Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS)

The Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies (ACCS) provides a forum for exchange between academics conducting research on conflict and practitioners engaged in conflict resolution. The Centre brings together two strands of conflict research that were studied holistically when ‘conflict studies’ emerged in the 1960s, but have since separated: research on local, organizational, policy, and other conflicts in developed democracies and research on collective violence, civil war, and massive human rights violations. On both sides, the Centre organizes research and practice initiatives on the factors influencing the development of conflict and on approaches to conflict resolution and peacebuilding.