The Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies at Coventry University, founded in 1999, is a dynamic, secular, cosmopolitan centre reflecting contemporary international scholarship on the theories and practices of conflict transformation, peace-building, nonviolent politics, human security, faith–based and humanitarian aid, and post-conflict reconstruction. 

CPRS research areas are divided into six clusters: nonviolence and conflict transformation; global security in the maritime domain; 'hard' and 'soft' peacebuilding; cultural dimensions of peace & reconciliation; rising powers, peace and conflict; and people-centred approaches to security.