Belgium

UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace(770), established in 2007 at The Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium)

 

Fields / Disciplines Peace, sustainable development. Objectives The purpose of the Chair shall be to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation in the field of building sustainable peace. It will serve as a means of facilitating collaboration between high-level, internationally recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe and North America, and in other regions of the world. The purpose of this Chair shall also be: (1) to advance multidisciplinary research into the conditions for building sustainable peace, and the causes of war and other forms of violence; (2) to promote worldwide cooperation designed to assist the advancement of peace research, in particular, to promote studies and teaching related to the pursuit of sustainable world peace; (3) to encourage worldwide dissemination of results of peace research. Host Institution The Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)Website UNESCO Chair in Building Sustainable Peace webpage UNESCO Sector / Office responsible for the Chair/Network Social and Human Sciences