PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceBuilding Safety. Facilitators Guide for Educators to Stimulate an Understanding of ViolenceThe following course has been designed to help young people to deal with conflict and violence in their relationships, homes, schools and communities The course will emphasise good communication skills as key to dealing with violence. The ability to hear what people are trying to say when they use force instead of language, and the confidence to speak openly without… Read More Yvette Geyer and Bea RobertsDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceSafety Now. Step by Step Guide on How to Develop a Safe Schools PolicyThis subsequent document is a step by step guide on how to develop a Safe School Policy ( A Safe School Policy is a plan on how to deal with crime and violence at school ). Read More Tracy Vienings, Carla Commys and Yvette GeyerDecember 19, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Ex-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationJourney into the Inner Self and Encounter with the Other: Transformation Trails with Militarised Youth of KatorusVarious NGO-driven interventions at the grassroots level try to take into account the particular needs of militarized and criminalized youth. This study examines one of those initiatives: the Wilderness Trail and Therapy Project of the National Peace Accord Trust (NPAT). This project begins from the premise that the transformation of trauma is the first step to a peaceful society. It… Read More Stephanie Schell-FauconDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Gender-based ViolenceNow We Have Nothing: Exploring the Impact of Maternal Imprisonment on Children Whose Mothers Killed an Abusive PartnerThis study looks to reveal that long-term imprisonment for a mother who has killed her abusive partner is not in her children's best interests. To substantiate this the report explains and demonstrates the complex and serious consequences for children who live in the context of domestic violence, whose fathers are killed by their mothers, and who subsequently lose their mothers… Read More Kailash Bhana and Tessa HochfeldDecember 3, 2001
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Youth ViolenceInto the Heart of Darkness: Journeys of the Amagents in Crime, Violence and DeathThis paper is a journey into their criminal underworld – South Africa's heart of darkness. It is a unsettling journey but one that is vital if we are to reach beyond the public disquietude surrounding these cold-blooded youngsters and begin to understand the human contours of their moral exile and pariah status. The journey starts with their own, autobiographical accounts of how they were drawn into this world of deviance; the different paths they have traversed; the events that have taken place along the way and the dialogue that they have about their goals and dreams in the future. Read More CSVRFebruary 3, 1998
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Youth ViolenceRestoring the Social FabricThis is a shortened version of a paper given by Wandile Zwane at a workshop held in Washington, DC, on CSVR's work in schools. The CSVR's Children and Violence Intervention Programme (CVIP) began in 1994 as a pilot project in four schools in Soweto. In addition, a teacher training programme called the "40 Schools Project," which services both primary and high schools, was initiated in 1996. The primary aim of the project was to reach children and to provide a service that would help to decrease the negative impact of violence. Since its inception, it has grown to include caregivers such as teachers, parents and extended family members. Read More Wandile ZwaneDecember 1, 1997
