Centre for Peace making, Reconstruction and Equitable Futures
Centre overview:
As peacebuilding and post-conflict reconstruction currently face significant transformation—driven by weakened multilateralism, unpredictable global leadership practices and increasingly protracted conflicts—traditional crisis-response models are under strain. The Centre for Peace making, Reconstruction and Equitable Futures responds to this changing environment by being a hub for rethinking peace, governance under crisis, and reconstruction, linking conceptual innovation with practical engagement.
The Centre builds on Warwick’s strong institutional foundations and established interdisciplinary strengths in PAIS, Education, Psychology, Engineering, Law, Medical Studies and a myriad of other disciplines in this field. Our work is grounded in a commitment to equity and public engagement, involving affected communities directly in research and solution design through participatory, deliberative, as well as ethnographic methods. Particular emphasis is placed on victims’ experiences, transitional justice, education’s role in long-term resilience, and the integration of diplomatic practice with people-centred and inclusive approaches to mediation and institutional design.
Seeking to create impact, the Centre provides both research and impact activities, the latter consisting of a range of educational, advisory, knowledge exchange and policy development activities, building on the insights from our research.
Connect with us:
Prof Gwen van der Velden, Professor of Education - G.Van-der-Velden@warwick.ac.uk
Prof Briony Jones, Professor of Peace & Justice - B.Jones.5@warwick.ac.uk
Prof Neophytos Loizides, Professor of International Conflict Analysis - Neophytos.Loizides@warwick.ac.uk
Please contact any of us for information about the centre, to discuss collaboration or to get engaged. Whether you are involved in academic research or academic impact activity (teaching, advisory work, policy briefing and similar)
