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Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

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Formation
  
2008 (2008)

Location
  
Maison de la paix

Headquarters
  
Geneva

Director
  
Keith Krause

Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Founders
  
Thomas J. Biersteker, Keith Krause, Ricardo Bocco, Gilles Carbonnier

Fields
  
Peacebuilding, Community policing, Security sector reform

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies which is housed at the Maison de la paix in Geneva. The Centre is staffed by several prominent researchers such as: director Keith Krause, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Thomas J. Biersteker, and Jean-Louis Arcand.

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Founding

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) was founded in 2008 by Keith Krause, Thomas J. Biersteker, Ricardo Bocco and Gilles Carbonnier, following the merger of HEI and IUED into the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Expertise

The Centre specifically focuses on research in the following fields:

  • Peacebuilding, Armed violence reduction, reconciliation, and the transformation of conflict;
  • Community Policing, and informal security provision, particularly in urban settings;
  • Security sector reform;
  • Critical security studies;
  • Development, extractive industries and the political economy of violence.

    • References

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