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Searching with a thematic focus on Conflict and security, Governance in South Africa

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  The contemporary right to property restitution in the context of transitional justice

  The International Center for Transitional Justice, 2007

  This study summarises the parallel development of restitution and reparations in international law and practice over the last century in order to provide context for recommendations on how restitution can best serve the needs of contemporary transitional justice settings.
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  Organised crime: a study from the Cape Flats

  Institute for Security Studies, 2006

  This book analyses and attempts to conceptualise organised crime and gang violence in South Africa, particularly the Cape Flats.
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  Zimbabwe: an end to the stalemate?

  International Crisis Group, 2007

  This paper analyses the current crisis in Zimbabwe and puts forward recommendations for the establishment of a transition government and democracy in a post-Mugabe era.The paper argues that increased pressure and intervention including from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), and the West could lead to a new political order.
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  The people shall govern: a research report on public participation in policy processes

  Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2006

  This research paper critically investigates some of South Africa’s post-apartheid policy-making processes, in order to assess the extent to which ordinary citizens have been empowered to understand policies and articulate their opinions, needs and aspirations in relation to these policies.
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  Regional media in conflict: case studies in local war reporting

  Institute for War and Peace Reporting, 2000

  This book explores the ways in which media promote and reflect conflict.
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  Report of the Southern Africa civil society consultation

  Southern African Regional Poverty Network, 2004

  This paper reports on the Southern Africa regional consultation conference on the Commission for Africa (CFA). Participants came from civil society groups from Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zimbabwe and Zambia. At the conclusion of the two day meeting the participants released a communiqué of the meeting and its deliberations.
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  Providing security for people: security sector reform in Africa

  SSRonline, 2003

  This document is a collection of articles about Security Sector Reform (SSR) in Africa. They emphasise the importance of viewing SSR programmes in a multi-disciplinary way, and as a practice that involves the sequencing of many programme areas.The paper argues that SSR sequencing strategies can be better guided by macro-level strategic policy, which also helps develop more local integration.
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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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  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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