PolicyPublicationsEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Skills developmentPolicy Dialogue: Skills Development and Job CreationThe following document is a workshop summary of a Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) two-day workshop – Policy Dialogue: Skills Development and Job Creation. The first of a series of workshops focusing on ex-combatant and military veteran reintegration and demobilization. The goal of the project is to engage a variety of stakeholders and provide opportunities for… Read More CSVRSeptember 6, 2007
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and DemilitarisationStruggles in Peacetime: Working With Ex-combatants in Mozambique – Their Work, Their Frustrations and SuccessesThe subsequent piece is based on interviews with more than 40 former combatants in Mozambique and a number of other relevant actors, it seeks to begin answering some of the questions that hardly ever get asked: what do the lives of ex-combatants really look like? How are they coping in post-war society? What roles do they envisage for themselves in… Read More Bram Posthumus, Salomao Mungoi, Hugo van der Merwe and Richard SmithDecember 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchCorrectional Services, Criminal Justice, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionIs Punishment the Appropriate Response to Gross Human Rights Violations? Is a Non-punitive Justice System Feasible?This conference paper discusses the faulty premises underlying theories of punitive justice, and highlights the problems caused by the use of punitive justice as a means of dealing with various kinds of human rights violations. The paper puts forward a series of arguments in favour of using restorative justice to manage human rights abuses. Read More EZZAT A. FATTAHSeptember 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeEx-Combatant Reintegration in South Africa – Key ResourcesThe following document is a list of key resources in the collaborative 'Ex-Combatant Reintegration in South Africa' research project. The project organizations include CSVR (South Africa), the Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (Malawi), the National Society for Human Rights (Namibia), Amani Trust (Zimbabwe) and Justa Paz (Mozambique). Read More Richard RecordsDecember 5, 2005
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
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionNow That the War is Over – Ex-combatants Transition and the Question of Violence: A Literature ReviewEx-combatants are often considered to pose a threat to peace and security in countries emerging from extensive violent conflict. Despite the haste with which 'ex-combatants' tend to be linked with violence, there is little research in South Africa that sets out to specifically explore either the current situations of the armed actors of our recent history, or their relation to… Read More Sasha GearDecember 20, 2002
