Based in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) is an independent research centre that conducts action-oriented research. The research conducted by this centre aims at influencing policy-makers in key areas such as state building, governance, narcotics, conflict resolution and peace building. With a primary focus on Afghanistan and the surrounding region, CAPS works towards building local capacity to produce conflict and threat assessments. The local experts at CAPS track and store data on crucial developments in Afghanistan and the region. CAPS is committed to offering and facilitating first rate research, training and knowledge exchange on conflicts, people and cultures, as well as violent groups in Afghanistan and the region.

Bangaldesh Centre for Terrorism Research (BCTR) is a part of the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS). Launched on 15 March 2008, it is a unique research centre dedicated to study and research on terrorism with an aim of reducing the threat of terrorism and violent extremism and minimizing its impact on society. The Centre's mission is to study the goals, tactics, resources and strategies of terrorism and analyzing terrorist threats and risks and develop response to them. It is functioning as a specialized centre within the framework of BIPSS. The first centre of its kind in Bangladesh, BCTR is headed by Major General Muniruzzaman, ndc, psc (Retd). BCTR’s activities will contribute to the fields of peace and security by enhancing the understanding of terrorism and finding ways and means to effectively counter it.

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The Institute for International Peace Building (IIPB) is a non-government organization that founded in January 2008 and initiated to conduct extended researches in Indonesia and the region to promote peace. IIPB’s aim is to give inputs to the policy-makers in key areas including religions, conflict resolution, and peace building. As a new organization, in the first year programme, IIPB is dedicated to the researches on the conflict resolution and peace building in Indonesia and extend its networks with other community based organizations.

The Geneva Centre for Training and Analysis of Terrorism (GCTAT) is a private entity engaged in the security sphere. It is dedicated to the execution of mandates from institutional and private sector. Our center is responsible for the acquisition, processing, exploitation and various forms of transmission of all information within its field of activities and necessary to fulfill the mandates agreed by the center. Our team executes search warrants, investigation, analysis and training in risk analysis and terrorism. Our team has established, maintains and constantly updates operational documentation, and teaching methodology used in training, courses and seminars related to terrorism that the center intends to propose. The GCTAT acquires, develops, disseminates and communicates sensitive information and relevant in its area of jurisdiction. It publishes a targeted media and media quality, some results of its operations research and the product of analysis on terrorism.

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The IITM China Studies Centre was established at IIT Madras in April 2011 with a view to creating an academic centre dedicated to a long-term study of China. The establishment of this Centre is in response to an urgent need felt in the academic, policy and strategic communities’ to come up with a dynamic enough framework that provides an understanding of contemporary China and its global role.