There are a large number of research institutes around the world that study peace. Over the past few years, they have conducted various studies on what peace is, what causes conflict, how conflict and peace trends have changed throughout the decades, how to achieve peace, and whether there is a way to objectively operationalize and measure peace. However, exchanges and cooperation among peace institutes have not been carried out actively. There were various reasons for the lack of interactions and engagements among peace institutes, such as no specific motivation to unite them and no institute playing a leading role. As a result, research on peace and conflict has been conducted individually at each research institute, making it difficult to accumulate and develop collective knowledge. Still, peace institutes can benefit largely by actively engaging in academic exchanges between one another, such as learning from each other's research and improving the quality of its own. For instance, peace institutes in Europe could learn how Asian institutes approach, define, and study peace, and vice versa, generating fruitful research results by incorporating diverse perspectives.
Therefore, the Jeju Peace Institute (JPI) plans to invite researchers from other peace institutes to the Jeju Forum. Specifically, the JPI plans to invite researchers from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO), the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and the East-West Center. By holding a joint session composed of peace researchers, we hope to discuss various topics regarding peace, such as defining peace, discovering new peace research agendas, quantifying and measuring peace, and achieving and spreading peace globally.