Education
Peace Literacy & Education
Age-inclusive learning programmes that build the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to understand conflict and choose non-violent responses.
Learn MoreECOSOC special consultative status · Since 2021
The Peace and Conflict Science Institute empowers people to become agents of non-violent conflict transformation — in their own lives and in societies at large.
Who We Are
Founded in Stockholm in 2017, the Peace and Conflict Science Institute (PACS Institute) is an independent research and education institution dedicated to peace literacy and the scientific study of conflict.
We bring together research, education, dialogue and data to help individuals, communities and institutions transform conflict without violence and build sustainable, positive peace.
What We Do
Our work spans education, research, data and dialogue — each programme reinforcing the others.
Education
Age-inclusive learning programmes that build the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to understand conflict and choose non-violent responses.
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Research
Applied, evidence-based studies of how conflicts emerge, escalate and can be transformed through dialogue, cooperation and sound institutional design.
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Data & Monitoring
Social indicators and monitoring frameworks that make progress towards peaceful, inclusive societies visible and measurable for decision-makers.
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Capacity Building
Training and facilitation that equip professionals and communities with practical tools for mediation, cooperative dialogue and social cohesion.
Learn MoreSince 2021 the PACS Institute has held special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), enabling us to share independent research and peace literacy expertise with the multilateral system.
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Where We Work
Our geographic scope is international. Together with local partners we run projects and exchanges in Sweden, Mexico, the United States and Costa Rica, always adapting global peace science to local realities.
Home of our Stockholm headquarters and our Nordic peace education programmes.
Community mediation and cooperative dialogue projects with local partners.
Research cooperation on social cohesion and non-violent conflict transformation.
Peace literacy and school-based programmes within regional networks.
Latest Insight
Young people experience conflict early — and often lead the most creative responses. What we learned from dialogues with youth networks about building peaceful, inclusive communities.
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