PublicationsResearchEx-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in TransitionThe Role of Ex-combatants and Veterans in Violence in Transitional SocietiesThis paper provides an overview of the issue of ex-combatants and violence as it exists in the southern African region. The paper shows the scale, incidence and consequences of the various roles of ex-combatants and veterans in violence in transitional societies. The paper aims to compare and explore: militarized masculinity and its impact on violence; the processes of demobilization, demilitarization,… Read More Gwinyayi DzinesaNovember 10, 2008
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence in TransitionGender-Based Violence in TransitionIn this concept paper Romi Sigsworth probes and highlights the existence of Gender-Based violence (GBV) during periods of conflict. She looks to describe Gender-Based violence and the different forms it can take, underlines the afflictions that women suffer in times of conflict while illuminating on how GBV during conflict is a continuum of GBV through pre-conflict and post-conflict. The paper… Read More Romi SigsworthMay 1, 2008
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
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
PublicationsResearchDemilitarisation, Violence in TransitionConfronting the Legacy of Weapons in Richmond, KwaZulu-NatalThis investigation into the weapons recovery process in Richmond finds the tensions that fueled the conflict between the ANC and IFP in the area during the 1990s still hold peacebuilding in the balance. Contemporary violence has to be understood within the area's history of armed conflict. A key aspect of the research has entailed understanding the extent to which weapons… Read More Injobo NebandlaDecember 1, 2005
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence in TransitionEngendering Wartime Conflict: Women and War TraumaThis report is a part of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR's) Violence in Transition Project (VTP). Past VTP research has focused on a number of fault lines for violence in the South African transition to democracy. The overall focus of the report is to investigate how war shapes gender relationships and gender-based violence in ways… Read More Ingrid PalmaryDecember 1, 2005
