PRIF's research is organized within six research departments (RD):

 

RD I: Policies for Security Governance of States

RD II: International Organisations and International Law

RD III: Private Actors in the Transnational Sphere

RD IV: Governance and Societal Peace

 

Research Departments I bis IV conduct projects within the current research programme "Just Peace Governance".

 

Research Department VI "Non-Program-Bound Research" comprises of the two research groups "The Cultural Dynamics of Political Globalisation" and  "Contested Normativity: Norm Conflicts in Global Governance".

 

Research Department V "Information and Knowledge Transfer" concerns services (library, public relations) and also those activities which cannot be easily attributed to the other research departments or to the research programme and that are meant to provide policy advice.