CIRP History and Mission
Founded in 1944 to advise APA on the rehabilitation of psychological laboratories and libraries in post-World War II Europe, the Committee on International Relations in Psychology
(CIRP) is responsible for developing contact between psychologists in the United States and their colleagues abroad. The Committee's mission is to:
- encourage and support the free circulation of psychologists and of psychological ideas and information;
- promote and assist attendance at international meetings and conferences; promote exposure to world psychological literature;
- support programs of international exchange of psychologists at all levels of academic and professional training; promote inclusion of an international perspective in the teaching of psychology at all educational levels;
- increase sensitivity to cultural and linguistic variance at all levels of academic and professional training; encourage the advancement of psychological knowledge that is relevant to international affairs and to encourage the application of that knowledge to the formulation of policy in international affairs;
- monitor within the international context and take action in cases involving infringements of the rights of psychologist or abuse of psychological knowledge and techniques wherever these may occur, consistent with APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and
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with the Resolution Concerning Professional Ethics in Psychology (1976) of the International Union of Psychological Science, and apply psychological knowledge to the alleviation of psychological suffering attendant upon abuses of human rights;
- initiate and maintain communication with international and regional organizations of psychologists, and with other national societies of psychology;
- and assess organizations of psychologists with other national and international associations of psychologists.
CIRP is also responsible for naming the annual recipient of the APA Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology, and oversees nominations for the International Humanitarian Award.
The Committee consists of eleven members, nine to be elected, each for a term of three years, and two to serve ex officio. Ex officio members include the APA chief executive officer and one designee of the United States National Committee/International Union of Psychological Science
(USNC/IUPsyS), who is an APA member.
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