Our Programs
The projects of the Institute are integrated to the African Peace Activities
(APA). In other words,
APA has become the leading programme of the Goree Institute for the coming years and within the framework of its new strategic orientation.
The various projects move dynamically between practical interventions, and research, always passing through phases of critical and creative reflection. This provides the basis for sustained innovation, creation and pertinence.
African Peace Activities
(APA)
The African Peace Activities Programme is designed to:
(1) Systematically collect and diffuse knowledge on regional and national conflicts;
(2) Promote research on the underlying causes of the increasing use of violence as a means to resolve conflicts in Africa;
(3) Promote and make known innovative and informal
peace building procedures of that are successfully applied by concerned citizens themselves and create, to this end, a pan African network “Alliance of African Initiatives for the Stabilisation of Peace in West Africa” (African Peace Constituency);
(4) Facilitate dialogue between conflicting political parties or factions;
(5) Diffuse knowledge on all aspects of electoral processes and electoral reform;
and
(6) Reinforce electoral processes in Africa along with the authorities that administer them.
Through
these
activities,
the
APA
Programme
facilitates
the
search
for new
approaches
to
understanding
and
ending
violent
conflicts,
which
bear
a
heavy
burden
on Africa's
democratic
practices
and
development
projects.
The activities that constitute the APA programme include two components:
• The Forum component :
Regrouping all research, discussion and publishing activities;
and
• The Platform Component :
Regrouping all activities involving
networking, the facilitation of political
dialogue, peace promotion activities, and
exchanges of experience.
Our activities further
concentrate on the cultural and developmental
dimensions of peace building and good
governance without which long-term
political and social stability are not
feasible.
Our approach favors partnerships with organizations
similarly engaged in peace building, as we
believe only mutual reinforcement will get
us closer to our common goal.
