PublicationsResearchCivil Society, Reconciliation, Transitional JusticeThe Responsibility of Civil Society: Priorities, Strategies and Concerns for Reconciliation in South AfricaThis paper examines the role that civil society plays in South Africa's reconciliation processes. Read More Meverett KoetzFebruary 18, 1994
PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, Violence in TransitionTruth Recovery or McCarthyism Revisited: An Evaluation of the Stasi Records Act of 1991 with Reference to the South African ExperienceThis paper examines the fraught issue of access to the records of intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies. The dilemmas which this topic poses are at the cutting edge of the tensions between the rights of access to information and those of privacy. Read More Graeme SimpsonFebruary 4, 1994
PublicationsResearchPolicing, Transitional JusticeThe Role of the South African Police in the ElectionsThis is a transcript of a presentation by Frans Cronje, second in charge of Physical Rendering of Services in the South African Police Service during the run up to the 1994 general election. In his speech at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, he addresses challenges associated with policing the first democratic election in South Africa. Read More Frans CronjeFebruary 3, 1994
PublicationsResearchElections, Transitional JusticeMonitoring the Elections in South AfricaKing, A. (1994). Monitoring the Elections in South Africa. Paper presented at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Seminar No. 1, 26 January. Read More Angela KingFebruary 3, 1994
PublicationsResearchTransitional Justice, Violence in Transition, Violent TrendsExplaining Endemic Violence in South AfricaThis paper demonstrates that the search for mono-causal explanations of violence in South Africa is fruitless. The convenient terms in which the violence has been labelled, by politicians and the commercial media, often does more to disguise complex causation than it does to explain it. Read More Graeme SimpsonOctober 1, 1993
PublicationsResearchMental Health, Transitional JusticeMental Health and Human Rights: In Search of Context, Consequence and Effective CareThis paper examines the concept of human rights in the area of mental health. It does this in four steps. Firstly, it provides a brief examination of the shift from institutionalisation to community care and the violation of human rights that occurred in the process. Secondly, it defines the concept of human rights in the field of mental health. Thirdly, it provides a discussion of the hegemonic medical approach to mental health and the undermining of human rights that followed. Finally, the paper offers a brief focus on the role of the socio-political context in the understanding and distribution of human rights. Read More Brandon Hamber and Brian RockJune 1, 1993
