IJR’s Research and Policy Programme gathers and analyses public opinion data that is critical for the understanding of policy processes on reconciliation in Africa and, increasingly, further abroad. The programme is home to the world’s longest running public opinion survey on national reconciliation, the South African Reconciliation Barometer (SARB), and it is the Southern African core partner of the Africa’s most prestigious public opinion survey into matters of democratic- and economic governance, the Afrobarometer (AB). Together with Afrobarometer, the Centre for Democratic Development in Africa (CDD) in Ghana, the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) in Nairobi, and Laws Africa, it also forms part of the Data for Governance (D4G) Alliance, which seeks to build African capacity in the use of public opinion data for use in public policy processes. This track record positions the Programme to collaborate with national, continental, an international partners to foster innovative approaches to research and policy-making around reconciliation, social cohesion, and inclusive economic development. Over the years it has offered such support to several institutions that have embarked in reconciliation measurement initiatives. At present it cooperates with a Sri Lankan consortium of organisations in the implementation, fielding, and analysis of such an instrument, the Sri Lanka Barometer, that tracks relations between Sri Lankans in the wake of the country’s civil war that ended in 2009.