PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation"We Need to do it for Ourselves" An Evaluation of the CSVR Ex-Combatant Policy Dialogue ProjectThis paper reports on an evaluation that was conducted of the CSVR Ex-combatants/Military Veterans Policy Dialogue Project. The purpose of the evaluation was to ascertain the impact (if any) that the ex-combatant policy dialogue workshops had on stakeholders, particularly ex-combatants. This would give an indication whether policy dialogue workshops are a good way of advancing the development of ex-combatant reintegration… Read More Cyril AdonisNovember 24, 2008
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, Transitional JusticeThe Inter-relationship between Violence, Displacement and the Transition to Stability in the Great Lakes RegionThis paper explores the relationship between violence that engenders displacement and the forms of violence that result from displacement. Focusing specifically on Africa’s Great Lakes region, the analysis seeks to point to ways in which a transition to stability can break through the cycles of violence and displacement and, in turn, generate sustainable peace both in individual countries and throughout… Read More Lucy HovilNovember 11, 2008
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionThe Role of Ex-combatants and Veterans in Violence in Transitional SocietiesThis paper provides an overview of the issue of ex-combatants and violence as it exists in the southern African region. The paper shows the scale, incidence and consequences of the various roles of ex-combatants and veterans in violence in transitional societies. The paper aims to compare and explore: militarized masculinity and its impact on violence; the processes of demobilization, demilitarization,… Read More Gwinyayi DzinesaNovember 10, 2008
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban SafetyA State of Sexual Tyranny. The Prevalence, Nature and Causes of Sexual Violence in South AfricaIn 2006 the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cabinet committee decided to contract the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to carry out research aimed at enhancing understanding of the nature of violence in South Africa with a view to strengthening government's response to this problem. The following report is on the nature and causes of… Read More David Bruce, Romi Fuller, Collet Ngwane and Angelica PinoNovember 1, 2008
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban SafetyCase Studies of Perpetrators of Violent CrimeIn 2006 the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cabinet committee decided to contract the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to carry out research aimed at enhancing understanding of the nature of violence in South Africa with a view to strengthening government’s response to this problem. The overall project was largely underpinned by an interest in… Read More Venessa Barolsky, Suren Pillay, Nadia Sanger and Catherine L. WardNovember 1, 2008
PublicationsResearchStudy on the Violent Nature of Crime, Urban SafetyAdding Injury to Insult. How Exclusion and Inequality Drive South Africa's Problem of ViolenceIn 2006 the Justice, Crime Prevention and Security (JCPS) Cabinet committee decided to contract the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to carry out research aimed at enhancing understanding of the nature of violence in South Africa with a view to strengthening government's response to this problem. This document is the report on the fourth component of… Read More Anthony AltbekerOctober 31, 2008
