Founded in 1999, the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya is the only private, non-governmental organization in North America exclusively dedicated to promoting the peaceful resolution of the Second Chechen war

Second Chechen War

The Second Chechen War, in a later phase better known as the War in the North Caucasus, was launched by the Russian Federation starting 26 August 1999, in response to the Invasion of Dagestan by the Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade ....

 
http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=409&issue_id=3337

http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/62659.pdf. Chaired by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981....

, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig and former Congressman Stephen J. Solarz

Stephen J. Solarz

Stephen Joshua Solarz was a United States Congressional Representative from New York. Solarz was both an outspoken critic of President Ronald Reagan's deployment of Marines to Lebanon in 1982 and a cosponsor of the 1991 Gulf War Authorization Act during the Presidency of George H. W...

, 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

Freedom House

Freedom House is an international non-governmental organization based in Washington, D.C. that conducts research and advocacy on democracy, political freedom and human rights...

, 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 war, 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 resistance 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.

In keeping with its mandate to be an independent resource for the public and a good-faith arbiter for the warring parties, the committee does not accept financial assistance from the governments of Chechnya or Russia, or from private for-profit corporation with investments in the former Soviet Union.

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ACPC members

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Vadim Altskan	Zeyno Baran Zeyno Baran Zeyno Baran is a Turkish American scholar on issues ranging from US-Turkey relations to Islamist ideology to energy security in Europe and Asia. She is the Director of the Center for Eurasian Policy and a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, a think tank located in Washington D.C....	Antonio L. Betancourt
John Bolsteins	John Brademas John Brademas John Brademas is an American politician and educator originally from Indiana. He served as Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives for the Democratic Party from 1977 to 1981 at the conclusion of a twenty-year career as a member of the United States House of Representatives...	Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Brzezinski Zbigniew Kazimierz Brzezinski is a Polish American political scientist, geostrategist, and statesman who served as United States National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981....
Richard Burt Richard Burt Richard R. Burt is an American businessman and diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Germany and was a chief negotiator of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty. Prior to his diplomatic career, Burt worked as director of a non-governmental organization and was a correspondent for the New...	John Calabrese	Eric Chenoweth
Walter C. Clemens	Eliot Cohen	Nicholas Daniloff Nicholas Daniloff Nicholas Daniloff is an American journalist who graduated from Harvard University and was most prominent in the 1980s for his reporting on the Soviet Union...
Ruth Daniloff	Midge Decter Midge Decter -Biography:Midge Rosenthal Decter was born on July 25, 1927 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She attended the University of Minnesota, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and New York University....	James S. Denton James S. Denton James Denton is the publisher and editor of World Affairs and Demokratizatsiya, and the director of ] in Washington, D.C. Previously Denton was the executive director of Heldref Publications, founded by the late Jeane J...
Larry Diamond Larry Diamond Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is presently a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a conservative policy think tank...	Thomas R. Donahue Thomas R. Donahue Thomas Reilly Donahue was Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995 and served briefly as its acting President during the second half of 1995.- Early life :...	Robert Dujarric
John Dunlop John Thomas Dunlop John Thomas Dunlop was a U.S. administrator and labor scholar.He was the Secretary of Labor between 1975 and 1976. He was also Director of the U.S. Cost of Living Council from 1973–1974, Chairman of the U.S.Commission on the Future of Worker/Management Relations from 1993–1995 and arbitrator and...	Charles Fairbanks	Sandra Feldman Sandra Feldman Sandra Feldman was an American civil rights activist, educator and labor leader who served as president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1997 to 2004.-Early life:...
Geraldine A. Ferraro	Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Catherine A. Fitzpatrick Catherine Ann "Cathy" Fitzpatrick , also known under her virtual worlds pseudonym "Prokofy Neva", is an American human rights activist, Russian-English translator, journalist, blogger on human rights issues, Russia and virtual worlds, anti-communist, and critic of the open source movement. She has...	Erwin Friedlander Erwin Friedlander Erwin Max Friedlander was a noted American expert in high-energy nuclear physics at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences.- Biography :...
Frank Gaffney Frank Gaffney Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. is the founder and president of the American Center for Security Policy, columnist at the Washington Times, blogger at Big Peace and radio host on Secure Freedom Radio....	Charles Gati	Richard Gere Richard Gere Richard Tiffany Gere is an American actor. He began acting in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar, and a starring role in Days of Heaven. He came to prominence in 1980 for his role in the film American Gigolo, which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol...
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Orlando Gutierrez	Barbara Haig	Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
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Peter J. Hickman	Norman Hill Norman Hill Norman Hill is an influential African-American administrator, activist and labor leader. He attended Haverford College in Pennsylvania and received a bachelor’s degree in 1956 in the field of sociology. He was one of the first African-Americans to graduate from Haverford. After college, Hill...	Irving Louis Horowitz Irving Louis Horowitz Irving Louis Horowitz is an American sociologist, author and college professor who has written and lectured extensively in his field.-Personal Life:Horowitz was born in New York City on September 25, 1929, to Louis and Esther Tepper Horowitz...
Glen E. Howard	Bruce P. Jackson	Robert Kagan Robert Kagan Robert Kagan is an American historian and foreign policy commentator.-Early life and education:Kagan graduated from Yale University in 1980 where he was tapped by Skull and Bones, studied history, and founded the Yale Political Monthly. He later earned an MPP from the John F...
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Guler Koknar	Harry Kopp	William Kristol William Kristol William Kristol is an American neoconservative political analyst and commentator. He is the founder and editor of the political magazine The Weekly Standard and a regular commentator on the Fox News Channel....
Janis Kukainis	Saulius V. Kuprys	Kenneth D. S. Lapatin
Michael A. Ledeen	Robert J. Lieber	Seymour M. Lipset
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Joshua Muravchik Joshua Muravchik Joshua Muravchik is a scholar formerly at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research and now a fellow at the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University....	Julia Nanay	Johanna Nichols Johanna Nichols Linguist Johanna Nichols is a professor emerita on active duty in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include the Slavic languages, the linguistic prehistory of northern Eurasia, language typology, ancient linguistic...
William Odom	P.J. O'Rourke	Richard Perle Richard Perle Richard Norman Perle is an American political advisor, consultant, and lobbyist who began his career in government, a senior staff member to Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson on the Senate Armed Services Committee in the 1970’s...
Richard Pipes Richard Pipes Richard Edgar Pipes is an American academic who specializes in Russian history, particularly with respect to the Soviet Union...	Norman Podhoretz Norman Podhoretz Norman B. Podhoretz is an American neoconservative pundit and writer for Commentary magazine.-Early life:The son of Julius and Helen Podhoretz, Jewish immigrants from the Central European region of Galicia, Podhoretz was born and raised in Brownsville, Brooklyn...	Moishe Pripstein
Arch Puddington	Peter Reddaway	Peter R. Rosenblatt
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Alexey Semyonov	Andrew M. Sessler	Philip Siegelman
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Gregory H. Stanton	S. Frederick Starr S. Frederick Starr Stephen Frederick Starr is the founder and Chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute. He is also a noted musician.-Academic career:...	Leonard R. Sussman
Barry Tharaud	Jack Thomas Tomarchio	Sinan Utku
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R. James Woolsey	Tatiana Yankelevich	Jan Nowak Jan Nowak-Jezioranski Jan Nowak-Jeziorański was a Polish journalist, writer, politician, social worker and patriot. He served during the Second World War as one of the most notable resistance fighters of the Home Army...

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