Peace and conflict studies can be defined as the inter-disciplinary inquiry into war as human condition and peace as human potential, as an alternative to the traditional Polemology (War Studies) and the strategies taught at Military academies. Important aims are: Prevention, deescalation, and solution of international conflicts; Prevention of war. Disciplines involved may include Political Sciences, Sociology, Psychology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, Women's Studies, and Indigenous Studies, as well as a variety of others. A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal. ... A military academy is a military educational institution. ... Niccolò Machiavelli, ca 1500, became the key figure in realistic political theory, crucial to political science Political Science is the systematic study of the allocation and transfer of power in decision making. ... Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Auguste Rodins The Thinker, bronze cast by Alexis Rudier, Laeken Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. ... Wikimedia Commons has media related to: History For other senses of this word, see history (disambiguation). ... Anthropology (from the Greek word άνθρωπος, human or person) consists of the study of humanity (see genus Homo). ... Religious studies is the multi-disciplinary, secular study of religion. ... With stylus and tablet, an upper-class Pompeiian, Sappho, demonstrates her privilege: literacy Womens studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to topics concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. ...

The first institute in Europe especially dedicated to Peace and Conflict studies was Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI in Sweden. The Old town in Stockholm from the air (help· info) is the capital of Sweden, located on the east coast at the entrance of lake Mälaren. ... Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) was founded in 1966 to commemorate 150 years of unbroken peace in Sweden. ...

External links

• Peaceworkers UK UK NGO offering trainings for potential civilian Peaceworkers
• Big Picture TV free video clips of father of peace studies, Johan Galtung,
• Center for Justice and Peacebuilding of Eastern Mennonite University,
• Central Connecticut State University, Department of Peace Studies,
• Center for Peacemaking and Conflict Studies at Fresno Pacific University,
• University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies,
• Goshen College, Peace, Justice and Conflict Studies Program
• King's College London, University of London, Department of War Studies,
• Swarthmore College, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies,
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute,
• Coventry University's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies,
• EPU in Stadtschlaining Austria.
• University of Innsbruck, Program in Peace, Development, Security and International Conflict Transformation.
• University of Toronto, Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.
• For more information on peace studies scholarship, check out Common Knowledge, a fiery journal that addresses all sides, at http://commonknowledge.dukejournals.org/!

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