Center for Conflict Resolution

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Promoting a Culture of Peace

Transforming Communities

Through advocacy, dialogue, peace education, research, and grassroots action, CECORE works with youth, women, civil society, and governments to create safer, more resilient communities. Our vision is a world where conflicts are transformed creatively and non-violently, paving the way for justice, security, and lasting peace.

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CECORE: Building locally owned peace and safer communities across Uganda and the Eastern & Central Africa region since 1995.

We Promote a Culture of Peace

The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CECORE) is a Ugandan non-profit organization dedicated to promoting peaceful and sustainable solutions to conflict. Since 1995, we have empowered individuals, communities, and institutions to prevent violence, resolve disputes, and build inclusive societies across Uganda, the Great Lakes, and the Horn of Africa.

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Our Approach to Peacebuilding

At CECORE, we believe that lasting peace is built from within communities, not imposed from outside. For over  30 years, we have walked alongside people in Uganda and across the Great Lakes region, equipping them with the dialogue, mediation, and reconciliation skills that outlast any single project.

We partner with a wide range of actors, from grassroots community groups to national government institutions, because sustainable peace requires everyone at the table.

Our training programmes are tailor-made to the specific cultural, linguistic, and social context of each group we work with. Whether we are building the capacity of a local women’s group in a post-conflict district or supporting a government agency to embed conflict-sensitive planning into its operations, we bring the same depth of commitment.

Where needs fall outside our direct mandate, we connect partners to our broad network of trusted organisations, ensuring no community is left without a response.

CECORE PROJECTS

We work with people especially in conflict-affected areas to build their awareness and skills so they can prevent, resolve, and transform conflict; our approach is based on deep understanding, listening, and tailored, timely interventions.

Building Lasting Peace.

CECORE has worked directly with communities across Uganda, training people to prevent violence, resolve disputes, and heal from conflict. We don’t just respond to crises; we build the local skills and structures that make peace sustainable.

Our work reaches conflict-affected areas in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa, with a special focus on empowering women, youth, and vulnerable groups through locally-led, non-violent approaches.

Peace Has a Track Record Here

CECORE played a direct role in the peace agreement between the Uganda National Rescue Front and the Ugandan Government, a negotiated settlement that still holds today. When the World Bank needed someone to bring together divided stakeholders over the Bujagali Dam project, they called CECORE. Dialogue cooled what had become a deeply charged standoff.

This is the kind of work we do. Not from a distance, but at the table, in the room, where it matters.

Conflict Does Not Wait. Neither Do We.

When tension rises in a community, institution, or organisation, early response makes all the difference. CECORE offers mediation, dialogue facilitation, and conflict analysis services to organisations, government bodies, and communities that need a trusted, neutral hand at a critical moment.

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CECORE is governed by a Board, senior management team and advisors, supported by clear committees and policies
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Peace Education

Nurturing Non-Violence, Resilience & Active Citizenship Peace Education Empowering children and youth with the knowledge, skills and values to prevent

Climate & Conflict

Building Local Resilience & Preventing Climate-related Violence Climate & Conflict Strengthening community capacities to identify, prevent and mediate climate-driven security

Advocacy & Policy Influence

Building Peace Advocacy & Policy Influences Promoting evidence-based policy, inclusive participation and local ownership to prevent violent conflict and strengthen

Women, Youth & Peacebuilding

Women, Youth & Peacebuilding Transforming Communities Empowering women and young people to lead peace, transform conflict and strengthen resilient communities.

GPPAC – Eastern & Central Africa

Eastern & Central Africa GPPAC Strengthening local peacebuilders and connecting grassroots peace initiatives to national, regional and global policy. Reports

General FAQ’s

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CECORE (Center for Conflict Resolution) is a Ugandan non-profit organisation founded in 1995 that promotes peaceful conflict transformation across Uganda, the Great Lakes region, and the Horn of Africa.

Our mission is to empower communities especially women, youth, and other vulnerable groups to prevent and resolve conflict through non-violent, locally-led approaches. Our vision is peaceful, resilient communities where conflict is managed constructively.

CECORE works primarily in Uganda with programming in the West Nile, Karamoja, Rwenzori and other regions, and carries out regional activities across the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa.