Partnerships
IPS Partners
On the 15th of December 2005. The Institute for Peace Studies signed a Memorandum of Understanding with UPEACE to cooperate in creating academic programmes, exchanging students and faculty, promoting projects of mutual interest and sharing information and materials.
IPS collaborated with UNESCO in administering the Suzanne Mubarak - UNESCO Japan/Egypt Friendship Research Fellowships for the Empowerment of Women in Peace and Gender Studies by hosting 20 women researchers in 2005 & 2006 who conducted research in several areas related to peace and gender issues.
IPS has cooperated with The Strategic Foresight Group on several projects. It partnered with SFG in organizing an international workshop on "Global Extremism, Terror and Response Strategies" in Alexandria in August 2006 and has translated into Arabic and published the document on the inclusive world project entitled "An Inclusive World in which the West, Islam and the Rest Have a Stake". IPS has also participated in SFG roundtable on "The Cost of Conflict in the Middle East" in Antalia and Zurich in 2008.
Both Greenpeace and IPS co-organized a seminar on "Steps towards a Nuclear Free Middle East" in March 2007 and issued a joint report on the proceedings of the meeting.
The institute has worked closely with the association to co-organize and host the opening sessions of the international conference on "Trauma among Children, Adolescents and the Community" in May 2007.
The institute has hosted and co-organized a simulation of negotiations and a seminar on "Cultural Interaction and the Solutions of Conflicts in the Euro-Mediterranean Area" in collaboration with the Centre for the Analysis of Disputes and their Modes of Settlement (CADMOS), of the University of Paris-Sud in June, 2007.
On the 29th of July, 2007, IPS signed an agreement with The University of Alexandria for cooperation in academic and cultural programs.
IPS partnered with the International Peace Bureau in organizing and hosting the seminar entitled "Books or Bombs? Sustainable Disarmament for Sustainable Development" in November 2007. IPS is also a member of IPB.
IPS and Rotary have signed an agreement of cooperation in the area of training and exchange of expertise in February, 2008.
The institute has signed an MoU with the Protection Project to promote cooperation and exchange of materials and experts in May, 2008.
Focusing on regional problems as an integral part of IPS work, the institute signed an MoU with the Oxford Research Group and held a Consultation workshop on "Increased Understanding of the Regional Impacts of the Various Threats to Global Security and the Implications of Western Responses to those Threats", in October 2008.