ArticlesMediaInequalities, Transitional JusticeValues in South Africa: In Search of Self-RespectIn his Nelson Mandela memorial lecture in late July, President Thabo Mbeki expressed concern about the dominance of acquisitive values amongst South Africans. Mbeki stated that the new political order had inherited from the apartheid years 'a well-entrenched value system that placed individual acquisition of wealth at the very centre of the value system of our society'. Similar concerns were… Read More CSVRSeptember 1, 2006
PublicationsResearchMemory and Memorialisation, Transitional JusticeThe Ties That Bind: Strengthening the Links Between Memorialisation and Transitional JusticeThe study is based on documentary and field research and discussions held at a working group hosted by CSVR. The research focused on the role of memorialisation in transitional justice, focusing on the case studies of Argentina, Chile and South Africa. Read More Ereshnee NaiduAugust 1, 2006
MediaOur News and EventsTransitional JusticeTruth and Reconciliation: Lessons from the South African contextI have been asked to address you today on South Africa's experiences with its Truth and Reconciliation Commission and to share, from the perspective of South African civil society, some of the lessons learned which may be of relevance as Liberia embarks on its own TRC process. The South African TRC was launched well over a decade ago, and since… Read More CSVRJune 23, 2006
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Violence in Transition, Violence PreventionBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Violence, Transition and Democratisation. A Consolidated Review of the Violence and Transition ProjectOver the last seven years, the Violence and Transition Project (VTP) at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) has examined violence in relation to the fields of transitional justice, criminal justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. This paper serves as a review of the VTP. Read More Bronwyn HarrisApril 10, 2006
PublicationsResearchReconciliation, Restorative Justice, Transitional JusticeGhana's National Reconciliation Commission: A Comparative AssessmentThis report aims to evaluate Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission against its own objectives and in the context of the comparative experiences of truth commissions in other countries. The research is based on primary and secondary source material on the Ghanaian process as well as 14 interviews conducted with local civil society representatives in Ghana in September 2005. This was supplemented with… Read More Nahla ValjiJanuary 2, 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
