The Center for Peace & Conflict Studies (CPCS) just celebrated its 40th anniversary.

Our History:
CPCS, first chartered by the WSU Board of Governors in 1987, is the successor to the Center for Teaching about War and Peace, founded by a group of concerned WSU faculty in 1965.  The Center was dedicated on November 20, 1965 as part of the University's School of Education and Graduate Studies program.  Professor Russell Broadhead served as its first Director, and the mission was to provide interdisciplinary, university wide academic programs in the field of domestic and international conflict and peace issues.

Today, the mission of CPCS is to develop and implement projects, programs, curricula, research and publications in areas of scholarship related to international and domestic peace, war, social justice, arms control, globalization, multicultural awareness and constructive conflict resolution.

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