The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) Cape Town, South Africa, invites you and members of your organisation to the seminar launch of the book "The Toxic Mix" by Graeme Bloch.
With national elections and a referendum on independence for South Sudan due to take place in the next two years, speakers at this public dialogue seminar hosted by CCR discussed options for a viable roadmap for peace in Darfur and the greater Sudan region. Issues of peace versus justice, reconciliation, and healing were addressed.
CCR's Annual Report 2007-2008 is a comprehensive overview of the work of the Centre for Conflict Resolution during the last two years. Highlights of the report include a 40-year history of CCR, its ranking as Africa's leading think tank in 2008, and messages of congratulations and support from partners and stakeholders.
CCR's latest policy advisory group seminar report, titled "Taming the Dragon? Defining Africa's Interests at the Forum on China-Africa Co-operation (FOCAC)", 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, next month.
In the Africa Focus column of the Sunday Independent (1 November 2009), CCR Executive Director Dr Adekeye Adebajo says the recent award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the US, is rather similar to his Africa policy. "In both cases, the data is still to be generated after barely nine months in office, and both represent more promise than practice, a triumph of hope over experience."
The Think Tank Index, the first comprehensive ranking of 5,500 think tanks worldwide in nearly 170 countries, was published in the January/February 2009 issue of the prestigious Foreign Policy magazine in the US. The survey ranks the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) as the leading think tank in Africa, and the Centre is the only African organisation listed in the top 50 non-US think tanks globally. The report was written by James McGann of the University of Pennsylvania.
