From 13 to 17 July 2026, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) convened a strategic workshop in Johannesburg, ...

A two-day training in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, brings together senior officials, diplomats, parliamentarians and security sector practitioners to strengthen national capacity for dialogue, negotiation and ...

UNGA 81 showed a world that still overwhelmingly turns to the United Nations to solve problems that no country can tackle alone As the high-level week of the 81st United Nations (UN) General Assembly ...

The UN Secretary-General’s 2026 Review of the Future of All Forms of United Nations Peace Operations calls for a fundamental reset of peace operations to meet the demands of a changing geopolitical ...

Grassroots mechanisms like PRCs are a working part of the continent’s peace and security architecture, that has not yet been fully recognised Meanwhile, in North Darfur, a version of that same model ...

There is a growing sense in South Africa that existing participation mechanisms are tokenistic, and that citizens cannot access information or influence government plans through ordinary means As ...

On 17 February 2026 the Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, Dr Vasu Gounden, was invited to be a resource person at the Intelligence and Security Services in Africa’s (CISSA’s) Meeting of ...

The African Journal on Conflict Resolution is a peer-reviewed journal published by the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Disputes (ACCORD) for the multidisciplinary subject field of ...

Coalition governments have become a common feature within South Africa’s political landscape, especially at the local government level. However, the reality is that these coalition governments operate ...

On 25 August 2025, the Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, Dr Vasu Gounden, was invited to serve as a virtual resource person at the 20th Committee of Intelligence and Security Services in ...

The palaver tree, present in diverse cultures from the Igbo and Yoruba in Nigeria to the BaKongo and Fang in Central Africa, functions as both a physical space and an epistemic practice for resolving ...

Headquarters of the G5 Sahel joint force based in Sévaré in the Mopti region of Mali. Photo: MINUSMA/Harandane Dicko. The security crisis in the Sahel offers a clear example of challenges faced, ...