PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, ReconciliationEvaluation of the 2005 Ex-Combatants' DialoguesThis report assesses whether the dialogues undertaken in the second year of the CSVR's Ex-Combatants Reintegration and Restorative Justice Project pilot ultimately assisted with the Project's key goals of community reconciliation and ex-combatant reintegration. It concludes that the dialogues were indeed beneficial as they taught individuals and communities new mediation and negotiation skills. In addition, with regard to promoting ex-combatant… Read More Bryant GreenbaumDecember 4, 2004
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Truth and Reconciliation CommissionA Snake Gives Birth to a Snake: Politics and Crime in the Transition to Democracy in South AfricaIn and of itself, the brief account of the murder of an eight month-old baby along with the baby’s mother in the course of a massacre partially explained as political motivation during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, with 17 co-conspirators granted amnesty for their actions, gives ample substance to the moral and legal controversy that surrounded the TRC’s amnesty… Read More Graeme SimpsonDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Urban Safety"That Place is KwaMnyamandawo" : Fear and Survival Strategies Among Homeless Women Living in Inner-City JohannesburgThis study explores the fears and experiences of violence among homeless women living in inner city Johannesburg (2004). It forms part of a larger investigation initiated by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) which explored the relationship between space, time and sexual violence, with a view to identifying ways to reduce the rate of sexual violence,… Read More Joy Dladla, Samantha Hargreaves, Stephen Greenberg and Lisa VettenDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, HIV and AIDSHealth and Hope in Our HandsHealth and Hope in our hands is an extremely valuable tool, providing very practical and valuable advice on how to address HIV and AIDS treatment, care and support in the aftermath of rape and in the context of abusive partner relationships. It is aimed at health providers, but will no doubt be useful to women themselves and others involved in… Read More Kailash Bhana, Liesl Gerntholtz, Karen Hunt, Andrea Meeson and Lisa VettenDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismArranging Prejudice: Exploring Hate Crime in Post-Apartheid South AfricaThe following report is part of a CSVR series on Race and Citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa. It grapples with the violent expression of prejudice and draws on international experiences of hate crime to investigate commonalities and differences with the South African context. It touches on social representations and public perceptions of hate crime and considers media reporting on incidents… Read More Bronwyn HarrisDecember 1, 2004
PublicationsResearchMigrants and Xenophobia, RacismEmpowerment Through Living Memory: A Community-Centred Model for MemorializationThe subsequent report outlines the five phases of the process that focused on a community centred approach to memorialization. This report aims to give practitioners working within the field of memorialization a detailed understanding of the process that was undertaken in the different phases of the project so as to enable practitioners and communities themselves to initiate their own memory… Read More Ereshnee NaiduDecember 1, 2004
