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The [[American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus]] (ACPC) is a project of [[Freedom House]] which monitors events in the North Caucasus.<ref>[http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/about About ACPC], American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, accessed 14 June 2010.</ref>

The ACPC was founded in 1999 as the '''American Committee for Peace in Chechnya'''.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060210173217/http://www.peaceinchechnya.org/about.htm About ACPC], American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, accessed 14 June 2010, archived at the Internet Archive 10 February 2006.</ref> Its remit expanded with the spread of conflict into other republics in the North Caucasus – Ingushetia, Dagestan, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia and North Ossetia.<ref>[http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/about About ACPC], American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, accessed 14 June 2010.</ref>

The ACPC is headed by four co-chairs:
::Chaired by former National Security Advisor [[Zbigniew Brzezinski]], former Secretary of State [[Alexander M. Haig, Jr]]. 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. Former Ambassador [[Max M. Kampelman]] is the co-chair emeritus.<ref>[http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/about About ACPC], American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, accessed 14 June 2010.</ref> 

A ''RightWeb'' profile of the committee noted the predominance of conservatives, neoconservatives and liberal interventionists among ACPC members: 

::What's striking about ACPC is that U.S. militarists and neocon strategists are supporting an insurgent movement that is not only nationalist but also largely Islamist. Although ACPC notes its concern about human rights violations by Russia, the committee appears to be more concerned with advancing U.S. geopolitics in this region with respect to Russia and secondarily with China.<ref>RightWeb, [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Committee_for_Peace_in_Chechnya/ American Committee for Peace in Chechnya], 19 April 2005.</ref>

==Activities==
As of 2006, the Centre's website described its activities as follows:
: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 by former [[Keston Institute]] President Lawrence A. Uzzell.<ref>[http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org/about About ACPC], American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, accessed 14 June 2010.</ref> 

== Related Organizations ==
*[[Jamestown Foundation]]
*[[Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty]]
*[[Freedom House]]

== ACPC Members 2006==
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="5" border="1" align="center">
<tr>
<td>[[Morton Abramowitz]]</td>
<td>[[Elliott Abrams]]</td>
<td>[[Kenneth Adelman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Bulent Ali-Reza]]</td>
<td>[[Richard V. Allen]]</td>
<td>[[Audrey L. Alstadt]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Vadim Altskan]]</td>
<td>[[Zeyno Baran]]</td>
<td>[[Antonio L. Betancourt]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[John Bolsteins]]</td>
<td>[[John Brademas]]</td>
<td>[[Zbigniew Brzezinski]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Richard Burt]]</td>
<td>[[John Calabrese]]</td>
<td>[[Eric Chenoweth]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Walter C. Clemens]]</td>
<td>[[Eliot Cohen]]</td>
<td>[[Nicholas Daniloff]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Ruth Daniloff]]</td>
<td>[[Midge Decter]]</td>
<td>[[James S. Denton]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Larry Diamond]]</td>
<td>[[Thomas R. Donahue]]</td>
<td>[[Robert Dujarric]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[John Dunlop]]</td>
<td>[[Charles Fairbanks]]</td>
<td>[[Sandra Feldman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Geraldine A. Ferraro]]</td>
<td>[[Catherine A. Fitzpatrick]]</td>
<td>[[Erwin Friedlander]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Frank Gaffney]]</td>
<td>[[Charles Gati]]</td>
<td>[[Richard Gere]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Douglas Ginsburg]]</td>
<td>[[Paul Goble]]</td>
<td>[[Marshall I. Goldman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Orlando Gutierrez]]</td>
<td>[[Barbara Haig]]</td>
<td>[[Alexander M. Haig, Jr.]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Robert P. Hanrahan]]</td>
<td>[[Paul B. Henze]]</td>
<td>[[Eleanor Herman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Peter J. Hickman]]</td>
<td>[[Norman Hill]]</td>
<td>[[Irving Louis Horowitz]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Glen E. Howard]]</td>
<td>[[Bruce P. Jackson]]</td>
<td>[[Robert Kagan]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Max M. Kampelman]]</td>
<td>[[Thomas Kean]]</td>
<td>[[Mati Koiva]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Guler Koknar]]</td>
<td>[[Harry Kopp]]</td>
<td>[[William Kristol]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Janis Kukainis]]</td>
<td>[[Saulius V. Kuprys]]</td>
<td>[[Kenneth D. S. Lapatin]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Michael A. Ledeen]]</td>
<td>[[Robert J. Lieber]]</td>
<td>[[Seymour M. Lipset]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Robert McFarlane]]</td>
<td>[[Mihajlo Mijajlov]]</td>
<td>[[Bronislaw Misztal]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Joshua Muravchik]]</td>
<td>[[Julia Nanay]]</td>
<td>[[Johanna Nichols]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[William Odom]]</td>
<td>[[P.J. O'Rourke]]</td>
<td>[[Richard Perle]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Richard Pipes]]</td>
<td>[[Norman Podhoretz]]</td>
<td>[[Moishe Pripstein]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Arch Puddington]]</td>
<td>[[Peter Reddaway]]</td>
<td>[[Peter R. Rosenblatt]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[David Saperstein]]</td>
<td>[[Gary Schmitt]]</td>
<td>[[William Schneider]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Alexey Semyonov]]</td>
<td>[[Andrew M. Sessler]]</td>
<td>[[Philip Siegelman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Sophia Sluzar]]</td>
<td>[[Stephen J. Solarz]]</td>
<td>[[Helmut Sonnenfeldt]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Gregory H. Stanton]]</td>
<td>[[S. Frederick Starr]]</td>
<td>[[Leonard R. Sussman]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[Barry Tharaud]]</td>
<td>[[Jack Thomas Tomarchio]]</td>
<td>[[Sinan Utku]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[George Weigel]]</td>
<td>[[Caspar Weinberger]]</td>
<td>[[Curtin Winsor]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>[[R. James Woolsey]]</td>
<td>[[Tatiana Yankelevich]]</td>
<td>[[Jan Nowak]]</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3"><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20060208120725/www.peaceinchechnya.org/about_members.htm Members], American Committee for Peace in Chechnya, archived at the Internet Archive 10 February 2006, accessed 14 June 2010.</ref></td></tr>
</table>
=== Committee Staff ===
*[[Glen E. Howard]], Executive Director 
*[[Michael J. Bradow]], Program Officer

==Contact==
*Website [http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org http://www.peaceinthecaucasus.org]
*Former Website [http://web.archive.org/web/20060208123246/www.peaceinchechnya.org/index.htm /www.peaceinchechnya.org] - via the Internet Archive

==External Resources==
*Rightweb [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/American_Committee_for_Peace_in_Chechnya/ American Committee for Peace in Chechnya], 19 April 2005.

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