The Kelman Institute is engaged in civil society conflict transformation and peacebuilding on the international and intra-societal level. The aims are fostering peace through violence prevention, peace mediation and historical reconciliation.

The Kelman Institute was founded by Mag.a Gudrun Kramer und Dr. Wilfried Graf in 2005 under the name „Institute for Integrative Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding” as a non-profit organization. Between 2006 and 2010 it cooperated with the “Institut für Kriminal- und Rechtssoziologie (IRKS)” in Vienna. In December 2011 the IICP was renamed “Herbert C. Kelman Institute for Interactive Conflict Transformation (HKI or Kelman Institute)”.