<p>Check out the University of San Diego’s Joan Kroc Institute of Peace and Justice</p>
<p>[Joan</a> B. Kroc Institute For Peace&Justice: About IPJ](<a href=“http://peace.sandiego.edu/about/mission.html]Joan”>http://peace.sandiego.edu/about/mission.html)</p>
<p>It’s in a palacial new building situated on a bluff overlooking San Diego’s Mission Bay.</p>
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<p>So long as we’re talking about the immediate campus area (not the city of NYC vs Philadelphia) then I stand by what I said 
and I shall fight you to the death for it! <em>lunge</em></p>
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I see “peace studies” as euphemistic term for “international relations,” used by those who downplay the importance of the use of violence as a means to achieve desired ends–endemic to the human condition since cavemen started hitting each other with bones and pointy things.</p>
<p>To me it is akin to calling medicine “healthy people studies” when the focus of medicine is largely on what happens when people are NOT healthy.</p>
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<p>Good analogy, in a back-handed sort of way. Just as traditional IR has overemphasized war and underemphasized peace and its preconditions, so has traditional Western medicine overemphasized disease and its treatment and underemphasized wellness and disease prevention. In both cases some schools and scholars—concededly still at the margins of their respective disciplines—are trying to correct that unhealthy imbalance. I applaud their efforts.</p>
<p>"How about underwater basketweaving?</p>
<p>what kind of job placement do these program have, in comparison with NON-politically tilted International relations graduates. </p>
<p>Job are hard to come by; don’t limit your chances by shouting your politics."</p>
<p>Good point, if you ever want to work for a conservative organization or Republican administration, you might want to avoid any training in what it might entail to live in peace. Because God has a war to fight and the conservatives don’t want non of y’all hippy peace studies majors to have anything to do with it.</p>
<p>But seriously, the fact that you believe “peace and conflict” screams political affiliation says much more about the political party then the individual.</p>