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    The Zimbabwe torture docket decision and proactive complementarity

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    The decision of a landmark case heard in the South African Constitutional Court means there is an obligation for states to complement the work of the International Criminal Court – extending the court’s influence in prosecuting serious crimes of international concern in states where it does not have jurisdiction under the Rome Statute.
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    To protect or to intervene?: contesting R2P as a norm in South Africa’s foreign policy

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    The “responsibility to protect” (R2P) allows international community to intervene when states are unable or unwilling to protect their citizens from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity.
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    The chimera of global convergence

    Transnational Institute, 2014
    It has become a staple of conventional wisdom that global economic power is shifting inexorably towards the East and the South. Many insist that we are on the brink of a world-­historic rebalancing that will result in the end of Western domination and the rise of a new hegemony.
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    African emerging powers

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2014
    Once considered almost solely a site of poverty and conflict, sub-Saharan Africa and perceptions of it have gradually been changing. Today, African states have become important actors in international affairs, with a number considered as emerging powers.
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    Emerging powers in a changing world

    Institute of International Relations, Greece, 2014
    The scope of this paper goes beyond Greece’s neighbourhood and examine different countries that are collectively called as ‘Rising Powers’. Selectively, the authors pick and examine the topics considered as the most important  from each of the following six countries: China, Russia, India, Brazil, South Africa and Mexico.
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    A ‘Third Umpire’ for policing in South Africa: applying body cameras in the Western Cape

    Igarape Institute, 2015
    Technological innovations are having a profound effect on the form and content of policing. But what are the possibilities for the use of these new technologies for improving law enforcement in the global South? A new initiative led by the Brazil-based Igarapé Institute is testing this question.
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    South and Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean-South Atlantic nexus: strategic and blue economy dimensions

    Institute for Global Dialogue, South Africa, 2015
    This policy brief summarises and updates the outcome of the very first symposium devoted to exploring Indian Ocean-South Atlantic sea lanes of convergence around South Africa’s Cape of Good Hope.
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    Power and influence in Africa: Algeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Africa

    Institute for Security Studies, 2015
    Africa has been peripheral in approaches to international relations that have tended to focus on so-called ‘great powers’ or the ‘states that make the most difference.
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    AIDS and society in South Africa: building a community of practice

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The first 25 years of the HIV/AIDS pandemic have been largely focused on bio-medical research. Gradually, social science researchers, donors, policymakers and activists have recognised that HIV/AIDS is more than simply a health issue and that the pandemic has developmental, governance and security implications.
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    HIV/AIDS and human security in South Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), based at the University of Cape Town, held a two-day policy seminar on  June 2006. The seminar, on the theme, “HIV/AIDS and Human Security in South Africa” , drew on knowledge and expertise on the scope and response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa and southern Africa.

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