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ॐ सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः, सर्वे सन्तु निरामयाः । सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु, मा कश्चिद्दुःखभाग्भवेत् । ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥


 - Peace studies used to be taught as a part of political science, international relations, anthropology etc.

It gained a wide attention after two world war, after 1950s, peace research and peace activism started in different parts of Europe and northern America.

Peace research started by different scholars on their own efforts 

Peace research was institutionalized after the establishment of Peace research institute of Oslo (PRIO), Swedish International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). 

Introduced as programs in Uppsala university in 1971 and Gothenberg University in 1978.

Uppsala university also started UCDP and started making a conflict database.

Got more popular in 1980s

Different universities in the world started to introduce conflict studies as a separate discipline.

Until now more than 200 universities have introduced conflict studies

Johan galtung (Father of peace studies)


John Paul Lederach, John Burton, Peter Wallestein, Jan Oberg (leading scholars)

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