This article explores the social representation of black masculinities as violent in the globally publicized case of the murder by Oscar Pistorius of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. This murder and the subsequent media interest it generated highlighted the manner in…
This lecture, delivered by Commissioner Solomon Dersso of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, at the 2017 African Transitional Justice Forum, provides an appraisal of the state of transitional justice in Africa and a critical reflection on the…
This report provides a concise overview of best practice guidelines for community-based violence prevention initiatives. It then presents an integrated model for working with communities, based on a review of CSVR's psychosocial and violence prevention interventions aimed at addressing underlying…
The African Union Commission Department of Political Affairs (AUC-DPA) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) jointly hosted the first Continental Forum on Transitional Justice (TJ) in Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa under the theme The…
Following the 2011 Revolution ending over five decades of dictatorship, Tunisia embarked on a comprehensive transitional justice process to investigate a broad range of state violations against its citizens, including false imprisonment, torture, assassination as well as social marginalisation and…
The increasing role of African youth in political transformations and conflicts in the African continent is inevitably linked to the demographic reality that Africa is a continent of the Youth. This increasing role is also attributable to the capacity of…