PublicationsResearchViolence PreventionLearnings from Participants' Reflections on Strengthening Urban Violence Prevention Through the Community Work ProgrammeCSVR has been researching South Africa’s Community Work Programme (CWP) since 2010. In 2016, the organisation commenced with an effort to strengthen urban violence prevention interventions, carried out by CWP participants, by offering furthering training and support in implementing violence prevention interventions. This report shares some of the key learnings from the CWP participants who were involved in this project… Read More Steven RebelloJune 2, 2019
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence PreventionStrengthening Urban Violence Prevention Through the CWP: Learnings from CSVR's Pre- and Post-Training EvaluationCSVR has conducted research on South Africa’s Community Work Programme (CWP) since 2010. In 2016, the organisation commenced with an eff ort to strengthen urban violence prevention interventions carried out by CWP through their work. These eff orts involved training 145 CWP participants, from four CWP sites across South Africa, in the areas of gender-based violence, working with men, substance… Read More Malose Langa and Steven RebelloJune 2, 2019
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
PublicationsResearchInequalities, Violence PreventionUrban Land and the Genesis of ViolenceThe question of land has been a burning issue in the history of South Africa. Under colonialism and apartheid, various laws and policies were used to dispossess and force black people from their ancestral land. Since the democratic transition in 1994, there have been questions whether land reform or restitution processes have worked. This research report seeks to add to… Read More CSVROctober 4, 2018
PublicationsResearchPeacebuildingLessons from Community-Led Peacebuilding in South AfricaThis report explores a peacebuilding network in contemporary South Africa: the Community Action Groups (CAGs), which were convened by CSVR. It unpacks the role the CAGs can play in ending violence and the structural, political, and economic challenges they face. The report was published in "Local Networks for Peace: Lessons from Community-Led Peacebuilding," edited by Lesley Connolly and Laura Powers… Read More Masana Ndinga-KangaOctober 2, 2018
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
