The Senator George J. Mitchell Institute
Established in 2016, the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice is a home for inter-disciplinary research in areas of major societal change. The Institute’s approach is based on three foundational convictions:
- that it is impossible properly to understand or pursue peace, security or justice without understanding and pursuing them all
- that it is vital to support inter-disciplinary research and education
- that research, education, societal engagement and real-world impact are all necessarily interwoven with each other.
The Mitchell Institute therefore brings together researchers and experts from a wide range of disciplines and backgrounds to address some of the world's greatest problems. It produces pioneering and influential Research into diverse but integrated aspects of peace, security and justice; it fosters transformative and inter-disciplinary Education, especially for graduate students; and it is committed to Societal Engagement and Real-World Impact in partnership locally, nationally and globally, and in pursuit of global peace, security and justice.
The Mitchell Institute’s work is strongly influenced by its distinctive location within a society which has long experienced division and conflict, and which has witnessed a transformative peace process. Some of the Institute’s work focuses directly on that distinctive experience, and much of its work is enriched by expertise and ideas drawn from it. The Institute embodies a commitment that local, national and global insights regarding peace, security and justice can and should be integrated and of practical benefit across all societies.