes. The next global conference in Sierra Leone in 2016 will encourage us to get out of our comfort zone," Professor Luc Reychler, former IPRA Secretary General in his blog ‘diplomatic thinking’ 2015.
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"When we respond to conflict, we are actually responding to the meanings we make out of it. Social meanings are constructed and disseminated by media, of all kinds. So it is to media, and to journalism – news about conflict – that we need to turn, if we are to create a symbolic climate that is conducive to nonviolent responses, and to exposing and challenging structural and cultural violence. Hence – Peace Journalism", Dr Jake Lynch, former Secretary General of IPRA at the 23RD IPRA conference in Sydney, Australia in July 2010
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"In a fast changing globalized world, our temperament - the way we deal with time -will determine the success or failure of dealing with global crises, sustainable peacebuilding and development. Despite the urgency of handling time more effectively, too much time is wasted and misused. Let’s check our temperament and adapt it for more effective peace work," Professor Luc Reychler, former IPRA Secretary General at the 2014 IPRA conference in Istanbul.
