They are a non-profit non-governmental organization, with the main purpose of generating knowledge and social intervention, through qualified research and analysis of reality in the fields of security; internal armed conflict; post-conflict; criminality; governance, governance and democracy; human rights; and conflicts associated with development; to influence public opinion and before decision makers of the institutional and private order, generating changes and transformations that contribute to the construction of peace, national reconciliation and the strengthening of democracy.

Principles
The promotion of peace, national reconciliation and democracy.
Plurality.
Independence in the analysis.
The promotion of the gender perspective in the activities of the organization.