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The International Co-operative Alliance will support efforts by Canadian co-op historian Ian MacPherson to establish an institute to study the role co-operatives play in fostering peace and social cohesion.
Professor MacPherson and Yehudah Paz, founder of Israel’s Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development, have been working together on the creation of the Co-operative Institute for the Promotion of Peace and Social Cohesion.
The Institute, which would report to the ICA board and the General Assembly, would serve both as a framework for the development of programs related to co-operatives and peace and as a focal point for thinking, research and analysis.
The resolution to support the establishment of the institute was sponsored by the Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA), Co-operatives Israel and the Japanese Consumers’ Co-operative Union.
Earlier in the week, Professor MacPherson and CCA Vice-President Jill Kelly, who spoke in favour of the resolution at the General Assembly, led a workshop on co-ops and peace for participants in the Cancun meeting.
Source: CCA
