International Catalan Institute for Peace

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ICIP [1] (International Catalan Institute for Peace) is a research, dissemination and action organization created by the Parliament of Catalonia in 2007 to promote the culture of peace in Catalan society and internationally and make Catalonia play an active role as an agent of peace in the world.

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ICIP is a public institution, but at the same time, it is independent, with its own legal personality.  It aims to support public administrations, the academic world and civil society and reports to Parliament, the Government and the citizenry.

Organization

ICIP is structured with a working team, [2] and a Governing Board [3] made up of personalities from the peace field (seven chosen by Parliament and three appointed by the Government).

Xavier Masllorens Escubós has been the President of ICIP since July 2016. He is an activist in social movements and a member of the advisory board of Fundesplai. He is also a psychologist and a graduate in Business Administration and Management and Strategic Marketing.

He was previously the president of FundiPau (Foundation for Peace). He was the director of various social third sector organizations: Oxfam-Intermón, Office of the Ombudsperson of Catalonia, Dincat (Intellectual Disability Catalonia) and Education without Borders.

Kristian Herbolzheimer Jeppson works as the Director of ICIP since September 2018.

Herbolzheimer holds a degree in Agriculture Engineering (University of Lleida, 1994) and a Diploma in Peace Culture (Escola de Cultura de Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2001), and he earned a master's degree in International Peacebuilding from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (University of Notre Dame, 2009).

Fields of work

The activity of ICIP is articulated around four areas of work from which the organization of seminars and conferences, publications and different initiatives for the dissemination and promotion of the culture of peace is derived.

The four areas of work are 'Memory, coexistence and reconciliation'; [4] 'Violence in non-war settings'; [5] 'Social and political dialogue'; [6] and 'Alternatives of security'. [7]

ICIP Peace in Progress Award

ICIP has been giving the ICIP Peace in Progress Award every year since 2011 to publicly award and recognize people, entities, or institutions that have worked and contributed prominently and extensively in promoting and constructing peace.

ICIP Governing Board awards the ICIP Peace in Progress Award. It consists of public recognition, a sculpture created by the Nobel Peace Prize winner, artist and activist Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Porta del Sol, and an economic endowment of 6,000 euros.

The award ceremony takes place annually in an institutional ceremony at the Parliament of Catalonia.

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