Peace Studies

• Our Courses
• Why Study at Bradford?
• Research
• Contact and Find Us
• Rotary Peace Center
  • The Programme
  • Curriculum
  • The Faculty
  • Alumni Achievements
  • The Purpose of Rotary Peace Centers
  • Eligibility Criteria & Application Process
• Quaker Peace Studies Trust
• Peace Jam
• Our Staff

The Faculty

Our Faculty is highly skilled, remarkably diverse and very experienced in both research and teaching. All have research degrees and 19 have doctorates, including eleven full professors. Faculty are drawn from Britain, Ireland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Sierra Leone and many have direct personal experience of conflict and its resolution in many parts of the world. Faculty are involved in mediation and related training in a number of counties including Bosnia, Kosovo, Uganda, Sri Lanka, and Northern Ireland, and many have worked in a number of countries before joining the Faculty at Bradford. A number of members of the Faculty have a high public profile, with extensive academic publications paralleled by frequent radio and TV interviews. Faculty regularly contribute to the BBC World Service, BBC World TV, Radio France International, and networks in the United States, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, South Africa, Singapore, Australia and New Zealand.

Resources

The Department of Peace Studies collaborates closely with numerous nongovernmental organisations, including the UNA, Oxfam, Saferworld, the British American Security Information Council, and International Alert. Staff and postgraduate students work with these and other organisations, and there is also a close relationship with community mediation groups.

The University Library has 500,000 volumes and takes 2,400 periodical titles. It houses the unique Commonweal Collection on peaceful social change with its excellent Gandhian collection, and there are specialist libraries on international development, conflict resolution, and international security. The National Lending Library, part of the British Library, is at Boston Spa, just 20 miles from Bradford.

Bradford has been a UK pioneer in information technology provision in universities. Student rooms in Halls of Residence have information technology connections, and, in addition to the Department's own graduate computer room, the university provides free access to Pentium-level PC clusters available 24 hours a day for all registered students. There is comprehensive provision of information technology training for students.