The Centre for Peace Studies (CPS) is a civil society organization that protects human rights and strives for social change based on the values of democracy, anti-fascism, non-violence, peacebuilding, solidarity, and equality through activism, education, research, advocacy, and
direct support.
The program unit Education and Empowerment for Social Change is focused on empowering individuals and groups for progressive social transformation.
The core principle of work within this program unit involves designing and implementing various types of educational programs, providing support, and advocating for high-quality educational policies.
In the long term, we aim to contribute to the democratization and inclusiveness of the education system, enhancing the civic competence of students, teachers, and young people, and empowering citizens for activist engagement.
Through the program unit Protection and Promotion of the Right to Asylum and Migration, we aim to safeguard the asylum system and ensure safe and regular pathways for migration and the attainment of legal status.
Through direct action, research, legal support, and public advocacy, we strive to put an end to unlawful and violent practices against refugees and other migrants, encourage improvements to the legislative framework and practices related to asylum and safe migration pathways, combat the criminalization of solidarity, and inform refugees and other migrants about their rights in accessing asylum and regulating their status.
To achieve this program goal, we collaborate with international, regional, and local networks, institutions and organizations, lawyers, media outlets, and individuals.
Through the program unit Building an Inclusive Society, we aim to ensure that integration is approached in a multi-sectoral and multi-dimensional way, that refugees and foreigners are well-received in our society, and that they enjoy human rights on par with other members of the community.
Additionally, we seek to encourage society to become more open to diversity. In this context, we undertake efforts to make discrimination and violence motivated by hatred and prejudice unacceptable. Through our work, we raise awareness among institutions about the necessity of introducing institutional practices for preventing and sanctioning structural violence and discrimination.
We also develop networks of activist resistance for progressive social change in the fight against racism.
Through the program unit Affirmation of Economic and Social Rights, the Centre for Peace Studies aims to encourage citizens, the public, and institutions to recognize economic and social rights as human rights and to improve access to these rights, particularly for marginalized social groups.
To achieve this program goal, we collaborate with international, regional, and local networks, institutions, civil society organizations, legal experts, the academic community, media outlets, and individuals.
Additionally, by building and developing our human and financial capacities, we ensure long-term work on this issue, striving for a socially and economically fairer society.
