Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding

Formation	2008 (2008)
Founders	Thomas J. Biersteker, Keith Krause, Ricardo Bocco, Gilles Carbonnier
Headquarters	Geneva
Location	Maison de la paix
Fields	Peacebuilding, Community policing, Security sector reform
Director	Keith Krause
Head of Research	Oliver Jütersonke
Parent organization	Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Affiliations	Small Arms Survey, Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, Geneva Centre for Security Studies
Website	graduateinstitute.ch/ccdp

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies which is housed at the Maison de la paix in Geneva. The Centre is staffed by several prominent researchers such as: director Keith Krause, Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Thomas J. Biersteker, Anna Leander, Jonathan Luke Austin, and Jean-Louis Arcand.

Founding

The Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding (CCDP) was founded in 2008 by Keith Krause, Thomas J. Biersteker, Ricardo Bocco and Gilles Carbonnier, following the merger of HEI and IUED into the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Expertise

The Centre specifically focuses on research in the following fields:

• Peacebuilding, Armed violence reduction, reconciliation, and the transformation of conflict;
• Community Policing, and informal security provision, particularly in urban settings;
• Security sector reform;
• Critical security studies;
• Development, extractive industries and the political economy of violence.