The Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway

The Centre for Peace Studies, University of Tromsø, Norway is a teaching and research unit at the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tromsø. Since its foundation in 2002 it has awarded some 90 master's degrees and arranged 12 conferences Its current lead research unit is the International Research Group on Reintegration (IRGR) which focuses on the process of ex-combatant reintegration, in particular the overlapping social, political, and economic dimensions of ex-combatant reintegration. The IRGR has recently launched a new study series profiling the reintegration processes of revolutionary combatants in Nepal, disillusioned ex-Talibans in Afghanistan, and ex-pirates in Somalia. 

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