The Centre for Peace Studies is a research and co-ordination project in Peace Studies at the University of Tromsø, Norway. Inspired by the conference Higher Education for Peace ( May 4-6 2000), dreams, ambitions, and hopes for such a project saw results when in November 2001 The Norwegian Parliament awarded two million Norwegian kroner to establish a national and international centre for Peace Studies. In the assignment letter from The Department it is stated that "the Centre is to establish new competence within the field of peace- and conflict-studies, and within such areas as ethnicity and democracy-building. The centre is to have a co-ordinating role for the field, both nationally and internationally."