SOCCORED focuses on conflict resolution and community driven community development. SOCCORED involves in capacity-building for handling conflicts, cultural information exchanges, community integration and community-based resource development through training, counseling, advocacy and dissemination of information to promote common sharing positive values and curtail negative differences, as well as observe, promote and protect national and international standards and ethics of human rights, bottom up governance and social development to ensure improving quality of life and create conducive environment to equity and equality for all.
The executions of the SOCCORED’s activities are intended to be carried out in the mode of routine and non-routine programs (projects). The Centre mobilizes resources from its members, local people, national and international donors. The centre holds traditional elders’ forums on quarterly basis where the elders, scholars, societal group representatives and other prominent leaders present achievements, challenges, lessons learned and the way forward recommendations about conflict resolutions and community driven initiatives.
Furthermore, in order to be abreast with current efforts of the Country and that of the International Community in general for the restoration long forgotten law and order means, namely created by the decades-long civil strife that have indiscriminately ravaged us, the Role of the Traditional
leaders and their unique capacity for the tradition-basing reconciliatory and conflict resolving strength are eventually seen as indispensable and an important backup for the whole ongoing processes