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In response to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George Melnyk and a group of faculty members at the University of Calgary formed the ad hoc Committee to establish a Peace Centre in 2004. The original name for the body was the Canadian Centre for Peace and Human Security (CCPHS) but was later changed to the Consortium for Peace Studies (CPS). The Consortium was founded in May 2005 with the mission statement of a reduction of the human and environmental cost of violence "through outstanding scholarship, applied research and education in peace studies." The Consortium also sought to foster partnerships for a secure, healthy and creative global environment. Major goals of the Consortium were the establishment of a peace prize, an annual lecture, a visiting fellowship, publishing program, and the establishment of a Bachelor in Peace Studies program.
The Consortium moved to Mount Royal University in spring 2015. While the Consortium as such would no longer exist, the Peace Prize was retained, and a minor in Peace and Violence Studies was established. In 2017, Mount Royal University created the John de Chastelain Peace Studies Initiative.