PublicationsResearchReparations and Victim Services, Torture and State Violence, Transitional JusticePan-African Reparation Perspectives: Special Bulletin on Reparation for Victims of Torture in AfricaThis special bulletin contains several short articles relating to transitional justice in Africa, focusing in particular on reparations for torture. Each article discusses a particular African regional institution or piece of legislation which can be used to attain justice for victims of torture in Africa. Read More APDH, CSVR, EIPR, PRAWA and REDRESSJuly 2, 2013
PolicyPublicationsResearchReparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticePerspectives Panafricaines sur la RéparationUn bulletin spécial sur la réparation pour les victimes de la torture en Afrique. Read More CSVRJuly 2, 2013
PolicyPublicationsResearchPeacebuilding, Transitional JusticePeace, Justice and Accountability After War and Dictatorship Prospects for the African ContextThe Peace Building section of the Belgian Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, together with the Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Contemporary Society (Belgium) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (South Africa), hosted the workshop 'Peace, justice and accountability after war and dictatorship: Prospects for the African context' from 7-8 March in Cape… Read More CSVRApril 27, 2013
PublicationsResearchVigilantism, Violence in TransitionThe Power of Naming: 'Senseless Violence' and Violent Law in Post-Apartheid South AfricaThis report focuses on vigilantism, on the practice of ‘necklacing’ as a form of punishment, and on police violence in South Africa post-apartheid. The report engages with a series of questions about how popular forms of justice are imagined and enacted and about what the persistence of forms of violent punishment that originated during apartheid signifies in South Africa today… Read More Kylie ThomasApril 10, 2013
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionThe Persistence of Military Identities among Ex-Combatants in South AfricaThis report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants’ military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their families, communities and the state. For this reason, as long as DDRR programmes remain short-term processes aimed chiefly at disarming… Read More Maringira Godfrey and Jasmina BrankovicApril 10, 2013
PublicationsResearchViolence in TransitionOpportunities and Challenges of South-South Partnership: Reflections on a Collaborative Research Project on Violence and Transition in AfricaThis report reflects on the experience of four South-based organisations in conducting collaborative research on violence and transition in Africa. It explores some of the challenges and opportunities offered by working collaboratively on common themes across different contexts with research partners with diverse goals and institutional arrangements, and seeks to draw some lessons for how such partnerships can benefit individual… Read More CSVRApril 10, 2013
