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The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies aims to establish and maintain a forum committed to advancing critical theoretical, conceptual and empirical understandings of the development of responses to conflict and the construction of peace. In particular it aims to interrogate the relationship between conflict and the forms of 'peace' being created in conflict zones mainly in the developing world today. The expertise of the Centre's members ranges across peace and conflict theory, children in conflict, peacebuilding, the IPE of African conflicts (and the attempted construction of the liberal state in Africa), terrorism and conflict theory, UN Peace Operations and state-building, ethnicity, and the role of organisations such as the UN, World Bank, EU, and OAU, and of other major donors in conflict zones around the world. Geographical expertise covers Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, and Uganda, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and East Timor, the Balkans, Turkey and Cyprus.

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