about pdre

The Peace Development Research and Education (PDRE) as the name shows is promoting awareness and quality research in the area of peace, education, and development. The PDRE highlights the issues of peace and conflict, higher education, regional connectivity, and development in Pakistan, Afghanistan, China, and South Asia at large. It strives for a positive change in the society. The PDRE through its research journal JHEDS also endeavors to deeply understand Afghanistan, China and Pakistan relations, institutional linkages, and people-to-people contacts in the context of peace, higher education, and development. The PDRE is an endeavor to deepen local understanding of higher education, development, society, economy, culture, language, and political system of the countries in the region. It aims at achieving continuous advancement through research and dissemination of information about the subject area in a manner that is in tune with the ground realities. It draws from the cultural, intellectual, and economic local, national, and global resources to enrich and strengthen its domain and strives for excellence in research. The PDRE strives to become an excellent think-tank in research, learning, and study in the region by producing research as per international standards.

The aims and objectives of the PDRE are:

1. To serve as a forum for endeavors and research on issues related to peace, education, development, health, and human welfare particularly in Pakistan and generally at the region at large.
2. To bring together persons actively engaged in research, teaching, and practice in the aforementioned areas.
3. To foster interdisciplinary scholarship, research, education, and training.
4. To encourage scholarly, scientific, and practical exchange and cooperation among those institutions engaged in the study of education, peace, and development at the regional level.