• The European Centre for Conflict Management at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium, one of Europe's leading business schools: The USB and Vlerick Leuven Gent exchange faculty and conduct joint research.
• The Universities of Stellenbosch, Cape Town and Wits, from where we draw additional faculty for training and teaching
• IRENE Institute at Essec Business School, Paris & Singapore
• The Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (Tralac): the ACDS cooperates with this not-for-profit organisation to build trade dispute settlement capacity in the SADC, in governments, the private sector and civil society
• USB Executive Development Ltd: this collaboration leads to the development and delivery of short courses to managers at all levels on various aspects of negotiation and dispute settlement
• Mediation and arbitration service providers, including local and international training providers 
• The head of the Centre acts as the South Africa representative of the mediation chapter of the International Bar Association.
• The Centre is listed as a Category 2 provider by the International Mediation Institute (IMI)

'Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the presence of creative alternatives to it' - Dorothy Thompson