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What is Peace and Conflict Studies

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances — Mahatma Gandhi. Peace and conflict studies is a social science field that identifies and analyzes violent and nonviolent behaviors as well as the structural mechanisms attending conflicts (including social conflicts), with a view towards…

Conflict Barometer 2021

With the 30th edition of the Conflict Barometer, the HIIK continues its annual series of reports covering political conflicts worldwide. The global political conflict panorama in 2021 was marked by an ongoing high number of highly violent conflicts. The number of wars decreased from 21 to 20 while the number of limited wars increased from…

Event: Middle East Strategy Forum 2022

The Institute for Peace & Diplomacy (IPD) is going to host its second annual Middle East Strategy Forum (MESF 2022) on May 11–12, 2022 in Ottawa, Canada. Over 250 foreign policy and defence professionals, diplomats, lawmakers and bureaucrats, think-tankers and business leaders are expected to attend this 2-day conference at Delta Hotel in downtown Ottawa….

Released: ACLED 2021 – The Year in Review

ACLED’s 2021 annual report reviews the past year of data on political violence and demonstration activity around the world. Few conflicts ended in 2021, and many intensified. Overall levels of political violence remained steady, while its lethality surged to new heights. Civilians bore the brunt, with increases in both violence targeting civilians and civilian fatalities….

Conflict and Peacebuilding in the contemporary Middle East

Hamed Kazemzadeh Protracted conflict has locked Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Yemen into cycles of violence. These conflicts have fractured relationships within and between communities, and undermined social cohesion. They are both localized in parts of a country and have also created regional and international spillovers that draw in multiple regional and global actors with different…

Event: HIIK’s Methodological Approach to Conflict Research

Saint Paul University Student Association (SPUSA) and Academic Club for Peace-Conflict Studies (ACPCS) are pleased to host Mr. Mostafa Bostani at the monthly seminar on Theoretical & Practical Aspects of Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: HIIK’s Methodological Approach to Conflict Research:West Asian Conflicts Analysis in 2020 Speaker:Mostafa BostaniHead of the Working Group – Wast Asia, North…

Event: Caucasus & Ethnopolitical Conflicts; Nagorno-Karabakh

Saint Paul University Student Association (SPUSA) and Academic Club for Peace-Conflict Studies (ACPCS) are pleased to host Dr. Babak Rezvani at the monthly seminar on Theoretical & Practical Aspects of Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: Caucasus & Ethnopolitical Conflicts; Nagorno-Karabakh Speaker:Dr. Babak RezvaniChairman of Association for the Study of EthnoGeoPolitics – Netherlands Moderator:Josh NadeauStudent of MA…

Israel-Palestine; Roadblocks on the Path to Peace

This week the Biden administration has been busy unveiling its new “road map” for a Mideast peace to Israelis, Palestinians and other nations. It is an exhaustive document that has a little of everything except what is needed most: a detailed blueprint of a comprehensive political settlement and a realistic, internationally monitored way of getting there….

Event: Pluralism & Conflict Studies

Saint Paul University Student Association (SPUSA) and Academic Club for Peace-Conflict Studies (ACPCS) are pleased to host Ms. Meredith Preston McGhie at the monthly seminar on Theoretical & Practical Aspects of Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention: Pluralism & Conflict StudiesSpeaker:Meredith Preston McGhieSecretary-General at Global Centre for Pluralism, OttawaMay 12, 2021 – at 4 p.m The academic…

Pioneering peace pathways

Encouraging conflict parties to engage in dialogue is core to peace promotion. This policy brief, which accompanies Accord 29 ‘Pioneering peace pathways’ suggests three ways to initiate inclusive and sustainable peace processes. Initiating peace processes is hard to do – and not easy to document or analyse. Formative dialogue initiatives are largely informal, opaque and…

North Korea Conflict

In early 2018, North and South Korea began a diplomatic rapprochement, and North Korean officials attended the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. On April 27, a week after announcing that North Korea would freeze weapons and missile testing, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un stepped across the border into South Korea for a summit with South…