Peace Through Knowledge

Center for Peace &
  Conflict Studies

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Wayne State University

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Program Description

Wayne State University, with support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, created the program on Mediating Theory and Democratic Systems (MTDS) in 1991. As the sixteenth Hewlett Center established for the study of dispute resolution theory, the Wayne State program addresses the increasingly complex and crucial problems of social conflict among ethnically diverse peoples. Wayne State is a Carnegie I research institution in the heart of Detroit. MTDS is situated in the university’s College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs and combines theoretical inquiry on both urban and international conflict, as befits one of America’s most diverse and internationally connected cities.