About

Established in 2023, the Centre for Peace Praxis aims at building communities of hope, healing and resilience. To achieve this goal, the Centre regularly organizes workshops and events aimed at spreading peace literacy. These events largely align with the Centre’s pillars of media literacy, psychosocial support, intercultural dialogue and ecological wellbeing.

Put simply, the Centre for Peace Praxis, as the name suggests, creates an environment where individuals learn to embrace diversity and engage in enriching discussions that prove to be helpful not only at the personal level, but also provide global exposure.

Director's Note

The Hard Road to Peace: Necessary and Possible

Peace is rarely accidental—it is often hard-earned. In contrast, it is easy to bypass life’s deeper complexities: to seek unfair advantages, surrender to impulsive emotions, assert dominance, ignore ethical reflection, and gradually normalize a culture of violence.

While violence is reactive and often instinctive, peace is deliberate. It calls for deep listening, difficult conversations, healing of wounds, and the humility to learn from failure. It demands the creation of just, inclusive, and resilient systems—and above all, the audacity to hope for a better, shared future, even in the face of adversity.

The Centre for Peace Praxis at CHRIST University is grounded in the belief that peace is not just a feeling or an ideal—it is a skill to be learned, a practice to be cultivated, and a culture to be nurtured. Beyond good intentions and kind acts, peacebuilding requires knowledge, tools, and wisdom drawn from global practitioners committed to collective well-being.

The Centre’s work is rooted in four core pillars:
a) Intercultural Dialogue,
b) Psycho-social Well-being,
c) Media Literacy, and
d) Eco-consciousness.

Through capacity-building initiatives, research, and meaningful community engagement, the Centre strives to embed peace in both personal and public spheres.

Peace cannot be pursued in isolation. It thrives when good forces converge. The Centre actively collaborates with a broad network of stakeholders—educational institutions, civil society groups, government bodies, policy makers, media and creative communities, the private sector, and international development partners—to co-create a future grounded in empathy, equity, and shared responsibility.

Dr MM Padmakumar

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