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  Dis-placing race: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and interpretations of violence

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2004

  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of South Africa was one of the first initiatives developed to begin the process of cultural and societal healing following the end of the Apartheid era. Yet apartheid, and specifically questions of race and racism, are strikingly absent from the interrogational framework of the TRC, in both its processes and products.
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  From low intensity war to mafia war: taxi violence in South Africa (1987 - 2000)

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2001

  This report presents the results of a case study of South Africa's "taxi wars", a series of violent conflicts that have marked the largely black-owned and black-operated minibus taxi industry since its deregulation in 1987. Prior to 1994, these taxi wars were relatively few in number and were predominantly linked to state-orchestrated violence.
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  Land, violent conflict and development

  OECD Development Centre, 2004

  This paper looks at the dynamics of land and violent conflict. It states that conflict situations in rural societies deeply affect the politics of land, and that land requires a careful approach by policy makers because it is a central element in the evolution of societies.
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  Resisting repression: legislative and political obstacles to civic space in southern and eastern Africa

  CIVICUS - World Alliance for Citizen Participation, 2004

  This study focuses on the legislative frameworks and country practices relating to freedom of association, expression and assembly in Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, and South Africa. The study focuses on the grave and worsening situation in Zimbabwe, as part of an advocacy intervention under the Civil Society Watch Programme.
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  Blood and soil: land, politics and conflict prevention in Zimbabwe and South Africa

  International Crisis Group, 2004

  This report offers a detailed analysis of the different challenges of land reform in both Zimbabwe and South Africa. The report looks at the history of land ownership and policy in both countries.For Zimbabwe, it offers practical policy suggestions for ways forward by identifying the contours of a post-Mugabe land approach.
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  Socio-economic dominance of ethnic and racial groups: the African experience

  Human Development Report Office, UNDP, 2004

  This paper argues that socio-economic dominance based on ethnic and race factors is a long standing phenomena in Africa, which was instigated by colonial rule and perpetuated by elite interests in capital accumulation and political power during the post-colonial era.
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  Understanding the legacies of political violence: an examination of political conflict in Mpumalanga Township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

  Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2004

  This working paper argues that the political and social violence of KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) can trace its roots back to the region's violent political conflicts between the United Democratic Front and Inkatha during the 1980s and early 1990s.
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  Norway and security sector reform in developing countries

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2003

  This report looks at the role of security sector reform in Norwegian assistance to peace building in developing countries.
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  Report of the South-South dialogue on defence transformation

  SSRonline, 2003

  This report summarises the findings and experiences of a conference that took place in Accra, Ghana, between the 27th and the 30th of May 2003. The objective of the conference was to promote the debate about defense transformation in the context of Ghana, inject local content and transparency, and enhance Ghana’s ability to gain ownership of the process.
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  Whose right it is anyway?: equality, culture and conflicts of rights in South Africa

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2003

  South Africa today provides a fertile environment for reflection on questions about rights and multiculturalism, because claims grounded in both are frequent, loud and often quite intractable. Those charged with the responsibility of policy formulation and legislation are thus faced with the difficulty of striking a balance between: liberalism: the rights of individuals.

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