
ACCORD Trustee H.E. Ambassador Billy Modise passes away
It is with great sadness that ACCORD announces the death of ACCORD Trustee H.E. Ambassador Billy Modise, who passed away on Wednesday evening, 20 June 2018, after a long illness.

It is with great sadness that ACCORD announces the death of ACCORD Trustee H.E. Ambassador Billy Modise, who passed away on Wednesday evening, 20 June 2018, after a long illness.


The year 2018 is significant on the global calendar, as we celebrate the birth of Nelson Mandela exactly 100 years ago. Mandela – the lawyer, the political activist, the prisoner,

Frederique de Man, the Dutch Ambassador to Rwanda, co-hosts workshop for Embassies of the Netherlands in the Great Lakes Region.

Advocate Gounden presented at a UN Roundtable on Security Sector Reform and a Meeting on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace.

Advocate Vasu Gounden met with H.E. Ambassador Kwesi Quartey on 18 April 2018.

One year ago, about 80 leading women from 24 African countries, friends and partners, held an earnest and deep conversation on the important issue of women’s inclusion in pre-confict mediation,

On 02 March 2018 the Founder and Executive Director of ACCORD, Adv. Vasu Gounden was invited to be a resource person at the Indlulamithi National Scenarios Research Conference, which is

Mr Kumi Naidoo was provided the opportunity to learn more about ACCORD’s work and discuss the current situation across Africa.

Seminar aimed at bringing together historians, political scientists and diplomats to discuss competing narratives with which historians address colonialism.