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Sweden
Department of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University is one of the world's oldest and most influential centres for peace research, founded in 1971. It is home to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP), the leading global provider of data on organised violence, and conducts research on the causes and dynamics of armed conflict, conflict resolution and peacebuilding alongside education from bachelor to doctoral level.
Life & Peace Institute
The Life & Peace Institute (LPI) is an international centre for nonviolent conflict transformation founded in 1985 and based in Uppsala. LPI works with local partners in the Horn of Africa and the Great Lakes region, supporting community-based peacebuilding, dialogue processes and civil society capacity, and connecting local experience to national, regional and international policy through research and advocacy.
Switzerland
Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue
The Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue (HD) is a private diplomacy organisation founded in 1999 and based in Geneva. HD helps to prevent, mitigate and resolve armed conflict through dialogue and mediation, working discreetly with conflict parties around the world. Its work ranges from local ceasefires and humanitarian access negotiations to support for national peace processes.
Interpeace
Interpeace is an international organisation for peacebuilding headquartered in Geneva, initially established by the United Nations in 1994. Interpeace supports locally led peacebuilding initiatives in over twenty countries, grounded in the principle that peace cannot be imported from the outside but must grow from within societies. It also works to make international assistance more supportive of peace through its policy and learning work.
SwissPeace
We are a practice and research institute dedicated to advancing effective peacebuilding. Partnerships with local and international actors are at the core of our work. Together, we combine expertise and creativity to reduce violence and promote peace in contexts affected by conflicts.
Thailand
Deep South Watch
Deep South Watch is a Pattani-based centre that monitors and documents the conflict in Thailand's southern border provinces. It maintains a database of violent incidents, publishes analysis in Thai and English, and supports peace dialogue and civil society participation in the southern Thailand peace process.
Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies (IHRP), Mahidol University
The Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies at Mahidol University in Salaya, near Bangkok, is a leading academic centre for human rights and peace education in Southeast Asia. It offers master's and doctoral programmes in human rights and peace studies and conducts research and training on conflict transformation, peacebuilding and human rights in the region.
Uganda
Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE)
The Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) is a Ugandan non-profit organisation founded in 1995 that promotes alternative and creative means of preventing, managing and resolving conflict. Working across Uganda, the Great Lakes region and the Horn of Africa, CECORE empowers communities, especially women and youth, through peace education, dialogue and mediation, advocacy and capacity building, and serves as regional secretariat for GPPAC Eastern and Central Africa.
United Kingdom
The Edinburgh Peace Institute
The Edinburgh Peace Institute advances a human needs approach to peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding. We achieve this through educational training, research, and mediation, as we advocate for peaceful relations, and human needs, with and between, political, social, humanitarian, and religious actors in conflict. In a complex conflict world, we have to ethically balance, the sacred and scientific worlds. We engage enlightenment principles of verification in our research approach, to open up a discussion for peace.
Academi Heddwch Cymru
Academi Heddwch is Wales’ first ‘peace institute’ – and one among a global family of research institutes bringing together the best academic minds and expertise to build a better world through peace-rooted approaches to global challenges. Academi Heddwch aims to extend Wales’ long-standing tradition of peace-making and peace-promotion, by developing and coordinating an independent community of researchers in related fields. Funded through Welsh Government, Academi Heddwch works to place peace firmly on Wales’ national agenda, as well as on the international stage through working with an existing global network of peace institutes.