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Director: Slađana
Đurić, Ph.D., assistant professor
The Conflict Research Center was
formed as an interdisciplinary research unit within the Faculty of Security
Studies. Its basic purpose is to conduct comparative analyses of conflicts and
their successful resolution. Its aim is to encourage more members of the academic
community to take part in conflict research and to support this process through
seminars, conventions, publishing, inviting guest experts and establishing
cooperation with other institutions.
Its aim is to
promote a multidisciplinary discussion on contemporary conflicts in societies,
cultures and political entities and to provide feedback on the results of its
research useful to peacebuilding in practice. General topics and issues of
interest to research in the Center are changes introduced peacefully, conflict
resolution, conflict prevention, post-agreement peacebuilding
and issues specific to the region of the Southern Balkans. Taking this
approach, the activities of the Center will include reporting, supervision,
data gathering, research and examination, training and capacity building and
executive tasks. The Center was formed because our students were interested in
the causes of war and organized violence, as well as for the conditions
necessary to achieve global peace and human solidarity.
The Goals of the
Center are:
- to expand the knowledge on the
most successful ways to prevent conflicts, on conflict management and reconciliation
and the skill of peacebuilding;
- to analyze the problem of
violence, violence reduction and conflict resolution at different levels
of society and human co-existence and to seek ways to eliminate structural
violence as a consequence of institutions and processes which degrade the
material and spiritual quality of human life and the environment;
- to analyze conflicts in an
interdisciplinary and multi-layered way;
- to increase public understanding
of the nature of international conflicts, their dynamics and the
prevention of serious conflicts;
- to develop a more analytic and
effective peacebuilding process;
- to provide information on the politics
and practice of conflicts and highlight the goal of achieving of secure
and sustainable peace;
- to improve conflict management and
resolution by combining research, training and other activities which
provide information to national and international organizations dealing
with conflicts;
- to enable undergraduate and
graduate students to gain insight into intellectual and practical skills
necessary for peace analysis and peacebuilding, which they can then apply
in the society in their future work places;
- to provide education and relevant
skills for conflict mediation in different circumstances;
- to improve peace promotion,
management and non-violent resolution of international conflicts and to
draw specific lessons which will promote reconciliation and the
surmounting of obstacles;
- to examine the relation among the
notions of justice, reconciliation and co-existence and to further the
studying and understanding of international crises and the cases of civil
rights violations;
- to promote the understanding of
the sources of conflict and violence in the international system,
important conditions for peace, strategies to overcome poverty and
marginalization;
- to connect practice with academic
analyses and, therefore, to be firmly rooted in the experience gained in
this field;
- to undertake proper activities for
peacebuilding in conflicts and potential conflicts;
- to set up a network of influential
analysts and policy-makers who would contribute to the research and
discussions of the Center by providing information and presenting global
trends.
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