About CCR

The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) was established by the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, in 1968 as an independent non-profit organisation. The Centre has developed an international reputation for excellence and has solid expertise in training, mediation, and policy research and development.

The organisation's expertise places particular emphasis on capacity-building in conflict prevention, management and resolution, and, to this end, works closely with continental and regional organisations and programmes on the African continent.

In the first ever comprehensive survey of 5,500 think tanks in 170 countries worldwide, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Programme, CCR was ranked the leading think tank in Africa in 2008, and is the only African organisation listed in the top 50 non-US think tanks globally.

Mission

The Centre for Conflict Resolution aims to contribute towards a just and sustainable peace in Africa by promoting constructive, creative and co-operative approaches to the resolution of conflict through training, policy development, research, and capacity-building.

Vision

CCR is a pan-African organisation playing a leading role in contributing towards the resolution of conflict and the reduction of violence in Africa.

Goals

• To document and disseminate the results of CCR's policy research and peacebuilding activities;
• To facilitate the development of skills by individuals, groups and institutions for managing political and social conflict at local, national, and regional levels;
• To initiate and contribute to local, national, and regional peace and conflict transformation initiatives;
• To influence policy development through the production of academically-rigorous research and best practice;
• To promote democratic values, as well as public awareness and practice of constructive conflict resolution;
• To contribute to the development of African researchers and practitioners in the field of conflict resolution;
• To support the research, training, and policymaking capacity of state institutions; and
• To analyse critically post-apartheid South Africa's political, socio-economic and foreign policy challenges and to support efforts to integrate the country into the rest of Africa.