The Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding Support Project

The Centre's Conflict Intervention and Peacebuilding Support (CIPS) project provides technical support and training to national, regional, and continental institutions under four themes:

• Human Rights and Conflict Management
  CCR's human rights and conflict management activities aim to contribute to the creation of durable peace, security, and development in Africa through promoting creative and constructive rights-based approaches to the management and resolution of conflicts.
• Gender and Peacebuilding
  CCR's gender and peacebuilding work focuses on imparting gender analysis and gender mainstreaming skills; strengthening technical support to national and regional gender machineries; and promoting implementation of international and regional legal frameworks on women, peace, and security.
• HIV/AIDS and African Militaries
  CCR's new focus area on training on HIV/AIDS and African militaries uses the Centre's expertise with militaries in all five African sub-regions built up since 2004, and builds on CCR's research project on HIV/AIDS and Militaries between 2004 and 2012 which engaged in policy development on militaries as well as on HIV/AIDS and post-conflict societies; and
• Sustained Interventions in Lesotho, Swaziland, and Sudan
  CCR's interventions in the three countries will consist mainly of workshops and dialogue sessions to build the conflict management capacity of key individuals and groups and to reinforce, and support the establishment of, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) systems.

In addition, CIPS has developed three training manuals — on Human Rights and Conflict Management; Women and Leadership; and HIV/AIDS and Peacekeeping Training Manual — which provide Africa-centred training tools, and have been widely disseminated and used to conduct training across the continent.

Africa Programme July 2012 - June 2016: Peacebuilding and Region Building in Africa

During the 2012-2016 phase of the Africa Programme, CIPS will continue to work in post-conflict countries such as Swaziland, Lesotho, and South Sudan, as well as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Burundi where CCR already has much experience.

The Centre has worked extensively with the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) to enhance their capacities to prevent and resolve conflicts, as well as to build sustainable peace.

In relation to its Human Rights and Conflict Management work, CIPS will continue to strengthen the conflict management capacity of African national human rights institutions with which it has worked since 2004.

Africa Programme July 2008 - June 2012: Peacebuilding in Africa

Between 2008 and 20128, the CIPS project focused on four main areas:

• Human Rights and Conflict Management;
• Gender and Peacebuilding;
• Conflict Early Warning and Response; and
• Sustained Interventions.

The Centre also worked with African national human rights institutions across Africa, and on peacebuilding in the DRC and Burundi, aimed at enhancing the capacity of national actors to prevent and resolve conflicts.

Africa Programme July 2004 - June 2008: Strengthening African Institutions

Between 2004 and 2008, in an effort to build their capacities to contribute effectively to conflict prevention and build sustainable peace within local communities, CCR's regional training cluster provided training interventions and technical support to national, sub-regional and United Nations (UN) bodies in Africa under three themes:

• Gender and Peacebuilding;
• Conflict Early Warning and Response; and
• Human Rights and Conflict Management.

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