About Us

The Consortium for Peace Studies (CPS) is housed in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary and represents a wide range of like minded individuals working towards the goal of reinvigorating peace education in Calgary. The CPS sets out to not only promote peace locally, nationally and internationally - but to develop a research and community education program centered on community peace. The CPS is largely comprised of professors, business professionals, medical practitioners and community advocates devoted to increasing the awareness of paths to peace.

Goal: Our primary goal is to promote, encourage and advance peace research and peace work locally and globally. We achieve this goal through a speakers' series, conferences, publications, celebrations of peace and peace workers, a peace research program and a peace resource database. Short term the CPS strives to work with the academic and activist communities in Calgary to raise awareness of barriers to peace and the functional solutions through public events, while launching an interdisciplinary research program on campus. Long term the CPS is working to establish a Centre for Peace Studies on the University of Calgary campus and to develop further academic programming in Peace Studies.

Mission: The CPS is dedicated to reducing the human and environmental cost of violence through outstanding scholarship, applied research and education in peace studies, which create partnerships for a secure, healthy and creative global environment.

Vision: To make innovative contributions to peace studies locally and globally.

Within the broad mandate of Peace Studies, our interdisciplinary team has identified five streams of interest on campus, streams on which we will base our emerging Peace Studies Program:  The Role of Civil Society in Peacebuilding; Peace Education Curriculum Design; The link between Sustainable Development and Peace;  Prevention of Violent Conflict; and Defining a Healthy Global Community.

For  more information please contact the Consortium for Peace Studies at:

Telephone: +1 (403) 220-2136 or Email: peaceuc@ucalgary.ca