Centre Tricontinental

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. CETRI is active in five fields: research, publications, training, coaching, and documentation. Some of the main themes we have covered recently relate to ‘new North-South issues in globalisation’, dynamics of social actors in the South, relations between protest movements and political power in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the scope of social and political alternatives in the South, and the rationale and consequences of structural adjustment and development aid.