The Council for Ethnic Accord was organized by PER to advise it on
policies and programs. The Council's members are statesmen and experts
who share the conviction that there are peaceful alternatives to ethnic
conflict; they serve in their individual capacities and do not represent
their countries or institutions. The inaugural meeting of the council was
held in Budapest in December 1992. A committee of the council met at Kona,
Hawaii, in November 1993 to deliberate on means of preventing and resolving
ethnic conflict. The discussion resulted in the formulation of a set of
general principles by which governments may deal with ethnic conflict.
A summary of this discussion has been published by PER as The Kona Statement:
Managing Ethnic Conflict. In September 1997, members of the council,
together with PER's Princeton and overseas staff, met at Antalya, Turkey,
to evaluate PER's first seven years and to plan its future work. The Council
and PER staff held their most recent meeting in Adelboden, Switzerland
in June 1999, where the major topics of discussion and analysis were the
Yugoslav crisis and its long-term effects on interethnic relations throughout
the region.
The members of the council are:
Harry G. Barnes, Jr., Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania
Steven L. Burg, Brandeis University Martin Butora, Institute for Public Affairs, Slovakia
Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University School of Law
Dusan Janjic, Forum for Ethnic Relations, Serbia
Allen H. Kassof, Project on Ethnic Relations Richard
Miles, Former U.S. Ambassador to Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, and Georgia
William W. Pfaff, III, Author and journalist, Paris
Livia B. Plaks, Project on Ethnic Relations
Attila Pok, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Europa Institute
John J. Roberts, American International Group
Alexander G. Rondos, Former Greek Ambassador-at-large
Adrian Severin, Parliament of Romania
Vojislav D. Stanovcic, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Valery A. Tishkov, Russian Academy of Sciences
Elie Wiesel, Boston University
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