Centre for Research and Action for Peace

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Centre for Research and
Action for Peace
AbbreviationCERAP
Established1962;61 years ago (1962)
Location
Official language
French
Managing Director
Francis P. Kabore [1]
Director of DIHR
Ludovic Lado
Program coordinators
Aristide Dossou
Rodrigue Naortangar
Affiliations Jesuit, Catholic
Website(in French) CERAP
Formerly called
African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES)

Centre for Research and Action for Peace (CERAP) (Centre de Recherche et d'Action pour la Paix), Ivory Coast, began as the African Institute for Economic and Social Development (INADES), with its early focus on agricultural training. In 2003, INADES expanded and changed its name to CERAP.

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History

The CERAP was established in 1962 at the request of the Catholic bishops of West Africa to develop a center of Christian reflection on socio-economic development, with the cooperation of a similar center in France (CERAS), [2] and with the encouragement of political leaders in the Ivory Coast including President Félix Houphouët-Boigny.[ citation needed ]

Programs

On 9 May 2003, INADES changed its name to CERAP, Centre for Research and Action for Peace, and reorganized into four branches:

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References

  1. (in French) Organization
  2. "Social Justice Secretariat". www.sjweb.info. Retrieved 2017-10-18.
  3. Decree No. 489 / MES / DESUP of 5 October 2005