Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation Tag

The policy brief outlines Ethiopia's complex history of conflict and human rights abuses, emphasizing the need for a comprehensive transitional justice (TJ) policy, which was initiated in 2022 under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's administration. Despite the signing of the Cessation…

Markos Debebe Belay
25 Apr 2025

This article deals with the perceived impact of the Community Work Programme (CWP) (a state-sponsored job creation project) in preventing crime and violence in the townships of Ivory Park and Orange Farm, South Africa. The focus of this article is…

Malose Langa and Themba Masuku
06 May 2016

This paper contains a selection of the important substantive concepts and theoretical underpinnings of the Learning Series. The series was conceived out of the collaboration between the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) and Zimbabwe Lawyers for…

CSVR and ZLHR
04 Apr 2014

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) developed two research projects to identify and profile survivors of current torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment in the new South Africa. Two research methods were used to investigate…

Malose Langa
16 Dec 2013

This report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants' military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their…

Maringira Godfrey and Jasmina Brankovic
10 Apr 2013
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