Seminar Reports
CCR Seminar Reports
CCR's latest seminar report discusses the interplay between local, regional and global forces in relation to peacebuilding challenges in Africa, and focuses on six key themes: the theory and practice of peacebuilding in Africa; strengthening the security sector; justice and human rights; gender and peacebuilding; pan-African institutions; and global institutions and ideologies. The report is based on a policy advisory group meeting held in Gaborone, Botswana from 25-28 August 2009, co-hosted with the University of Botswana and the University of Cambridge.
CCR's latest seminar report examines how Africa's 53 states define and articulate their geo-strategic interests and policies for engaging China within FOCAC, which holds its fourth summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in November 2009. The report is based on a policy advisory group meeting held in Tshwane (Pretoria) on 13 and 14 July 2009, and co-hosted with the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD).
With the increasing and critical importance of migration, this latest CCR report explores the nature of the relationship between Africa and Europe and the potential for further strategic engagement between both continents. The report is based on a policy seminar held in Stellenbosch on 11-13 September 2008.
This seminar, held on 17 and 18 September 2007 in Cape Town, South Africa, brought together 35 scholars and policymakers to examine important issues in the growing relationship between Africa and China. The meeting provided an opportunity to assess Africa's engagement with China in the last 50 years and to address important questions about the dramatic changes in a relationship that was for decades predicated largely on ideological and political solidarity.
This meeting, held on 19 and 20 May 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa, provided a platform for participants from Lesotho, Swaziland and Zimbabwe to share experiences and insights on sustained intervention initiatives implemented by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in the three countries since 2002.
This policy research report addresses prospects for an effective response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic within the context of African peacekeeping and regional peace and security. It is based on three regional advisory group seminars that took place in Windhoek, Namibia (February 2006); Cairo, Egypt (September 2007); and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (November 2007).
This report stems from a policy advisory group seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa on 8-10 June 2008, and co-hosted with the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs of the Republic of Austria; the Southern African Development Community (SADC); and the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR). The seminar brought together policymakers, academics and civil society actors to identify ways of strengthening SADC's capacity to develop security and development initiatives for southern Africa.
This report examines the relationship between Africa and Europe in the 21st Century, and investigates whether this relationship is one of habit or is of real strategic importance to both parties. The report is based on a policy advisory group meeting, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 31 October and 1 November 2007, in which senior policymakers, civil society activists, and academics discussed peacekeeping and military co-operation; migration; and the economic relationship between Africa and Europe.
This report is based on a policy advisory group meeting held by the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), the International Peace Institute (IPI) and the Office of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide (SAPG), in Stellenbosch, South Africa, from 13-15 December 2007. The meeting brought together senior figures from the UN, regional organisations, governments, academia, and civil society to discuss issues of concern regarding effective and timely international responses to situations in which populations were threatened by genocide, war crimes, "ethnic cleansing" or crimes against humanity.
The 24th report in CCR's policy seminar reports series focuses on efforts by the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation (OPDSC) troika -- Namibia, Tanzania, and Angola -- to advance security, governance and development initiatives in the southern African sub-region. The report is based on a seminar held in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on 29-30 May 2007.
The 23rd report in CCR's policy seminar reports series examines the role of various African Union (AU) organs in monitoring children's rights in conflict and post-conflict situations. It further examines their linkages to specific child rights advocacy and monitoring mechanisms. The report is based on a seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 12-13 April 2007.
There is often a demand for justice in Africa's post-conflict societies that, in turn, is often counter-balanced by the need for reconciliation. A key focus of the concerns captured in this 22nd report in CCR's policy seminar reports series is an analysis of the dilemmas posed by the establishment of peace without justice, as opposed to the establishment of justice without peace. The report is based on a seminar held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 17-18 May 2007.
The 21st report in CCR's policy seminar reports series analyses the effectiveness of the African continent's new human rights institutions and recommends strategies that can be adopted to strengthen them. It also emphasizes the importance of political will in ensuring the protection of human rights of the continent's 800 million citizens. The report is based on a seminar held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 28-29 June 2007.
This policy seminar report discusses and identifies concrete ways of engendering reconstruction and peace processes in African societies emerging from conflict. The report is based on a seminar held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 6 and 7 November 2006.
