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  South Africa Crime Quarterly: 20 years of criminal justice in South Africa

  Institute for Security Studies, 2014

  This special edition reviews 20 years of criminal justice in South Africa, and questions common assumptions about violence, corruption and policing.  Articles include:
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  Will the BRICS provide the global public goods the world needs?

  Overseas Development Institute, 2014

  The demand for global economic governance is increasing in a globalising and increasingly interlinked economy. Yet global governance, a global public good, is currently undersupplied – and this (e.g. lack of global rules on trade, finance and emissions) is harming development.
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  Anticipating 2011

  Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, 2009

  This book chapter reviews the costs and potential benefits of the hosting of the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Incorporating interviews with the respective host city managers of the event, the author seeks to assess what the impacts of previous hosting of mega events might mean for South Africa. He offers a number of conclusions, including:
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  Analysing South Africa's 2014 election results

  Institute for Security Studies, 2014

  This policy brief interrogates the South African 2014 national and provincial elections results, focusing on the implications of the results for the three largest political parties: the African National Congress (ANC), the Democratic Alliance (DA) and the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF).
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  Implementing the responsibility to protect: new directions for international peace and security?

  Igarape Institute, 2013

  The international peace and security architecture is undergoing a profound renovation in the twenty first century. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is being re-evaluated from political and operational perspectives, while the Responsibility while Protecting (RwP), a Brazilian initiative, can be a new direction for international peace and security.
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  South Africa’s economic statecraft in Southern Africa: non-existent or nascent? An examination of relations with Zimbabwe and Swaziland

  South African Institute of International Affairs, 2014

  South Africa's reaction to crises in Zimbabwe and Swaziland over the past 20 years is a strong indicator of how it tries to marry the competing values inherent in its policy statements. This paper considers the extent to which South Africa utilises its economic statecraft to further a progressive regional agenda.
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  Innovation, solidarity and South-South learning: the role of civil society from middle-income countries in effective development cooperation

  2014

  Civil society organisations (CSOs) from middle-income countries can play multiple strategically important roles in effective development cooperation. Beyond demanding transparency and accountability around the aid that their own countries still receive, they can add signifi cant value to development cooperation provided to other countries.  
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  South-South knowledge sharing for the inclusion of the urban Poor- India-South Africa Praxis

  Civil Society & South-South Co-operation, 2014

  Shack/Slum Dwellers International (SDI) is a social movement of the urban poor which began in India, networked initially in Asia and then moved to South Africa, and to the other parts of Africa.
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  Corruption in the South African Police Service: civilian perceptions and experiences

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  Ever since it was founded in 1995, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has struggled to foster an image as a professional police agency. However, there is major reason for the SAPS’s poor public image: the perception that many SAPS officials are corrupt.
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  Balancing competing obligations: the Rome Statute and AU decisions

  Institute for Security Studies, 2011

  This paper underlines the claimed conflict between African states’ binding obligations imposed by the Rome Statute and their binding obligations imposed by the decisions of the African Union (AU).

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