Horn of Africa Peace and Development Centre is a non-profit making, civic organization dedicated to the vision of attaining a durable peace and stability along with an accelerated socio-economic development in the African sub-region comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. The organization's vision includes the achievement of an environment, in the Horn of Africa, where the people, currently about 100 million and estimated to increase to 185 million by 2025, will no longer live under a grinding poverty, where pandemic diseases such as HIV/AIDS and malaria are substantially curtailed, if not eliminated, where the rule of law prevails under a governance that is democratic, transparent and accountable, and where an effective partnership in international security and trade will have been strengthened substantially.