Center of Peace and Social Studies - CPASS

The current dynamic of Pakistan’s society calls for serious steps for future stability as with every passing day, our fatal fault lines are becoming intriguingly challenging. The centrality of solemn contribution for a resonating consonance ensuring peaceful co-existence have never been needed so direly as now. Center of Peace and Social Studies (CPASS) is a newly established non-partisan, nonprofit organization working as a peace advocate through countering violent extremism, youth development, and social cohesion. The institute also works for democratic reforms and cultural integration among various societal entities within Pakistan and regionally. The objective is to overcome the extremist, criminal and rebellious ideologies penetrating the youths of various religious, ethnic and nationalist communities. To integrate the Madrassah students into mainstream society through collaborative awareness, de-radicalization and reform programs is also among the CPASS agenda priorities. Furthermore, CPASS sees it imperative for the intelligentsia and policymakers of the region in the rapidly transforming global and regional environment to influence the ethnic, religious, socio-economic classes, entities & groups to shun their traditional belief systems, getting out of their narrowly-designed shells, and start thinking out-of-box. The ultimate objective is to achieve greater social balance, harmony and peace through greater integrations and understanding, increased interdependence, patience and pluralism. This is actually ought of the time and that’s why it’s one of the most powerful ideas of this era. Research projects, seminars for awareness and advocacy, interactive workshops, round-table discussion forums, provision of platforms to the representatives of various identities and communities, are some the methods CPASS employs to achieve its envisioned objectives. Team CPASS keeps itself updated to modify its modus operandi as per need of the time and audiences it deals.