BUILDPEACE: Building peacebuilders through integrated formal and non-formal learning approaches

BUILDPEACE will boost the skills and competencies of Europeans in the public, third and private sectors to build peace and connect communities. 


Prospect Trust Audits

Trust is an important organisational resource, enhancing commitment, identification and citizenship. Distrust, in contrast, increases turnover and can escalate counterproductive behaviours including sabotage, theft and bullying.


The Maritime Dimension of Transnational Organised Crime

The proposed research builds on the collaboration between the Centre for Trust Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) of Coventry University (UK) and the International Organization for Migration Indonesia (IOM). This collaboration started in 2014 with a specific focus on the interrelation between maritime and human security issues in Indonesia


RISING Global Peace Forum

RISING: dialogue and debate to push forward new ways of thinking about how we approach threats and confrontations in today’s turbulent world. 


The Experiences of Survivors and Trauma Counselling Service Providers in Northern Uganda and Rwanda: Implications for Mental Health Policy and Legislation

This research investigated the experiences of service users and providers of trauma services in Kitgum and Gulu, northern Uganda. It also examined their implications for mental health policy and legislation.


Researching Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) Intervention Programmes Linked to African Communities in the EU (REPLACE 2)

The REPLACE 2 project followed on from the REPLACE project which investigated the reasons why FGM persists in the EU despite years of campaigning to end the illegal practice, in order to produce a behavioural change model that could be applied to ending FGM in the EU.


South East Asia Resilience Hub (SEARCH): Socio-Economic Resilience of Coastal Communities

The SEARCH Network links scholars and practitioners from South East Asia (SEA) and the UK around the topic of disaster risk management (DRM), community response, and socio-economic factors of coastal communities and coastal hazards.


Inside/Out: using storytelling to understand the politics of exclusion in Europe and South Africa

The UK and South Africa, while different, share trends towards inequality and the othering of migrants as responsible for social problems. This project uses storytelling to generate new bottom-up narratives to challenge dominant top down discursive politics of exclusion.


Remanufacturing Pathways (REMANPATH)

Remanufacturing Pathways, helps small manufactures to grow their business, taking back the products and remanufacture them.


Compromising Dignity? Preventing Violent Extremism in the Sahel, Africa

This project responds to the experience of policy-makers and practitioners working on ‘preventing violent extremism’ (PVE) who find policies developed and implemented under the rubric of PVE to be ambiguous and vague which can lead to dignity being compromised.


"A Sea of Opportunity” - The Maritime Dimension of Brexit Narratives

This project aims to address this gap in scholarly knowledge through new data and outputs that will, for the first time, reveal the maritime dimension of Brexit narratives, why this mattered, and how it continues to create impasses in UK-ROI-EU relations


Uncovering the legacy of Black British Social Workers: Between the personal, the professional and the political

This project collects oral histories of Black Social Workers in Britain to uncover the history of racialised identities and inequalities in the children’s care system in Britain.


Understanding and Addressing Asylum Seekers’ Health and Well-being in Coventry and Rugby

As the UK hosts asylum seekers and refugees, with Coventry leading on the Syrian Vulnerable Persons resettlement scheme, it is imperative to understand how their health and well-being needs can best be effectively and efficiently met by healthcare practitioners.


Amongst the last to leave: Understanding the Journeys of Muslim Children in the Care System in the Midlands

According to research evidence, Muslim children experience significant delay in finding a permanent home. This research project will analyse the social, cultural and religious reasons for the small number of Muslim parents coming forward to adopt or foster.


UN sponsored conflict resolution in Kyrgyzstan: Why do external peacebuilding interventions not correspond to insider needs?

This project responds to the experience of policy-makers and practitioners working on ‘preventing violent extremism’ (PVE) who find policies developed and implemented under the rubric of PVE to be ambiguous and vague which can lead to dignity being compromised.


CHANGE Plus: Promoting Behaviour Change towards the Eradication of Female Genital Mutilation in Practising Communities and Community-Based Advocacy

The CHANGE Plus project aims to raise awareness, change attitudes and promote behaviour change on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in practicing African communities in four EU countries: Germany, Netherlands, Portugal and France.


Unravelling the Mediterranean Migration Crisis (MEDMIG)

In 2015 over a million people crossed the Mediterranean to Europe in search of protection and a better life. Thousands died along the way. The MEDMIG project set out to better understand these migration dynamics as part of the Mediterranean Migration Research Programme.


Church Responses to Domestic Abuse

A study of the nature and extent of domestic abuse in UK churches to support churches in challenging domestic abuse and reducing its incidence. The research focused on the county of Cumbria in north-west England.


What the new counter-terrorism duty means for schools and further education colleges

The first major mixed-method study into the enactment of the Prevent counter-terrorism in statutory education.


The Better Place Index

The Better Place Index (BPI) is a global measure for peace, prosperity and sustainability. It also identifies if governments do a good job.