Our Vision
Together, we advance peace between individuals, communities, nations, and species.
Together, we prevent the rise of violent extremism and its ideological and sociopolitical roots across the world.
Our Mission
The Madina Institute Center for Non-Violence and Peace Studies (CNVPS) operates to create lasting positive change through presenting solutions and remedies for violent extremism and its ideological and sociopolitical roots. CNVPS seeks to unite experts from various fields of research to bring forward a more harmonious world by substantiating non-violence as an ethically and strategically superior method for achieving peaceful cooperation, conflict resolution, and sociopolitical change.
Our Goals
Relevant Research
Providing policymakers, media agencies, and thinktanks with relevant research, data, and consultation on our fields of interest
Exchanging Information
Exchanging information on the various experiences of dealing with violence and extremism.
Building Leadership
Building qualified and skillful leadership to lead the world into becoming a more peaceful place
A word from our Founder
Our Field of Interests
- Non-violence studies using Non-Violence: A Fundamental Principle as an ideological and practical framework.
- Philosophy and theory of non-violence and its application in different social, cultural, and geopolitical contexts.
- Case studies of non-violent attempts at conflict resolution and their relative consequences on communities in the long-term.
- Effects of terrorism and violent extremism on victims and groups associated with perpetrators (such as Muslims suffering from Post-Terrorism Stress Disorder).
- Extremism and identitarian supremacy within different nations, cultures, and religions, and the push-and-pull factors of ideological and violent extremism.
- Origins of different forms of violent extremism, racial, nationalistic, and religious.
- War, militarism, and jingoism: their destruction of life, property, and liberty and their erosion of civil society.
- Cultivation of democratic and pluralistic values in democratically deficient areas.
- Deconstruction of culturally essentialist explanations of underdevelopment and authoritarianism in the developing world and the study of higher-quality explanations.