PublicationsResearchPsychosocial Support, Torture and State ViolenceQuestions about Community Work (Appendix B)In order to produce a strategy for community work in the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's (CSVR's) anti-torture project, it has been found useful to generate a set of questions or areas of interest that should be covered by future descriptions of interventions. These include questions about context, target group, theories of intervention, indicators and resources required… Read More Steffen Jensen and Megan BantjiesDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchPsychosocial Support, Torture and State Violence, Violence PreventionHow Others Have Done It: A Desk Study of Community Projects Related to Torture (Appendix C)With the aim of informing the development of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's (CSVR's) community work model to address torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, this desk study examines six community projects conducted globally. Details of four of the interventions were found in the literature and information about two projects was gathered in interviews with… Read More Megan BantjiesDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Torture and State ViolenceA Methodological Dilemma: The Street Corner Approach Versus an Institutional Approach to Accessing Victims of Torture and CIDT (Appendix D)The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) developed two research projects to identify and profile survivors of current torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the new South Africa. Two research methods were used to investigate patterns and effects of torture and victims’ access to medical, legal and psychosocial services - the street corner approach and… Read More Malose LangaDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Migrants and Xenophobia, Torture and State Violence, Trauma and TransitionWomen Empowerment: A Case Study of a Refugee Women's Group at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (Appendix E)This report evaluates the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's (CSVR's) work with a group of refugee women affected by torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. Over a period of six years, facilitators from CSVR met with a group of refugee women with the overall aim of facilitating their economic and social empowerment and setting in motion… Read More Malose LangaDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Psychosocial Support, Torture and State ViolenceGuidelines For Home Visits (Appendix F)Home visits were undertaken as a stand-alone intervention as part of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's (CSVR's) community project to address the psychosocial effects of torture among ex-combatants on the West Rand of Johannesburg. This report discusses the lessons, challenges and ethical dilemmas encountered in conducting home visits in 2008 and 2009. This evaluation process aimed… Read More Malose LangaDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence in TransitionPolitical Transition and Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, Kenya and ZimbabweThis article draws on research conducted in Kenya, South Africa, and Zimbabwe that focused on violence in the context of political transition. The paper examines the relation between political transition and sexual and gender-based violence in the three countries. The paper argues that it is critical to recognise sexual and gender-based violence as bound to systemic gendered inequality if such… Read More Kylie Thomas, Masheti Masinjila and Eunice BereDecember 9, 2013
