American Committee for Peace in Chechnya
Founded in 1999, the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is the only private, non-governmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting a peaceful resolution to the separatist insurgency in Chechnya (Second Chechen war).[1][2][3][4] Chaired by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig and former Congressman Stephen J. Solarz, the committee is composed of more than one hundred distinguished Americans representing both major political parties and nearly every walk of life. Based at Freedom House, the Committee's mission encompasses three distinct yet interrelated objectives:
- Advocacy: Developing and promoting policies, through the U.S. government and international institutions, aimed at protecting civilians, improving conditions for refugees and securing a cease-fire;
- Information: Advancing public awareness of the Chechen separatists cause, including its broader implications for democracy, human rights, and regional stability in both Russia and the former Soviet Union; and
- Diplomacy: Convening private "Track II" talks between representatives of the Russian government and Chechen separatists militants, aimed at developing a framework for ending the war and resolving Chechnya's long-term legal and political status.
To those ends, ACPC organizes educational programs for the public, develops policy recommendations for lawmakers and collaborates with an international network of more than 400 activists, journalists, scholars and non-governmental organizations. The Committee distributes Chechnya Today, a daily email news service, and Chechnya Weekly, an online news magazine produced by the Jamestown Foundation and edited until 2004 by Lawrence A. Uzzell.
Related organizations
ACPC members
Morton Abramowitz | Elliott Abrams | Kenneth Adelman |
Bulent Ali-Reza | Richard V. Allen | Audrey L. Alstadt |
Vadim Altskan | Zeyno Baran | Antonio L. Betancourt |
John Bolsteins | John Brademas | Zbigniew Brzezinski |
Richard Burt | John Calabrese | Eric Chenoweth |
Walter C. Clemens | Eliot Cohen | Nicholas Daniloff |
Ruth Daniloff | Midge Decter | James S. Denton |
Larry Diamond | Thomas R. Donahue | Robert Dujarric |
John Dunlop | Charles Fairbanks | Sandra Feldman |
Geraldine A. Ferraro | Catherine A. Fitzpatrick | Erwin Friedlander |
Frank Gaffney | Charles Gati | Richard Gere |
Douglas Ginsburg | Paul A. Goble | Marshall I. Goldman |
Orlando Gutierrez | Barbara Haig | Alexander M. Haig Jr. |
Robert P. Hanrahan | Paul B. Henze | Eleanor Herman |
Peter J. Hickman | Norman Hill | Irving Louis Horowitz |
Glen E. Howard | Bruce P. Jackson | Robert Kagan |
Max M. Kampelman | Thomas Kean | Mati Koiva |
Guler Koknar | Harry Kopp | William Kristol |
Janis Kukainis | Saulius V. Kuprys | Kenneth D. S. Lapatin |
Michael A. Ledeen | Robert J. Lieber | Seymour M. Lipset |
Robert McFarlane | Mihajlo Mijajlov | Bronislaw Misztal |
Joshua Muravchik | Julia Nanay | Johanna Nichols |
William Odom | P.J. O'Rourke | Richard Perle |
Richard Pipes | Norman Podhoretz | Moishe Pripstein |
Arch Puddington | Peter Reddaway | Peter R. Rosenblatt |
David Saperstein | Gary Schmitt | William Schneider |
Alexey Semyonov | Andrew M. Sessler | Philip Siegelman |
Sophia Sluzar | Stephen J. Solarz | Helmut Sonnenfeldt |
Gregory H. Stanton | S. Frederick Starr | Leonard R. Sussman |
Barry Tharaud | Jack Thomas Tomarchio | Sinan Utku |
George Weigel | Caspar Weinberger | Curtin Winsor |
R. James Woolsey | Tatiana Yankelevich | Jan Nowak |
References
- The Way to Chechen Peace by Zbigniew Brzezinski, Alexander M. Haig And Max Kampelman, The Washington Post, June 21, 2002
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2007-04-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- The Chechens American friends by John Laughland, September 8, 2004 The Guardian
- "Foreign Press Centers". United States Department of State. Retrieved 2019-05-29.