The goals of the council are multi-faceted: to educate, inform, and advance ideas that inform policies that enable sustained human and economic development, wildlife preservation, and environmental conservancy. The council%u2019s vision of Africa is one that sees an end to ethnic and religious tensions, and the efficient use of the continent%u2019s resources to bring about an African renaissance with its own brand of democratic sensibilities in which human rights and dignity are protected and advanced, and its economies less dependent on primary resources.