Peace and Neutrality Alliance
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| Formation | 1996 |
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| Type | NGO |
| Headquarters | Dalkey, Co. Dublin, Ireland |
| Chairman | Roger Cole |
| Website | http://www.pana.ie |
Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA) (Irish: Comhaontas na Síochana is Neodrachta)is a Irish anti-war grouping and a lobby group which campaigns to protect Irish Neutrality. It would have been involved in a number of campaigns such as against the Iraq war, against the use of Shannon Airport by the American forces, against Ireland participating in the NATO linked Western European Union (WEU). [1]
They would also have been involved in campaigns against EU Rapid Reaction Force and European Union treaties which it believed would compromise irish neutrality such as the Amsterdam Treaty, Nice Treaty and the Lisbon Treaty [2]
The chairperson and spokesperson for PANA is the Labour Party member Roger Cole.[3] who would be the face of PANA making contributions and submissions to various Oireachtas Committees such as the National Forum on Europe and the [4].
Rev. Terence McCaughey is the president and former CND spokesman Bruce Kent is an honorary vice-president of PANA.
PANA is supported by a variety of other trade union, religious, pressure and political groups such as Green Party, An Conradh CeilteachSinn Fein, Irish National Congress, Irish Missionary Union, Ionad buail Isteach na Gaeilge, Latin American Solidarity Centre, National Platform, Communist Party of Ireland, Cork Council of Trade Union, Dublin Council of Trade Unions, and Workers' Party of Ireland.
