UCLan Peace and Justice Studies Network

Description

The Peace and Justice Studies Network aims to provide a forum for individuals and groups, both within and externally to engage with the study of promoting peace and justice, in all its manifestations. It will engage with ‘hate crime’, and other criminal, discriminatory, or adverse behaviour, but its aim is the promotion of peace and justice.

The Network has been made possible by Higher Education Innovation Funding within the University of Central Lancashire’s School of Law and Social Science. In part, the funding is to enable and promote knowledge transfer between the University and communities.

The aim is to create an environment that attracts and engages with excellent theoretical and ‘real life’ applications of research and practice from academics and practitioners. Recent collaborations, for example, have seen research staff evaluate Restorative Justice and ‘hate crime’ projects within the North West. The Network aims to be interdisciplinary. It offers not only evaluation of existing programmes to promote peace and justice, but also research into potential new programmes. It engages, for example, with the factors leading to anti-social but also discriminatory behaviour in many contexts, and their wide effects: The Network is linked to the University of Central Lancashire's Criminal Justice Partnership, and the researchers within this.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2018

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University of Central Lancashire
Preston