Services Offered by CCR

Training Workshops and Projects

• Basic mediation skills
• Advanced mediation skills
• Dispute resolution systems design
• Conflict analysis
• Team building
• Creative and constructive approaches to conflict in school communities
• Mediation in school communities
• Capacity-building in conflict management for local authorities
• Management of conflict and multi-cultural diversity for police personnel
• Conflict resolution for senior government officials
• Conflict resolution and human rights
• Negotiation skills
• Specialised training in accordance with the needs of clients
• Development of training material, manuals, case studies and teaching techniques adapted for the African context
• Internships and professional exchanges

Support Services

• A Peace Library with a rich collection of material on a broad spectrum of topics related to peace and conflict is open to visitors during office hours
• Assistance from library staff in locating material on peace and conflict, including assistance with electronic requests
• Preparation and dissemination of training material
• Consultancy and technical assistance to international bodies, national, provincial and local government, non-governmental organisations; and community groups
• Supporting gender development in relations to conflict management
• Seminars on various topical issues, policy matters and current events
• Public education on constructive approaches to conflict and related issues
• Short loans of resources on conflict management in the school environment to local schools via outreach library bags

Facilitation and Mediation

• Independent third-party mediation and facilitation at the request of parties in dispute
• Design and implementation of dispute resolution systems for government and non-government bodies
• Crisis intervention in situations of violence

Research and Academic Teaching

Academic and policy research on the following topics:

• South Africa's role in Africa
• The United Nation's (UN) role in Africa
• The African Union and the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)
• HIV/AIDS and security
• South Africa's peacebuilding challenges
• Post-conflict peacebuilding: the AU, the UN, and civil society
• HIV/AIDS and post-conflict societies
• Peacebuilding: Africa and the European Union (EU)
• Human rights and conflict management

Academic and tertiary teaching via:

• Lectures and seminars on conflict resolution and related areas at the invitation of local universities and technikons