Peace Research, Science & Scholarship
Peacebuilders in Type 21 create knowledge about peace, conflict and violence prevention. The type includes scholars, scientists and researchers in universities and think tanks, alongside peace historians, peace anthropologists and sociologists, peace philosophers, peace linguists, poets and creative writers. It covers professionals and also people outside academia who are deeply engaged in the subjects they study and write about.
Peacebuilding approaches used by this type include:
- Peace and conflict research in universities, think tanks and conflict zones, producing policy papers and toolkits that advance practice
- Peace history, documenting historical peace movements, peace heroes and nonviolent resistance campaigns, and preserving movement archives
- Peace anthropology and sociology, studying peaceful societies across history and around the world
- Peace science, including biology and neuroscience research on cooperation and empathy that challenges myths about war and human nature
- Peace philosophy and visioning, developing frameworks for peaceful societies, common and human security, and feminist peace theories
- Peace linguistics, studying how words and narratives escalate or de-escalate tension, and designing nonviolent ways of speaking
- Creative writing and poetry that challenges cultures of violence and shifts public opinion toward peace
