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    Weapons, Violence and the perpetrator-victim nexus in South Africa

    Microcon, 2011
    Given the high levels of crime and violence in South Africa, there may be a temptation for citizens to arm themselves for protection.
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    The work of violence: a timeline of armed attacks at Kennedy Road

    School of Development Studies, University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2010
    On 26 September 2009, violent attacks by an armed group left two men dead and an estimated thousand displaced at the Kennedy Road shack settlement in the South African city of Durban.
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    Tolerance in South Africa: exploring popular attitudes toward foreigners

    Afrobarometer, 2010
    This report suggests that the racist attacks that occurred in South Africa in 2008 were rooted in the micro-politics of townships and informal settlements. The author argues that violence was used as a means to drive foreigners out of South Africa and thereby decrease competition for jobs and other scarce resources. The paper’s findings include:
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    ‘Promoting peace and democracy through security sector reform’, insights #79

    Eldis Gateway to Development and Environment Information, 2010
    Since the late 1990s, security sector reform (SSR) has emerged as a principal activity for promoting peace and stability, and a priority for donors in post-conflict countries. This issue of insights explores the concept of SSR as a coordinated, comprehensive approach to reforming the entire security system, to improve security governance and promote respect for human rights.
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    Security and democracy in Southern Africa

    International Development Research Centre, 2007
    This study investigates the interface between security, at both the national and regional levels, and democratisation. The paper asserts that security and democratic governance are intertwined. The paper focuses particularly on the South African Development Community (SADC) region, studying its countries as relevant example. The paper concludes the following:
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    Governing insecurity: democratic control of military and security establishments in transitional democracies

    Zed Books, 2003
    This book examines the governance of security and insecurity in developing and former communist countries that are becoming more democratic.
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    Understanding current xenophobic attacks and how South Africa can move forward

    Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, South Africa, 2008
    This article is a record of a presentation made by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) to the South African Parliament. In the aftermath of the xenophobic violence of 2008 CSVR was mandated by the South African Human RIghts Commission to coordinate the CSO humanitarian response to the displaced victims.
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    “Let us eat airtime”: youth identity and ‘xenophobic’ violence in a low-income neighbourhood in Cape Town

    Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2009
    This paper was as a result of a survey which was carried out in South Africa to demonstrate how the scarcity of food may have resulted in the May 2008 violence. The author analyses how social identities and divisions function among South Africans and how groups’ positions were understood, by participants, in the context of the broader society. He then discusses terms such as:
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    Sur International Journal on Human Rights: Issue 9 - Sixty years of Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Sur - International Journal on Human Rights, 2008
    This issue of the Sur Journal on International Human Rights presents a number of papers which critically revisit two issues initially raised 60 years ago by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: the indivisibility and the universality of human rights.
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    Views and visions of coexistence in South Africa

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2008
    South Africa was a ‘brave new world’ in 1994. Emerging from generations of painful segregated existence its people were charged with creating a peaceful, co-existing, egalitarian society which sought to correct injustice and tolerate no racial bar. Of course, it is a long process with much more work ahead, however, what can be learned from the South African experience?

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