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The Malaviya Centre for Peace Research (MCPR) was established in 1998 as an interdisciplinary centre of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Banaras Hindu University. Sanctioned initially by the UGC during the VIII Five Year Plan, the Centre has recorded an impressive progress and has acquired an international reputation. Deriving expertise from diverse disciplines of Social Sciences, particularly Political Science and International Relations, the MCPR offers research and policy inputs, helpful to public policy makers and others concerned with the management and resolution of conflict. In addition, the MCPR aims to elicit, and analyze data on various types of conflict both intra-state and inter-state, which could feed on researches in allied disciplines of social sciences.

 Thus the mission of the MCPR is to wedge the gulf between theory and practice in policy making through synthesis of the academic findings and experiential inputs from practitioners, leaders, and professionals. The objective of the Centre is to establish a wide peace constituency of resource persons and scholars stretching within & beyond South Asia through mutual & web-based interaction in seminars, workshops and dialogues. These interactive activities have been enriching and expanding the data and information base of the Centre. The presentations done, lessons learnt and inputs made by the experts are effectively used in the Centre’s academic teaching and training programmes.

 Thus the Malaviya Centre for Peace Research has emerged as a hub of intellectual activities in north India and is serving as a valuable resource centre for researchers and students of different universities in India and abroad. The presence in the Faculty of Social Sciences of a number of staff who are keenly interested in Peace Studies has been one of the formative influences in the creation of  the MCPR and, together with their doctoral students, are building up a critical mass of sound research on issues of peace and conflict.