Peace and conflict studies can be defined as the inter-disciplinary inquiry into war as human condition and peace as human potential, as an alternative to the traditional Polemology (War Studies) and the strategies taught at Military academies. Important aims are: Prevention, deescalation, and solution of international conflicts; Prevention of war. Disciplines involved may include Political Sciences, Sociology, Psychology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Women's Studies, and Indigenous Studies, as well as a variety of others.

The first institute in Europe especially dedicated to Peace and Conflict studies was SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) in Sweden.

See also

• Democratic peace theory

External links

• Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway
• United States Institute of Peace Website
• The Peace Alliance Campaign for a US Department of Peace
• International People's Initiative for Departments of Peace
• Peaceworkers UK UK NGO offering trainings for potential civilian Peaceworkers
• Big Picture TV free video clips of father of peace studies, Johan Galtung,
• Center for Justice and Peacebuilding of Eastern Mennonite University,
• Central Connecticut State University, Department of Peace Studies,
• Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University,
• University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies,
• Goshen College, Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Program
• King's College London, University of London, Department of War Studies,
• Swarthmore College, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies,
• United Nations University for Peace
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,
• Coventry University's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies,
• EPU in Stadtschlaining Austria.
• University of Innsbruck, Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation.
• University of Toronto, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.
• The Centre for Peace Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• Common Knowledge, a journal that addresses multiple issues in peace studies scholarship
• ^* Centre for Conflict Studies, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Nonviolence | Peace studies | Political science

Friedensforschung | 平和学 | Polemologie | Fred og Konflikt Studier