The 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…
The 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…
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…
The 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…
This 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…
Ex-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…