Programmes
Dialogue Programme
- To enable a broad understanding of issues affecting Africa and her place in the world
- To facilitate the emergence of an African lenses on issues
- To advocate for mainstreaming of African perspectives on diplomacy and leadership
Policy Research
- To advance scholarship on pertinent issues
- To facilitate penetration of scholarship input in policy making
- To assist policy makers to infuse scholarship in their decision making
- To popularise African solutions and leadership
Areas of Research and Programmes
Intelligence
CADL convenes experts and practitioners to deliberate on issues affecting national security discourse and practise.
Energy and Sustainability
CADL is a hub of conversations and dialogue on choices and implementation of solutions to energy security in a sustainable manner.
Trade and International Business
The centre seeks to popularise, problematize and facilitate solutionist thinking around the African Free Continental Trade agreement, intra-regional trade and economic partnership agreements.
Strategic Studies
The Foresight and Strategic Studies Unit leads research and intervention output on futures and scenario development, in South Africa and beyond.
Maritime Security
The centre convenes experts to track, monitor and enable the compliance of African maritime nations to global and continental protocols for sustainable development of maritime space.
Transnational Threats|
The centre, through a network of experts cultivates strategic thinking and capacity building to meet the challenges of extremism, radicalisation, terrorism, transnational crime as well as their combined consequences and impact.
Diplomacy, Geopolitics and International Security
The centre is a knowledge hub on how Africa’s diplomacy can be constructively used to address continental security and the continent’s place in the world.
Defence and Security
The centre is part of continental thinking about current and future defence security solutions to ensure a stable continent that can attain its development goals.
Cultural Diplomacy
As a contribution towards continental social cohesion and coexistence the centre studies the potential and impact of cultural diplomacy initiatives between countries and within the continent.
Diplomatic Law
The centre seeks to contribute to the understanding of rules governing diplomacy and multilateralism.
Strategic Litigation
The centre participates in public discourse by researching, popularising, reviewing and assessing strategic litigation.