The Centre for Peace Studies was inaugurated during the 175th year celebration of the Madras Christian College, on the 17th February 2012, by Nancy Chapman, the President of the United Board for Christian Higher Education. The centre is active in multiple facets promoting a culture of peace and equipping those in the academia for continuing to spread the same into the larger society through academic exercise. The centre undertakes research and publications in the cause of promoting peace and peace education nationally, regionally and globally.
The centre collaborates with other agencies interested and involved in the goal of promoting peace. Training of teachers in institutions of higher learning was undertaken by the Centre in conflict-ridden places such as Sri Lanka, Dimapur in Nagaland and in Chennai. Several seminars and workshops on peace education, curriculum development for Peace Studies were conducted at MCC ever since the inauguration of the Centre with many prominent leaders and scholars from all over the world as resource persons.
