Bradford Non-Lethal Weapons Research Project.

Centre for Conflict Resolution

Conflict Resolution Photo.

For more than a decade the Centre for Conflict Resolution has been at the forefront of developing new ideas about conflict resolution mediation peacekeeping and peacebuilding. It has developed an international reputation for the practical application of these ideas in war zones and communities riven by conflicts, most notably in Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Kosovo and Sri Lanka. This has involved working with warring parties, government agencies, NGOs, regional and international organisations, together with the civilian communities caught up in these conflicts.

In areas of conflict across the world the Centre addresses critical needs in the following areas:

• To understand and address the deep and underlying causes of conflict.
• To support peace constituencies seeking to end the fighting and to bring warring parties to the negotiating table.
• To enhance the roles of UN peacekeeping operations as conflict resolution interventions.
• To work in post conflict situations in order to sustain cultures of peace through peace education and conflict resolution training.

Internal Crisis Management Course.

"Bradford's Centre for Conflict Resolution has a worldwide reputation for its research and practice in supporting peace processes in many of the world's trouble spots" - John Hume, Nobel Peace Prize winner 1998.

CCR staff have research and teaching expertise in the following areas:

• peace and conflict theory;
• peacekeeping and peacebuilding, and particularly the role of UN peacekeeping in conflict resolution;
• memory, history and reconciliation;
• the theory and practice of cooperative learning in peace education;
• education for peace in areas of conflict;
• conflict and conflict resolution in the Middle East;
• radical disagreement and belief systems in conflict;
• and e-learning and ICT in conflict resolution.

The approach of the Centre is to contribute to the development of theories, models and practices of conflict resolution and peace education which assist with the transformation deeply rooted and resistant cultures of violence into cultures of peace.

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