The CEPARRED, Panafrican Studies and Research Center in International Relations and Education for Development, concentrates on the development of African countries that can be achieved through the education, regional, national and international cooperation. The Pan African Research Center is involved in a variety of interesting projects, conferences, workshops and training programs, revealing numerous sociological and cultural aspects of the African community.

The center undertakes research projects and collects data (mainly, but not exclusively, focused on Africa), disseminating this information through several types of publications (including a journal and a monograph series, books as well as targeted pamphlets).

Currently, the Pan African Research Center focuses on such significant and highly interesting aspects as Trade Policies, their Social Impact and Political Relations in Africa's Subregional Integration Policy: the case of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); Child Labor and Its Implications for Households' Survival and for Private Companies' Productivity in Africa; Gender, Education, and Global Change in Southern Africa.

The researchers also study such themes as The Impact of School Lunch Programs on School Attendance and Internal Efficiency and on Communities; A Tracer Study of Academic Secondary School Students in Cete d'Ivoire and Brain Drain in Africa.

The project of Gender, Education and Global Change in Southern Africa has become the question that gave rise to numerous CEPARRED seminars, theme conferences as well as publications and reports. While studying the concepts of Gender and Education, the Pan African Research Center Research specifically dwells on the dynamic relationship between male and female populations, their socialization, their education and their participation in their local and regional politics and economic activities.

On March 28, 2002, the Pan African Research Center held the conference in Cornell, focused on Gender and Education and, particularly, on African woman and education. The conference was introduced under the name of "Women and Higher Education in Africa: Engendering Human Capital and Upgrading the Human Right to Schooling". The major goal of the conference was to reveal that the gender inequality and women's lack of access to higher education is a premier obstacle to the future success and development.

This and many other themes, investigated in the Pan African Research Center, are of an increased interest to many scholars and policy makers, as they reveal the nature of the interaction between movements, cultures and social values of people and their influence on policy making at all levels from sub-regional to international. The Pan African Research Center provides a global base for debate and investigation of the issues that are not limited to geographical and political boundaries of Africa.

The majority of reviews, research publications and articles on the Pan African community and studies are the features of JEDIRAF, the CEPARRED's journal. Its current and future publications include a newsletter, booklets and practical summaries of research findings for policymakers (including monographs).