CCR's latest report captures the debates of the seminar, "Africa's Responsibility to Protect", which took place on 23 and 24 April 2007 in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa. The report addresses the "responsibility to protect" principle –– the legal and ethical commitment by the international community to protect citizens from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and/or ethnic cleansing. The degree to which the "responsibility to protect" citizens has been adhered to by national governments within and outside the continent is assessed; and experiences and lessons from recent conflicts in Africa are reviewed and analysed.
This policy advisory group meeting, held in Maputo, Mozambique, from 14 to 16 December 2006, set out to assess the role of the principal organs and the specialised agencies of the UN in Africa.
This report, based on a seminar held on 30 and 31 October 2006 in Accra, Ghana, captures the essence of current debates in the areas of governance, development, and security sector reform and post-conflict peacebuilding — issues that could largely determine whether West Africa is at peace or at war in the new millenium.
This seminar, held on 16 and 17 October 2006, in Cape Town, South Africa, was the first regional consultation on the establishment and operationalisation of the Mediation Support Unit (MSU) within the UN Department of Political Affairs in New York, United States of America.
This sub-regional seminar, held from 10 to 12 April 2006 in Douala, Cameroon, provided an opportunity for civil society actors, representatives of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the United Nations (UN) and other relevant players to analyse and understand the causes and consequences of conflict in central Africa.
This meeting, in Maputo, Mozambique, on 3 and 4 August 2006, analysed the relevance for Africa of the creation, in December 2005, of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, and examined how countries emerging from conflict could benefit from its establishment.
This policy advisory group seminar on 20 and 21 April 2006 in Franschhoek, Western Cape, South Africa, assessed the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed in January 2005 by the Government of the Republic of the Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/A).
This two-day policy seminar on 26 and 27 June 2006 took place in Cape Town, South Africa, and examined the scope and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and southern Africa from a human security perspective.
This policy and research seminar, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 27 and 28 March 2006, developed and disseminated new knowledge on the impact of HIV/AIDS in South Africa in the three key areas of: democratic practice; sustainable development; and peace and security.
This two-day policy advisory group seminar in Windhoek, Namibia, on 9 and 10 February 2006 examined issues of HIV/AIDS and Militaries in southern Africa.
This meeting, held in Cape Town, South Africa, on 27 and 28 October 2005, reviewed the progress of the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women and Peacebuilding in Africa in the five years since its adoption by the United Nations in 2000.
This meeting, held in Maseru, Lesotho, on 14 and 15 October 2005, explores civil society's role in relation to southern Africa, democratic governance, its nexus with government, and draws on comparative experiences in peacebuilding.
This seminar in Cape Town, South Africa, from 20 - 22 August 2005 made policy recommendations on how the AU's institutions, including NEPAD, could achieve their aims and objectives.
The links between human security and the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, and the potential role of African leadership and the African Union in addressing this crisis were analysed at this policy advisory group meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 9 and 10 September 2005.
The role and capacity of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS) was the focus at this meeting in Oudekraal, Cape Town, South Africa, on 18 and 19 June 2005.
African perspectives on the United Nations' (UN) High-Level Panel report on Threats, Challenges and Change were considered at this policy advisory group meeting in Somerset West, Cape Town, South Africa, on 23 and 24 April 2005.
The role and capacity of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) Organ on Politics, Defence and Security (OPDS) was the focus at this meeting in Misty Hills, Johannesburg, South Africa, on 11 and 12 December 2004.
The role that South Africa has played on the African continent and the challenges that persist in South Africa's domestic transformation 10 years into democracy were assessed at this meeting in Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, from 29 July - 1 August 2004.
The inter-related and vexing issues of political instability in Africa and international security within the framework of UN reform were specifically focused on at this policy seminar, held from 21 - 23 May 2004 in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. |
Peacebuilding in Post-Cold War Africa: Problems, Progress, and Prospects
Taming the Dragon? Defining Africa's Interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC)
From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa: Africa and Europe in a New Century
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? China and Africa: Engaging the World's Next Superpower
Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding in Southern Africa: Civil Society, Governments, and Traditional Leaders
HIV/AIDS and Militaries in Africa
Security and Development in Southern Africa
EurAfrique? Africa and Europe in a New Century
Preventing Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect: Challenges for the UN, Africa, and the International Community
Southern Africa: Building an Effective Security and Governance Architecture for the 21st Century
Children and Armed Conflicts in Africa
Peace versus Justice? Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals in Africa
Africa's Evolving Human Rights Architecture
Women in Post-Conflict Societies in Africa
