PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Psychosocial Support, Torture and State ViolenceGuidelines For Home Visits (Appendix F)Home visits were undertaken as a stand-alone intervention as part of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation's (CSVR's) community project to address the psychosocial effects of torture among ex-combatants on the West Rand of Johannesburg. This report discusses the lessons, challenges and ethical dilemmas encountered in conducting home visits in 2008 and 2009. This evaluation process aimed… Read More Malose LangaDecember 16, 2013
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionThe Persistence of Military Identities among Ex-Combatants in South AfricaThis report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants’ military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their families, communities and the state. For this reason, as long as DDRR programmes remain short-term processes aimed chiefly at disarming… Read More Maringira Godfrey and Jasmina BrankovicApril 10, 2013
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
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
PublicationsResearchCrime Prevention, Ex-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationFormer Combatants' Involvement in Crime and Crime PreventionThis paper is based on nine interviews with people who work or have worked with former combatants or are involved in crime prevention. Participants were selected using a purposive sampling technique. The paper further reflects upon involvement of former combatants in crime, analyzing the context of South Africa’s failure to successfully reintegrate former combatants into civilian society. Read More Lephophotho MashikeNovember 26, 2007
PolicyPublicationsEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Memory and MemorialisationPolicy Dialogue: The Role of Ex-Combatants in Memorialization Processes in South AfricaThe following workshop report is based on a 15 November 2007 CSVR workshop that looked to examine the role ex-combatants play in memorialization processes in post-TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) South Africa. Several key stake-holders were invited from government departments, Non-governmental organizations and Military Veterans Associations. Read More CSVRNovember 15, 2007
