The Academic Council on the United Nations System seeks to stimulate, support, and disseminate research, analysis on the United Nations, multilateralism, and international organization. ACUNS also promotes teaching on these topics, as well as dialogue and mutual understanding across and between the academic and practitioner communities.

The Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies provides a platform of interaction for academics and practitioners in the field of peace and conflict studies. The Centre encourages interdisciplinary debates and conversations between members of staff and students alike and promotes research on the various aspects of war, peace and peacebuilding. 

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. 

The Department of Peace Studies, University of Bradford was established in 1973-74. It combines empirical, theoretical and applied research with sustained engagement at international, regional, national and local levels to analyse, prevent and resolve conflicts and develop peaceful societies. Since the Division was established in 1973/4, it has produced nearly 3,000 graduates and 60 PhDs between 2007 and 2013.