PolicyPublicationsGender-based Violence, Transitional JusticeTransitioning Toward Gender Justice: A Trend Analysis of 13 African CasesTo demonstrate the need for a broader understanding of gender justice within transitional justice processes, this policy brief draws upon a study conducted by CSVR on the drivers and impacts of TJ in Africa. The study examined gender trends emerging from 13 African countries that had state-led TJ processes between 1990 and 2011, and their impacts up until 2016. The… Read More Maxine RubinOctober 19, 2018
ArticlesMediaGender-based Violence, Transitional JusticeInclusive Gender in Transitional JusticeMen instigate war, women bear the brunt of it… During armed conflict, men are perpetrators of sexual violence and women are the victims… Men cannot be raped; women are the only ‘legitimate’ victims of rape and other forms of sexual violence… Whether implicitly or explicitly, these are some of the stereotypes and misnomers that seem to animate public opinion about… Read More Noma MasikoOctober 4, 2018
PublicationsResearchChildren and Youth, Transitional Justice"People's Power" in the Age of Human Rights: Victims' Contributions to Education in Post-Apartheid South AfricaConcentrating on the transitional preoccupation with mainstreaming human rights culture, the chapter contrasts human rights education as expressed in South Africa’s post-1994 formal curriculum and as reflected in the informal educational activities of the national apartheid victims’ organization, Khulumani Support Group. It suggests that Khulumani’s educational activities draw on the example of apartheid-era struggles for alternative and inclusive education as… Read More Jasmina BrankovicOctober 2, 2018
Climate JusticePublicationsResearchClimate Change, Transitional JusticeThe Global Climate Regime and Transitional JusticeGeopolitical changes combined with the increasing urgency of ambitious climate action have re-opened debates about justice and international climate policy. Mechanisms and insights from transitional justice have been used in over thirty countries across a range of conflicts at the interface of historical responsibility and imperatives for collective futures. However, lessons from transitional justice theory and practice have not been… Read More Jasmina BrankovicOctober 2, 2018
PolicyPublicationsResearchAfrican Union, Transitional JusticeFirst Continental Transitional Justice Forum: The State of Transitional Justice in AfricaThis report is a reflection of the inaugural three-day Continental Forum on Transitional Justice that was organized by the Department of Political Affairs of the African Union Commission and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 19–21 October 2017. The objective of the Forum was to create a platform to discuss transitional justice… Read More CSVROctober 1, 2018
ArticlesMediaTransitional JusticePress Release: South Africa Should Address the Current Threats to Democracyhe continued eruption of violent protests in various provinces in South Africa could be a sign of increased desperation amongst citizens who feel their grievances continue to fall on deaf ears, despite the hard-earned freedom expressed though the vote for all in 1994. The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) calls on government to act with a… Read More CSVRSeptember 20, 2018
