The Responsibility Of Civil Society: Priorities, Strategies And Concerns For Reconciliation In South Africa
This paper examines the role that civil society plays in South Africa's reconciliation processes.
18 Feb 1994
Transitional Justice Tag
Publications, Research, Ex-combatant Reintegration and Demilitarisation, Transitional Justice, Truth Commissions, Violence in Transition
Truth Recovery Or Mccarthyism Revisited: An Evaluation Of The Stasi Records Act Of 1991 With Reference To The South African Experience
This 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.
04 Feb 1994
Monitoring The Elections In South Africa
King, 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.
03 Feb 1994
The Role Of The South African Police In The Elections
This 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.
03 Feb 1994
Explaining Endemic Violence In South Africa
This 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.
01 Oct 1993
Mental Health And Human Rights: In Search Of Context, Consequence And Effective Care
This 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.
01 Jun 1993