Dottorato in peace studies
With La Sapienza, promoting advanced education and research pathways on peace.
Starting date
1 November 2024Duration
36 monthsRealized by:
Sapienza Università di RomaObjectives
Promote interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral advanced education and research pathways that offer innovative perspectives and develop a significant and positive impact on society.
Train experts capable of positively interacting with organizations, institutions, public administrations, intergovernmental bodies, and social, business, and community structures at local, national, and supranational levels, to contribute to the development of inclusive, peaceful, and sustainable policies.
Enable PhD candidates to implement and develop original research that contributes to the growth of various scientific disciplines related to understanding and studying peace dynamics, and to education and research on peace in its multiple forms.
The National PhD Program (DIN) in Peace Studies is an interdisciplinary and innovative training and research space focused on conflict and peace. The first of its kind in Italy, it was initiated by RUniPace, the Italian Universities Network for Peace (CRUI Network).
The DIN in Peace Studies, through a highly qualified educational pathway, aims to train professionals in various fields of study and research related to peace studies.
PhD graduates in Peace Studies will be equipped to analyze, through an interdisciplinary approach, the dynamics of conflict and peace, reconciliation and mediation, social and cultural intersection and interaction, and aspects of geopolitics, international relations, economics, and local, national, and supranational institutions characterized by conflict at various levels. The goal is to understand the processes of peaceful transformation of human, social, political, and technical-scientific relations.
Thanks to the support of the 8×1000 funds from SGI Italy, Sapienza University, where the 40th cycle of the PhD Program in Peace Studies for the academic year 2024/2025 is activated, will be able to add two additional doctoral scholarships: one for the “Identità, Memorie, Religioni e Pace” curriculum and one for the “Economie della pace” curriculum.
Research conducted within the “Identità, Memorie, Religioni e Pace” curriculum will aim to delineate, through synchronic and diachronic perspectives, how conflict management methods influence the identities and memories of communities, shaping their institutions, places, practices, and beliefs. Peace and conflicts will be investigated primarily from a historical perspective and with an interdisciplinary approach, examining their narrative, conceptual, and rhetorical aspects as well as their material, spatial, and symbolic dimensions.
The “Economie della pace” curriculum proposes the study of a new economic paradigm that allows for overcoming increasingly strong and divisive inequalities, with a perspective of inclusive economic development in different areas of the world. An economy of the common good requires a remodulation of public spending and welfare systems to regenerate various territorial communities. Key topics in the peace economy include: military spending and its impact on economic and social systems; the socio-economic determinants of political violence; and the economic determinants and effects of international armed conflicts.
