The Medical Peace Work partnership is built on an European network of medical peace organizations and teaching institutions that gathered during The Hague Appeal for Peace Conference in 1999 and the IPPNW World Congress in Paris in the year 2000. It had been supplemented with relevant competence in research and teaching, in accreditation and valorisation of medical curricula and vocational training, and in publishing and technical solutions.

The partnership represents a transnational co-operation between medical peace practitioners, peace and health researchers, teaching institutions, valorisation partners and final users of the project’s outcomes.

The partnership has a flat structure with equitable contribution and responsibility according to the partners’ expertise in medical peace work, development of e-learning, and valorisation of medical teaching material. The use of webfora and partner meetings is central to the project coordination, the development of this new field of expertise and the continuous quality control and self-evaluation. All results and credits in relation to the Medical Peace Work project are shared among the project partners. The coordination of the thematic module development and of other work-packages is decentralized and shared by many partners.

The overall management and administration of the project is carried out by the Centre for International Health, University of Tromsø (Norway).