PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Truth CommissionsSupporting Post-Conflict Reconciliation: An Assessment of International Assistance to South Africa's Truth CommissionThe basic purpose of this study is to provide a baseline understanding of the role of international assistance in the TRC process, upon which future policy can be built. Duncan McPherson looks first to analyse the instances of international assistance provided to the TRC to determine what aid worked well and why or why not. He then seeks to extract… Read More Duncan McPhersonApril 2, 2001
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Reparations and Victim Services, Transitional JusticeLesson Drawing: Northern Ireland and South AfricaThis paper provides a cursory assessment of lesson drawing during the negotiated transitions in Northern Ireland and South Africa. In Northern Ireland the focus is on the Independent Review of Policing and Victim Policy. In South Africa, the focus is on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Committee on Reparation and Rehabilitation of Victims, as well as the National Crime Prevention… Read More Helen Brocklehurst, Noel Stott, Brandon Hamber and Gillian RobinsonMarch 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Transitional Justice, Truth CommissionsWhat Do We Tell Our Children? The Work of the Centre for Ubuntu in Cape Town (Formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission)The research, on which this report is based, focused on the creation process, the intervention activities and subsequent changes that The Centre for Ubuntu (formerly the Religious Response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission) initiative has undergone since its formation in 1994. The report is meant to provide an insight into the history and operation of the initiative (the original… Read More Undine Whande KayserFebruary 1, 2001
PolicyPublicationsResearchPolicy-Making, Transitional JusticeFuture Challenges to Policy-Making in Countries in TransitionThe subsequent report is a documentation of the presentation to the Workshop Comparative Experiences of Policy Making and Implementation in Countries in Transition, 6th - 7th February 2001, Derry /Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The report reflects on discussions that predominantly revolve around the expected challenges in policy-making that countries in transition will face. Facets such as the patterns of need and… Read More Graeme Simpson, Brandon Hamber and Noel StottJanuary 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchTaxi Violence, Violence in TransitionFrom Low Intensity War to Mafia War: Taxi Violence in South Africa (1987 – 2000)This report presents the results of a case study of South Africa's 'taxi wars', a series of violent conflicts that have marked the largely black-owned and black-operated minibus taxi industry since its deregulation in 1987. Prior to 1994, these taxi wars were relatively few in number and were predominantly linked to state-orchestrated violence. This report sets out an historical overview… Read More Jackie DugardJanuary 1, 2001
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Ex-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationNegotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South AfricaThis case study will provide an overview as to the manner in which the release of political prisoners was linked to broader political concessions during the negotiation process in South Africa. It will also consider problems encountered in determining fixed cut-off dates for the granting of indemnity (and then amnesty) and the limited mechanisms put in place to deal with… Read More Kate SavageDecember 19, 2000
