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    The Geneva Conventions and South African law

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    South Africa’s adoption of the Implementation of the Geneva Conventions Act, 2012 (Act 8 of 2012) (Geneva Conventions Act) comes as a welcome addition to the country’s legal landscape.
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    SA’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding experiences in the DRC: lessons learnt

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding engagements in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It¤ identifies lessons learnt that could inform the policy and programming development of the envisaged South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA).
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    Burundi: missed opportunities for South African post-conflict development and peacebuilding?

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding engagements in Burundi and identifies lessons that could inform the policy and programming development of the envisaged South African Development Partnership Agency (SADPA).
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    South Africa and South Sudan: lessons for post-conflict development and peacebuilding partnerships

    Institute for Security Studies, 2013
    This policy brief analyses South Africa’s post-conflict development and peacebuilding in South Sudan. South Africa has fraternal relations with South Sudan stemming from the ties of the liberation struggles of the African National Congress (ANC) and the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M).
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    People power: how civil society blocked an arms shipment for Zimbabwe

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2009
    In April 2008, a Chinese ship carrying arms destined for Zimbabwe’s Defence Force attempted to offload those weapons in Durban’s harbour, so that they might be transported across South African territory to land-locked Zimbabwe.
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    Marikana as a tipping point? The political economy of labour tensions in South Africa’s mining industry and how best to resolve them

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2013
    Before 16 August 2012, the platinum-mining South African town of Marikana was still largely unknown outside the mining sector. On that fateful day, everything changed. A toxic cocktail of a brutal police force and grievance-mobilised workers resulted in the death of 34 striking mineworkers.
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    The persistence of military identities among ex-combatants in South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2013
    This report focuses on the ways in which ex-combatants have remained militarised at both an individual and a collective level in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues that ex-combatants’ military identities and skills can be both beneficial and detrimental to their families, communities and the state.
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    The Power of Naming: ‘Senseless Violence’ and Violent Law in Post-Apartheid South Africa

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2012
    This report focuses on vigilantism, on the practice of ‘necklacing’ as a form of punishment, and on police violence in South Africa post-apartheid. The report engages with a series of questions about how popular forms of justice are imagined and enacted and about what the persistence of forms of violent punishment that originated during apartheid signifies in South Africa today.
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    Leaving the gangster things to the boys growing up now

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2012
    This paper examines the intersection of physical violence, structural violence, and masculinity through the life history narrative of a 20‐year‐old man exiting an informal gang in Gugulethu, a township in Cape Town.
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    The BRICS and international peacebuilding and statebuilding

    Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre, 2013
    The emergence of the BRICS has generated a renewed debate about peacebuilding and donor activity. This has slowly influenced the aims, norms and practices of international peacebuilding, statebuilding and development.

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