Background
From the socio-political and economic perspectives, the establishment of Gulu University was issue-based and demand-driven to respond to the much needed high-level education, research and to stimulate sustainable development in the war-ravaged region of Northern Uganda.
Confronted with such an enormous task, the University's functional quality could only be realised and sustained by creating specialised academic centres to respond to particular issues from both the professional and practitioners' perspectives.
Informed by this criterion, the University established the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies (CCMPS) in 2003, which was elevated to an Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS) in 2007. The institute has become more efficient, effective and robust in the promotion of an inter-disciplinary, action-oriented and community-centred approach in conflict prevention, management, resettlement, resolution, transformation and peace building for a harmonious and peaceful societal co-existence.
Informed by this criterion, the University established the Centre for Conflict Management and Peace Studies (CCMPS) in 2003, which was elevated to an Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies (IPSS) in 2007. The institute has become more efficient, effective and robust in the promotion of an inter-disciplinary, action-oriented and community-centred approach in conflict prevention, management, resettlement, resolution, transformation and peace building for a harmonious and peaceful societal co-existence.
The Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies ~ IPSS ~
The Institute of Peace and Strategic Studies responds to the challenge by establishing itself as a focal point for intellectual inquiry and action-oriented research in the field of peace, conflict and strategic studies, and any other discipline that bears relevance to the peace interests and needs of the community.
It is an innovative intervener and a multiplier in peace and reconciliation work, involving civil society and community initiatives. With commitment and interest in international co-operation for peace work, the institute is an open space and forum of training and experience of new methods and tools in peace work in order to create and reinforce new capacities of peace builders as genuine catalysts within their respective communities and societies.
It is an innovative intervener and a multiplier in peace and reconciliation work, involving civil society and community initiatives. With commitment and interest in international co-operation for peace work, the institute is an open space and forum of training and experience of new methods and tools in peace work in order to create and reinforce new capacities of peace builders as genuine catalysts within their respective communities and societies.
Vision
To be a leading centre for academic and practical excellence in peace, legal and strategic studies.
Mission
To provide excellent quality research, training and dissemination that shall promote academic and practical growth in peace, legal and strategic studies through professionalism and sustainable response to social community conflicts.
Welcome to Gulu University's
Institute of Peace
and Strategic Studies
Transforming Communities for Sustainable Peace
