The Foundation has also supported the ‘Women in Leadership Programme’ from time-to-time run by the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre. Course participants grapple with the complex challenges that face women in their roles as leaders in the workplace, their homes and communities.

Other Achievements of the Centre:

• A global Human Rights Project spearheaded by the Centre for the Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, USA, has selected the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre as its collaborative partner for the African region.
• Internship programs have been established between Seattle University and the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre.
• In collaboration with the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation and the International Center for Transitional Justice based in New York, the Centre hosted two researchers for six months.
• Students from Marquette University in Milwaukee participate in a South Africa Service Learning Program and spend time at the Peace Centre.
• A Master’s Degree in Development Studies offered through the University of the Western Cape.
• The Centre has formed contractual partnerships with three universities: the University of Pretoria, the University of the Western Cape and the University of Dar es Salaam to establish a collaborative Chair in Leadership and Future Studies.
• The Desmond Tutu Peace Centre has hosted two colloquia. The first colloquium’s theme was `Values-Based Leadership in Africa’, held in August 1999. Twenty-three people holding key leadership positions in society attended the colloquium. The second colloquium held in August 2001 was attended by 250 Emerging African Leaders. Publications consisting of the papers presented at these conferences have been widely circulated.
• Initiating the world’s largest humanitarian exhibition, ‘The Hands That Shape Humanity’.

Once completed, the new, state-of-the-art Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa will offer a range of programs and services focusing on peace, leadership training and sustainable development. It will attract an estimated 1.5-million visitors a year.

_____________________________________________________________________

Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation
205 East 64th Street, Suite 503 New York, NY 10065 Tel: 212-750-5504 | Fax: 212-371-2776
info@tutufoundation-usa.org

The Desmond Tutu Peace Foundation (U.S.) and the Desmond Tutu Peace Trust (S.A.) work together to raise funds throughout the world for the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town, South Africa.