Meetings.

This article focuses on the inaugural conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) held at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands in July 1965. There were participants from 23 countries representing 19 disciplines. 19 papers were read. The Polemological Institute of the University of Groningen was host to the conference. In addition to sessions for presentation of papers, two business meetings were held. The first was the opening session of the conference, at which secretary-general B.V.A. Roling presided over the election of a conference committee and reviewed the history of IPRA, going back to the meeting in 1963 at Clarens, Switzerland, of scholars of the East and the West concerned with peace research which gave rise to the committee, Conferences on Research on International Peace and Security.