Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies St Andrews
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) promotes interdisciplinary research and teaching in a collegial environment, analysing and investigating processes of conflict and conflict resolution in the construction of long term peace. CPCS develops academic knowledge of peace and conflict grounded in the experiences of people, places and history. It facilitates dialogue between individuals, groups or communities who are concerned with conditions of positive peace, with reference to interpersonal relationships, community relations, within organisations and nations, or relative to international relations.
Our research is conducted across a range of geographic spaces that includes Sub-Saharan Africa, Central and East Europe, Central Asia, China and Latin America. We analyse the complex issues facing the global milieu of peace and conflict using a variety of conflict resolution, social justice, and peace studies tools, processes, and methods. Research expertise includes:
Children and Youth in conflict
Psychological dimensions of peace and conflict
Civil Resistance and Local Level Peacebuilding
History, Memory, Violence and Trauma
Solidarity and Peace
The Political Economy of Conflict
Conflict Resolution
Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reintegration
Security Sector Reform
Reconciliation and Reconstruction
Genocide and Human Rights
State Crime
Sectarian and Intercommunal Violence
International Security
We have partnerships with other Centres around the globe that includes the Kosovo Institute for Peace (KIP); Centre for Small States, Iceland; African Network Against Illiteracy, Conflicts and Human Rights Abuse (ANICHRA), Cameroon; The Observatory for Collective Action and Social Movements, Colombia; and the Coalition of Work With Psychotrauma and Peace (CWWPP), Croatia.
Members of the Centre have obtained research funding from the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland, British Academy, the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Russell Trust, the World Peace Foundation and the European Commission's Framework VII programme.