PublicationsResearchViolence in TransitionPolitical Violence: 1991The year 1991 witnessed the continuation of trends in political violence which had been set in motion in the wake of the State President's speech in February of that preceding year. This paper argues that this violence occurred in the context of the deregulation of repressive forms of social control at precisely the time at which the process of political transition heralded an intensified political contest. Read More Graeme Simpson and Janine RauchMarch 10, 1993
PublicationsResearchTrauma and Transition, Violence in Transition, Youth ViolencePsychological Effects of Criminal and Political Violence on ChildrenThis paper looks at the effects of political and criminal violence on township children. It focuses on children as victims rather than perpetrators of violence, although the latter can also be said to be victims of violence. Read More Vivi StavrouFebruary 3, 1993
PublicationsResearchPolicing, Violence in TransitionThe Police and the Violence in South AfricaThis paper seeks to capture the lack of effective police action to contain, prevent or investigate violence that has exacerbated the already dire state of police-community relations in the 1990s. Read More Janine RauchNovember 1, 1991
PublicationsResearchGender-based Violence, Violence in TransitionOvercoming Endemic Violence Against WomenThis article seeks to ensure that gender oppression, and in this case particularly the problem of violence against women in South Africa, is given the consideration it deserves in the construction of a new democratic society free of oppression. Read More Lloyd Vogelman and Gillian EagleJanuary 3, 1991
PublicationsResearchTrauma and Transition, Violence in TransitionExplaining Violence in South Africa: Some Psychoanalytic ConsiderationsThis paper provides psychological explanations to how the violence in South Africa is not the consequence of giving too much freedom to a population 'not ready' to make good use of it but a range of various preceding factors. Read More Sue van ZylOctober 31, 1990
PublicationsResearchViolence in TransitionThe Unofficial War in Natal: Pietermaritzburg Under the KnifeThis paper reflects on David Philips' book An Unofficial War,1990, which was written in an attempt to expose the extent and the impact of the war – to lift a corner of the carpet under which this unsightly violence has been swept. Read More Matthew KentridgeMarch 29, 1990
