page_title: Maison de la paix
section_title: The Graduate Institute at the Maison de la paix
hierarchical_section_title: Maison de la paix / The Graduate Institute at the Maison de la paix
caption_attribution_description: English: The Davis Library in the Maison de la paix of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva).
context_page_description: The Maison de la paix is a building owned by the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. The building was designed by Eric Ott of Neuchâtel's IPAS firm. It serves as the headquarters for the Graduate Institute and houses the three Geneva Centres, which comprise the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining, and the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces. It is the main element of the Campus de la paix.
context_section_description: The first two petals were inaugurated in September 2013 with the annual Opening Lecture given by Kofi Annan, one of the Institute's most well-known alumnus. Classes for the Graduate Institute concurrently commenced in the Maison de la paix.
  The Maison de la paix houses the classroom space for most of the Graduate Institute's masters and PhD programme courses as well as the office space for its professors and administration.
  The Maison de la paix is home to the Davis Library, named after alumna and benefactor Kathryn Wasserman Davis and her husband Shelby Cullom Davis. The library hosts 350,000 physical volumes dedicated to the Graduate Institute's areas of study in international and development studies.
caption: The Davis Library
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