Description: The International Peace Research Association (IPRA) will hold its 22nd biennial conference on the theme of “Towards sustainable peace and development” at the University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, July 15-19, 2008. Among IPRA’s commissions and working groups is the Peace History Commission (PHC), which scholars interested in peace research in history founded at the IPRA conference in Valleta, Malta, in 1994. The PHC seeks to bring historical perspective to public understanding of the causes and consequences of conflict and of various past alternative peace programs and strategies advanced by citizens, diplomats, and governmental leaders. It has organized panels at many IPRA meetings. More information on the Leuven meeting is at www.ipra2008.org. The PHC will consider all subjects involving questions of war and peace and taking a historical approach. Send inquiries and proposals by e-mail to Dr. David S. Patterson at: david.patterson@aya.yale.edu. As PHC convener, he will coordinate proposals for papers and panels with the Peace History Commission and the IPRA secretariat.