Civilian Peace Service Canada (CPSC) Mission

Our goal is to build a sustainable peace, at home and abroad, in partnership with local communities, through establishment in a phased manner of the Civilian Peace Service Canada which facilitates the training and accreditation of qualified civilians to promote and facilitate the non-violent resolution of conflict.

CPSC Vision

To be a world leader in accreditation of Peace Professionals -- professionals with a new kind of courage, the courage to wage peace.


CPSC is professionalizing peace work. Like doctors, lawyers, engineers, soldiers, environmentalists, etc., it is time for peace workers to establish and apply standards to the practice of their skills and the application of their expertise. We must:

  1. apply appropriate values and principles critical to this field of practice,
  2. build credibility for peace practitioners with the wider public and decision makers in order to effectively influence national and international policy and action, and
  3. distinguish between those who have taken a few weeks of peace related training and those who have years of related training, experience and evidence of results in the field.

Future Direction

The Future Direction of CPSC is to ensure Canada is a world leader in creating pragmatic peace by 2020. In partnership with the Brian Bronfman Foundation, the Canadian Advanced Technology Alliance and i-Canada, CPSC has created the Canadian Peace Service.