Organization:Centre for Conflict Resolution

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The Centre for Conflict Resolution is a social research institute of the University of Cape Town.

It was founded in 1968 by Professor H.W. van der Merwe in Cape Town, South Africa , to conduct academic research on relations between "racial" groups, with the goal of promoting mutual acceptance and co-operation.

Initially named the Abe Bailey Institute for Inter-Racial Studies after the original funding organisation, the Abe Bailey Trust, the Institute was renamed the Centre for Intergroup Studies in 1973.[1]

During the 1980s this organization was attempting to address conflict resolution resulting from the South African policy of apartheid.[2]

Since 1990 the Centre is known as the Centre for Conflict Resolution.

The Centre is currently housed in the Coornhoop, a 17th century farmhouse at 2 Dixton Road in Observatory, Cape Town.

References

  1. Grundy, Kenneth W. (1973), Confrontation and Accommodation in South Africa, University of California Press, p. 3, ISBN 0520022718, https://books.google.com/books?id=mb7dE6K6gJoC&pg=PA3. 
  2. Ramsbotham, Oliver; Woodhouse, Tom; Miall, Hugh (2011), Contemporary Conflict Resolution, Polity, p. 4, ISBN 978-0745649740, https://books.google.com/books?id=-IbuQE02-KkC&pg=PA4. 

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