PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Gender-based Violence, Inequalities, Social Cohesion, Urban Safety, Violence PreventionResearch Brief: What Drives Violence in South AfricaThis research brief outlines the literature on drivers of violence in South Africa and then puts it in context by summarising views on violence among community members who work with CSVR in four local communities. The brief shows that violence prevention initiatives need to move beyond a cause-and-effect approach that focuses on episodes and types of violence. We should see… Read More Jasmina BrankovicApril 6, 2019
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Transitional Justice"People's Power" in the Age of Human Rights: Victims' Contributions to Education in Post-Apartheid South AfricaConcentrating on the transitional preoccupation with mainstreaming human rights culture, the chapter contrasts human rights education as expressed in South Africa’s post-1994 formal curriculum and as reflected in the informal educational activities of the national apartheid victims’ organization, Khulumani Support Group. It suggests that Khulumani’s educational activities draw on the example of apartheid-era struggles for alternative and inclusive education as… Read More Jasmina BrankovicOctober 2, 2018
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchClimate Change, Transitional JusticeThe Global Climate Regime and Transitional JusticeGeopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy. Mechanisms and insights from transitional justice have been used in over thirty countries across a range of conflicts at the interface of historical responsibility and imperatives for collective futures. However, lessons from transitional justice theory and practice have not been… Read More Jasmina BrankovicOctober 2, 2018
PublicationsResearchTransitional JusticeAdvocating Transitional Justice in Africa: The Role of Civil SocietyThis edited volume examines the role of local civil society in shaping understandings and processes of transitional justice in Africa – a nursery of transitional justice ideas for well over two decades. It brings together practitioners and scholars with intimate knowledge of these processes to evaluate the agendas and strategies of local civil society, and offers an opportunity to reflect… Read More Hugo van der Merwe and Jasmina BrankovicSeptember 19, 2018
PolicyPublicationsGender-based Violence, Social Cohesion, Violence PreventionWomen's Contribution to Social Cohesion and Violence Prevention Through the Community Work ProgrammeThis policy brief looks at the prominent role (older) women play in the Community Work Programme (CWP). Focusing on women participants’ involvement in community work and local social networks, it demonstrates their contribution to building social cohesion and driving crime and violence prevention activities through the CWP. After presenting the case of the Manenberg site, where women participants have done… Read More Jasmina BrankovicSeptember 23, 2017
PublicationsResearchInequalities, Transitional Justice, Violence PreventionConducting Participatory Action Research with Apartheid Survivors: Lessons from 'Addressing Socioeconomic Drivers of Violence in Khulumani Communities'In 2015–2016, the apartheid survivors’ organisation Khulumani Support Group in the Western Cape (KSGWC) and its partner the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) set out to explore new ways for a victims’ group and a nongovernmental organisation to work together on addressing socioeconomic exclusion in the context of political transition. Seeking to deepen their levels of… Read More Jasmina BrankovicApril 17, 2017
