Peace & Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies is a 2 year undergraduate program designed to explore dynamics of violence and peace from the interpersonal to the international level. 

We introduce students to the structural causes of war and violence and provide insights into the many peaceful initiatives that challenge institutionalized and interpersonal violence.

Langara College sits on the unceded and ancestral territory of the Musqueam people; Peace and Conflict Studies engages with the deep meaning and impact of Canada’s colonial past and present. Reconciliation of this past is one example of the peace-building that is a core element of our program.

Learning about, understanding, and disrupting the institutional and structural causes of violence from the interpersonal to the international is the main focus of Peace and Conflict Studies. Through our courses and in our program, students are invited to develop alternative skills and to explore alternative modes of transforming conflict at all levels.