ABSTRACT
The African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) is a South-African-based non-governmental confl ict management organization working throughout Africa to bring appropriate African solutions to the challenges posed by confl ict on the African continent. The model is based on “three pillars”: intervention, training, and research. The current focus of ACCORD’s programs are: confl ict analysis and research; public sector confl ict management training; track two diplomacy initiatives on the continent; peacekeeping training program in all the Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries; training for women in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa regions; a Preventive Action program in SADC; and a program that studies Constitutionalism in Africa. Recognized by the United Nations as a model for Africa, the knowledge and experience of the organization is often called on from as far afi eld as East Timor.
