PublicationsResearchPeacebuilding, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeAfrican Union Commission Consultation with African Union Member States on Transitional JusticeThis report is a reflection of a two-day expert consultation on Transitional Justice with African Union Member States organised by the Department of Political Affairs of the African Union Commission (AUC) in collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR), which took place from 12–13 September 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa. The aim of the… Read More CSVRJanuary 24, 2012
PublicationsResearchTorture and State Violence, Violence PreventionResponding to the Smoke That Calls: Principles of Community-level Interventions for the Prevention of Collective ViolenceThe Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and the Society, Work and Development Institute (of the University of the Witwatersrand), recently published a report exploring community protests and xenophobic violence in South Africa. The report “The smoke that calls: Insurgent citizenship, collective violence and the struggle for a place in the new South Africa”, provides an analysis… Read More Monica Bandeira and Craig Higson-SmithJanuary 24, 2012
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Reparations and Victim Services, Torture and State Violence, Trauma and Transition"Human Dignity Has No Nationality": A Situational Analysis of the Health Needs of Exiled Torture Survivors Living in Johannesburg, South AfricaThis study explores the health needs and health seeking behaviours of tortured exiles (both asylum seekers and refugees) in South Africa in order to assist planners and service providers to offer accessible, high quality, specialist services to this group. This study provides a qualitative overview of the histories, current lives, current health status and experience of health services in South… Read More Craig Higson-Smith, Beverly Mulder and Serame MasithaJanuary 24, 2012
PublicationsResearchMental Health, Migrants and XenophobiaTowards Improving Forced Migrants' Access to Health and Psychosocial Rights in Urban South AfricaThe policy dialogue “Towards improving forced migrants' access to health and psychosocial rights in urban South Africa” took place on the 30th of November 2011. The dialogue focused on a range of obstacles that migrants face in South Africa as well as various recommendations that might ameliorate these difficulties. The dialogue was attended by 47 members of migrant communities, government,… Read More Iriann FreemantleDecember 13, 2011
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Reparations and Victim Services, Urban SafetyTowards Improving Forced Migrant Access to Health and Psychosocial Rights in Urban South Africa: A Focus on JohannesburgThis issue brief is a quick reference guide regarding urban forced migrant access to their legally guaranteed health and psychosocial rights in Johannesburg. This issue brief highlights that policies designed to protect the health and psychosocial rights of urban forced migrants are not being effectively implemented in Johannesburg. This results in urban forced migrants experiencing multiple “daily stressors” that negatively… Read More Jo Vearey and Lorena NunezNovember 13, 2011
PublicationsResearchPolicingPromotion of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) HIV/Aids Workplace PolicyA project funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund has enabled the Centre for the Study of Violence (CSVR) and the Lesotho Mounted Police Services (LMPS) to work together since 2008 to address the problem of HIV/AIDS in the LMPS. In 2010 this project led to the development of a workplace HIV-AIDS policy by the LMPS. In 2011 a series of… Read More Themba MasukuSeptember 28, 2011
