The Horn of Africa Peace and Development Center is a non-profit and a civic organization. The Center is dedicated to the vision of attaining a durable peace and stability along with an accelerated socio-economic development in the African sub-region comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The Center's vision includes the achievement of an environment, in the Horn of Africa, where the people, currently about 100 million and estimated to increase to 185 million by 2025, will no longer live under a grinding poverty, where pandemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria are substantially curtailed, if not eliminated, where the rule of law prevails under a governance that is democratic, transparent and accountable, and where an effective partnership in international security and trade will have been strengthened substantially.
The Horn of Africa Peace and Development Center's mission is to initiate and facilitate informed discussions, research and studies on all vital issues that have relevance to to the sub-region in order to generate effective and practical ideas as well as strategies and action plans that can be implemented by the respective governments, concerned regional and international organizations, and civic bodies.
The activities of the Center focus on:
Economics, trade, social, political, and environmental research,
Conferences and seminars, democracy and good governance workshops, and commissioned studies,
Targeted scholarships and training sessions
The Center’s website features an online news center that publishes conference papers, resources and literature on environmental events and activities.
