Interuniversity Centre for Peace Studies (CISP)

The Interuniversity Centre for Peace Studies (CISP) was founded in 2001 by the University of Turin, the University of Eastern Piedmont and the Turin Polytechnic, with the aim of promoting, coordinating and carrying out studies and research on peace issues and war, in a perspective open to different political, religious and cultural sensitivities. It also promotes, coordinates and carries out studies and research on arms control and reduction processes and related technologies.

CISP intends to enhance the interdisciplinary nature of peace studies, with the aim of bringing together in dialogue those scholars who deal with these issues from different disciplinary perspectives, to promote, enrich and refine their respective research fields. From this point of view, primary importance is attributed to the involvement of young scholars and in general to the role of education.

From a scientific point of view, the research axes along which the centre's activity is directed can be summarised under three headings: thinking about peace, thinking about war and its limits, thinking about international justice. Although analytically distinct, these lines of research are closely intertwined. One of the crossing points is constituted by the relationship between religions, violence and non-violence, which allows us to look at the relationship between religious forms and fundamental categories of political action in a critical-comparative key, and in a global perspective.

Contact person for Disum

• prof. Gabriella Silvestrini

Administrative office of the Centre at DISUM