The Centre for Risale & Hizmet Studies emerged out of a need for cooperation between the Risale Academy, Risale-i Nur Okulu (Turkish) and Hizmet School programs of the Respect Graduate School. Given the common roots of Risale-i Nur and Hizmet, the often misunderstood theory and practice relationship between the two and an overlapping of both the experts and the students of the two disciplines, this was only a natural development.

Though both the Risale and Hizmet courses continue to be the admiralship programs of the Centre, the synergy formed out of the merger invited for new projects. Today, the Centre for Risale & Hizmet Studies offers a range or courses from religious mentorship for secondary schools students to Islamic leadership for university students, publishes an online Journal for Risale & Hizmet Studies and organizes a bi-annual conference on the same topic.