On 09 June 2017 the Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, Dr Vasu Gounden, along with ACCORD’s Deputy Director Mr Jerome Sachane, and other senior ACCORD Staff, attended the Durban breakfast book launch of Dr Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma’s book “African Union Commission 2012-2017”.
ACCORD has and continues to work closely with the African Union Commission. In 2015 ACCORD presented the Africa Peace Award to the African Union Commission and currently partners with them, along with the Finnish based Crisis Management Initiative on the AU Mediation Support Capacity Project, currently in its 3rd Phase, which aims to support the AU to strengthen its operational and technical capacity in peace mediation and peacebuilding to effectively intervene in conflicts and to promote peace.
