CETRI - Centre tricontinental

Über uns

The Tricontinental Centre (CETRI), is a Non-Governmental Organisation founded in 1976 and based in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). CETRI is committed to study, publications and training in issues of development and North-South relations.
Its main aim is to provide a transmission channel for the voices of the South and contribute to a critical examination of the dominant conceptions and practices of development in the era of neo-liberal globalisation. Emphasis is on understanding and discussing the role of social and political actors in the South in their struggle for social, political, cultural and ecological rights.

Mission
We contribute to ensuring that development cooperation and international solidarity actors and opinion makers build a lucid and founded approach to social actors from the South and their action with a critical and up-to-date knowledge of the main development challenges and North-South relations in globalization. We thus participate in strengthening their capacity for action, proposal, and pressure in matters of awareness, education, advocacy and political decision-making.
We do this by:
• continuously working on in-depth analyzes of social, political and economic realities in developing countries.
• organizing information, education, training and advisory support activities.
• providing our target audiences "opinion makers", "informed" audiences, multiplier groups, development education actors, etc., keys to understanding the major challenges that globalization, in its logic and its effects, poses to “developed” and “developing” societies.
• relaying and discussing analytical, critical "southern points of view" and promoters of practical or theoretical alternatives to the dominant development model.

CETRI is active in five fields: research, publications, training, coaching, and documentation.

Ongoing activities
• Alternatives Sud (Southern alternatives) is a three-monthly publication created in 1994 with the aim of making the points of view known of researchers, activists and intellectuals in the South concerning development and globalisation.
• “Etats des résistances dans le Sud” (State of resistance in the South) is an annual worldwide overview of the diversity and strength of social struggle for democracy and against neoliberal globalisation.
• To keep abreast of news about social actors and movements in the South almost daily recent articles on and by social movements in the South are posted on our website (www.cetri.be). Thus the website provides a multilingual online service of news and background articles about mobilisation for democratisation in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
• The documentation centre Revues du Sud (journals of the South) consists of a large selection of print as well as digital journals from the South and is respectively located in Louvain-la-Neuve and on our website. Here the visitor has access to up-to-date magazines from Asia, Africa and Latin America focusing on issues of development, Nord-South relations and globalisation.

In addition CETRI conducts studies and research on various topics, compiles teaching materials and educational books, organises training courses and gives public lectures on their core areas of interest.

Bernard Duterme is the Director of the Centre Tricontinental – CETRI.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.