Our History & Vision
The International Center for Peace Psychology (ICPP) aims to create space for wellbeing, empathy, dialogue and positive peacebuilding while working at the intersection of psychology, mental health, socio-emotional wellbeing, education, art & innovation, culture, community, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. The Center actively aims to take peace-psychology from theory into practice, while counteracting the enforced ‘normal’, exploring decolonized approaches of wellbeing and advocating for peace & justice.
The impetus for the International Center for Peace Psychology (under the aegis of Paigaam: A Message for Peace trust) comes from Ufra Mir's pioneering and evolving peace-psychology practice in Kashmir , other parts of South-Asia and the world (US, UK, Europe, Global South/Majority World). The ICPP aims to take these important learnings and challenges from the ground, and share them with the rest of the world to create a wider impact, advocacy, policy and awareness.
Our Practice & Mission
Taking the decade long on-ground pioneering peace-psychology practices from Kashmir and South-Asia to the rest of the world through psychsosocial support, trainings, education, research, advocacy, mentorship, policymaking, community work, and local and global collaborations.
The ICPP will keep working through experiential-workshops, designing interventions, facilitating dialogues, creating community safe-spaces, exploring decolonized approaches of wellbeing, implementing strategies, mentorship and awareness programs, and advocacy - more so, in the context of bridging the gap between grassroots practices and policymaking. This will include some focus on the YPS-WPS sectors as well.
Our Team
We believe in holistic approach to life, issues and policies. Hence, we have peace-psychologists, peace practitioners, mental health professionals, social workers, psychologists from different branches, researchers and advisors from all around the world with us; some of whom have been guiding this work in the past decade.