The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is an interdisciplinary research centre at the

Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (, abbreviated IHEID), commonly referred to as Geneva Graduate Institute, is a graduate-level research university in Geneva, Switzerland dedicated to international relations, dev ...

which is housed at the Maison de la paix in

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. The Centre is staffed by several prominent researchers such as: director Keith Krause,

Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou (; 3 April 1968 – 17 September 2024) was a Mauritanian diplomat, political historian and public intellectual. A Harvard University academic, Mohamedou was professor of international history and politics at the Gr ...

, Thomas J. Biersteker, Anna Leander, Jonathan Luke Austin, and Jean-Louis Arcand.

Founding

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) was founded in 2008 by Keith Krause, Thomas J. Biersteker, Ricardo Bocco and

Gilles Carbonnier Gilles Carbonnier is the vice-president of thInternational Committee of the Red Cross(ICRC) and professor of development economics at Geneva’s GraduatInstitute of International and Development Studies(IHIED). Carbonnier is an academic, developme ...

, following the merger of HEI and IUED into the

Expertise

The Centre specifically focuses on research in the following fields: *

Peacebuilding Peacebuilding is an activity that aims to resolve injustice in nonviolent ways and to transform the cultural and structural conditions that generate deadly or destructive conflict. It revolves around developing constructive personal, group, and ...

Armed violence reduction The concept of armed violence reduction (AVR) has gained significant in importance after the 2006 Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development. According to OECD, more than 740,000 people die each year as a result of the violence associated ...

, reconciliation, and the transformation of conflict; *

Community Policing Community policing is a philosophy and organizational strategy whereby law enforcement cooperates with community groups and citizens in producing safety and security. The theory underlying community policing is that it makes citizens more likely t ...

, and informal security provision, particularly in urban settings; *

Security sector reform The concepts of security sector governance and reform (SSG/R, or SSG and SSR) generally refer to a process in Western world, Western-based international development and democratization to amend the national security, security sector of a state towar ...

; *

Critical security studies Critical security studies (CSS) is an academic discipline within security studies which draws on critical theory to revise and, at times, reject the narrow focus of mainstream approaches to security. Similarly to the case of critical internation ...

; * Development, extractive industries and the

political economy Political or comparative economy is a branch of political science and economics studying economic systems (e.g. Marketplace, markets and national economies) and their governance by political systems (e.g. law, institutions, and government). Wi ...

violence Violence is characterized as the use of physical force by humans to cause harm to other living beings, or property, such as pain, injury, disablement, death, damage and destruction. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines violence a ...

External links

Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding official website

References

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