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Publications, Research, Correctional Services, Criminal Justice, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in Transition

Is 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…

EZZAT A. FATTAH

01 Sep 2006

Publications, Research, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Ex-combatant Reintegration In South Africa – Key Resources

The 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…

Richard Records

05 Dec 2005

Publications, Research, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Reconciliation

Evaluation Of The 2005 Ex-combatants' Dialogues

This report assesses whether the dialogues undertaken in the second year of the CSVR's Ex-Combatants Reintegration and Restorative Justice Project pilot ultimately assisted with the Project's key goals of community reconciliation and ex-combatant reintegration. It concludes that the dialogues were…

Bryant Greenbaum

04 Dec 2004

Publications, Research, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in Transition

Now That The War Is Over – Ex-combatants Transition And The Question Of Violence: A Literature Review

Ex-combatants are often considered to pose a threat to peace and security in countries emerging from extensive violent conflict. Despite the haste with which 'ex-combatants' tend to be linked with violence, there is little research in South Africa that sets…

Sasha Gear

20 Dec 2002

Publications, Research, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Violence in Transition

Wishing Us Away: Challenges Facing Ex-combatants In The 'new' South Africa

This report provides an exploration of some key issues affecting ex-combatants in South Africa. It is based on a former series of in-depth interviews and focus groups with former members of various armed groupings that participated in South Africa's previous…

Sasha Gear

02 Dec 2002

Publications, Research, Children and Youth, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation

Journey Into The Inner Self And Encounter With The Other: Transformation Trails With Militarised Youth Of Katorus

Various NGO-driven interventions at the grassroots level try to take into account the particular needs of militarized and criminalized youth. This study examines one of those initiatives: the Wilderness Trail and Therapy Project of the National Peace Accord Trust (NPAT)….

Stephanie Schell-Faucon

03 Dec 2001

Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation Tag

Is Punishment The Appropriate Response To Gross Human Rights Violations? Is A Non-punitive Justice System Feasible?

Ex-combatant Reintegration In South Africa – Key Resources

Evaluation Of The 2005 Ex-combatants' Dialogues

Now That The War Is Over – Ex-combatants Transition And The Question Of Violence: A Literature Review

Wishing Us Away: Challenges Facing Ex-combatants In The 'new' South Africa

Journey Into The Inner Self And Encounter With The Other: Transformation Trails With Militarised Youth Of Katorus

PRESS STATEMENT: World Refugee Day – 20 June 2025

War is good for business: The nexus between organised crime and sexual violence in conflict.

COMMEMORATION OF THE 49TH ANNIVERSARY OF YOUTH DAY IN SOUTH AFRICA

STATEMENT: COMMEMORATION OF THE 31ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE 1994 GENOCIDE AGAINST THE TUTSI IN RWANDA

BREAKING THE SILENCE: THE FIGHT AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN TANZANIA

Towards Advancing Psychosocial Justice – Strengthening Mental Health Support through the Psychosocial Wellness Programme

TRAINING MANUAL FOR SAPS ON GBV RESPONSE

AUTJP Factsheets for communities

Justice Denied: Gender-Based Violence Crimes remain unpunishable in South Africa.

AFRICAN UNION TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE: THE GAMBIA

AFRICAN UNION TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY IMPLEMENTATION GUIDANCE: SOUTH SUDAN

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