The CONSORTIUM FOR LANGUAGE POLICY AND PLANNING is an unincorporated association of a number of research universities, advocacy bodies, and other scholars interested in issues of language policy and planning. Research Universities are those with programs involving several scholars, disciplines, departments, or schools focused (in whole or in part) on research and study of language policy: Arizona State University; Bar-Ilan University (Israel); City University of New York (Graduate Center); Long Island University; New York University; Penn State University; Stanford University; Université de la Haute-Bretagne (Rennes-2, France); the University of Pennsylvania; University of Southhampton (England); University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa; National Institute of Education, Singapore; University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana; University of California LMRI. Individual Scholars are typically located at institutions without established programs, other than their own research interests: Advocacy Bodies are organizations, institutes, centers etc. that may carry out research and/or study language policy, but are primarily devoted to the advocacy of issues surrounding language policy and ethno-linguistic conflict: Language Australia, The National Languages & Literacy Institute of Australia; L'Institut d'Estudis Catalans, The Academy of the Catalan Language, Barcelona. The objectives of the Consortium are to enhance the quality of research, teaching, and information dissemination on the subject of language policy formation and study; to strengthen similarly-oriented programs of its member institutions, and to foster dialogue on the process of language policy formation in situations of ethnic and linguistic conflict in the modern world.