About Department of Peace and Conflict Studies

“Peace” has always been at the centre of human desires ranging from personal quests to the goals of larger communities. Modern people culminated these quests into institutional forms to free the humanity from war, torture, hunger, illnesses and all other forms of physical and psychological sufferings. This institutional progress had become obvious in a juncture of history when human experienced catastrophes of apocalyptic scale twice in the forms of two world wars. A cold war replaced that history of bloodsheds with a fragile promise of peace, which grounded its feet on a delicate system of deterrence supported by a doctrine of ultimate horror, mutually assured destruction (MAD). While the strategic ...

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Message from Chairman

Saifuddin Ahmed

Message from the Chairman ‘Peace’ has always been at the centre of human desires ranging from personal quests to the goals of larger communities. Modern people culminated these quests into institutional forms to free the humanity from war, torture, hunger, illnesses and all other forms of physical and psychological sufferings. This institutional progress had become obvious in a juncture of history ...

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