Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution Appointment of Three Members.

The President has appointed three persons as members of the Commission on Proposals for the National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution. They are:

ARTHUR H. BARNES, president of the New York Urban Coalition and vice president of the Institute for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, a private, nonprofit organization that mediates community disputes and teaches the techniques of mediation, negotiation, and arbitration;

ELISE BOULDING, a professor of sociology at the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado, an expert, lecturer, and writer in the field of peace research;

JAMES HOWARD LAUE, director of the Center for Metropolitan Studies at the University of Missouri—St. Louis, an expert in the field of conflict resolution, especially as it applies to community conflict of all types.

This Commission was created by Public Law 95-561 on November 1, 1978, to determine the feasibility of establishing a National Academy of Peace and Conflict Resolution to assist the Federal Government in accomplishing the goal of promoting international peace.