This 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…
In 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…
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…
Over 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…
This 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…
This 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…