Vision
The School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development endeavors to enhance the capacity of people and organizations to advance conflict-related discourse, enact constructive change, and inspire peace and development.
Mission Statement
The mission of the School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development is four-fold:
- (1) to prepare engaged, interdisciplinary change-makers with rigorous academic and
practice skills for peacemaking and development in domestic and international contexts;
- (2) to produce cutting edge, policy-relevant research on conflict, peace, and development;
- (3) to enact peacebuilding, conflict management, and development programming and practice
in a variety of contexts across disciplines, sectors, and levels of analysis; and,
ultimately
- (4) to inspire peace and promote positive change.
Goals
The School of Conflict Management, Peacebuilding and Development aims to advance our mission, as well as the mission of Kennesaw State University, by working toward these goals:
- Providing educational opportunities that will give our graduates the maximum options
for employment;
- Creating a shared sense of purpose among faculty, staff, and students engaged in conflict
management, peacebuilding, and development locally and globally;
- Contributing (through research, teaching, practice and engagement) to the prevention,
reduction, elimination, resolution and transformation of violent conflict both domestically
and internationally;
- Developing strategies and tools to systematically analyze, understand, explain and
predict conflict and the mechanisms that contribute to its solution, including the
use of nonviolence to address injustice; and,
- Making the Norman J. Radow College of Humanities and Social Sciences and Kennesaw
State University a true first-choice destination for conflict management, peacebuilding,
and development scholarship, education, and practice in the United States and across
the globe.
About KSU
Kennesaw State is a comprehensive university located on two suburban campuses in Kennesaw and Marietta, northwest of metro Atlanta. We are making an impact across the region, the nation and around the world. As the third largest university in Georgia, Kennesaw State has nearly 43,000 students enrolled in over 180 undergraduate, master’s, doctoral degree and certificate programs.
