John Alderdice created ARTIS (Europe) Ltd in 2009 to address violent political conflict and other challenging bio-psycho-social problems. He had been working with colleagues in the World Federation of Scientists on the problem of terrorism post-9/11. At that time Lord Alderdice was the chairman of the WFS Permanent Monitoring Panel on the Motivation for Terrorism and worked closely with Professor Dick Garwin who was the chairman of the sister PMP - the Permanent Monitoring Panel on the Mitigation of Terrorism. It was decided to take the work forward by establishing corporate entities - ARTIS International, based in the USA and ARTIS Europe in the UK. They continue to collaborate closely, and with their global networks of colleagues, in addressing long-standing disturbed, historic, community relationships.
This led to the establishment of a series of Conferences on the Resolution of Intractable Conflict (CRIC) held annually since 2014 at Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford.
The recent formation of The Concord Foundation is bringing these activities together with other related work on understanding and resolving religious divisions and violent political conflict.
