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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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    South Sudan within a new Sudan

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, hosted a two-day policy advisory group seminar on 20 and 21 April 2006 in Franschhoek, South Africa, on the theme, South Sudan Within a New Sudan.
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    African perspectives on the UN Peacebuilding Commission

    2006
    A meeting, in Maputo, Mozambique, on 3 and 4 August 2006, analysed the relevance for Africa of the creation, in December 2005, of the UN Peacebuilding Commission, and examined how countries emerging from conflict could benefit from its establishment.
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    The peacebuilding role of civil society in Central Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    Central Africa has been one of the most volatile sub-regions on the continent, experiencing four of the most violent conflicts in Africa in the last decade: in Rwanda, Burundi, Angola and the DRC. Other countries such as Chad and CAR have also experienced chronic instability since the end of colonial rule in the 1960s.
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    United Nations mediation experience in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    The Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town, South Africa, on behalf of the United Nations (UN) Department of Political Affairs (DPA), hosted a two-day meeting on the theme: “Operationalising Mediation Support: Lessons from Mediation Experience in Africa.” The meeting was held in Cape Town, South Africa,  October 2006.
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    West Africa's evolving security architecture: looking back to the future

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2006
    Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, West Africa has been among the most volatile regions in the world. Local brushfires  raged from Liberia to Sierra Leone, from Guinea to Guinea-Bissau, and from Senegal to Côte d’Ivoire in an inter-connected web of instability.
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    The United Nations and Africa: peace, development and human security

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    The UN Security Council adopted 195 resolutions on African conflicts between 2000 and 2006. Since more than two-thirds of the Security Council’s agenda focuses on African issues in any given month, some on the continent feel that Africa has effectively become an experimental and legitimising field for new UN initiatives, institutions, norms and doctrines.
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    Africa's responsibility to protect: seminar report

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    A perennial issue confronting the international community is the degree to which international society is responsible for the protection of civilians during humanitarian crises. The “responsibility to protect” principle imparts the international community with three commitments: the responsibility to prevent; the responsibility to react; and the responsibility to rebuild.
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    Africa's evolving human rights architecture

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2008
    Since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 in which about 800,000 people were killed, human rights protection has been placed on the continental agenda by the African Union (AU) and Africa’s regional economic communities (RECs) such as the Southern African Development Community (SADC); the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS); the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD); a
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    Peace versus justice? Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and War Crimes Tribunals in Africa

    Centre for Conflict Resolution, University of Cape Town (UCT), 2007
    The development of peacebuilding initiatives in Africa in the last decade is reflected in the proliferation of numerous models of transitional justice. Recent experiments on the continent range from judicial to non-judicial approaches, including United Nations (UN) tribunals, “hybrid” criminal courts, domestic trials, and truthand reconciliation commissions (TRCs).

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