Series

The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) contributes to the building of violence-free societies and the promotion of sustainable peace and reconciliation by means of research, advocacy and other interventions. The CSVR Publications reflect the organization's topics of research including criminal justice, peacebuilding, ex-combatant reintegration, transitional justice and violence prevention.

Publishers:	Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)
Publications:	Gender and Torture: Does it Matter? Accountability and National Reconciliation in South Africa Our Journey as the Voice of Voiceless Developing an African Torture Rehabilitation Model African Union Transitional Justice: Policy Framework in Practice African Union Transitional Justice Policy Framework in Practice Peace, Justice and Accountability after War and Dictatorship- Prospects for the African Context Homophobia, Injustice and 'Corrective Rape' in Post-Apartheid South Africa The Power of Naming The Persistence of Military Identities Among Ex-Combatants in South Africa Opportunities and Challenges of South-South Partnership Exploring Experiences of Torture and CIDT that Occurred in South Africa Amongst Non-Nationals Living in Johannesburg Leaving the Gangster Things to the Boys Growing up Now Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and its Consequences in South Africa Traumatic Stress Update 2/2 Traumatic Stress Update 1/2 African Union Commission Consultation with African Union Member States on Transitional Justice The Smoke That Calls Promotion of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy Developing a Use of Force Policy for the South African Police Service Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and its Consequences in South Africa (December 2011) Anger, Hatred, or Just Heartlessness? Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South Africa (January-June 2010) Advocating Justice Let's End it Now The Land of Milk and Honey 'Anyone Can Be a Rapist...' A Mountain to Climb Negotiating Transition Torture in South Africa Why Does South Africa Have Such High Rates of Violent Crime? Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South Africa (2009) Southern African Regional Assessment Mission Report: Angola The Gendered Nature of Xenophobia in South Africa A State of Sexual Tyranny Adding Insult to Injury Gender-Based Violence in Transition Scaling Up for Zero Tolerance South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 30 of 2008 and the National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Bill, 23 of 2008 Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) "We Need to do it for Ourselves" Tracking Justice Streets of Pain, Streets of Sorrow Understanding Current Xenophobic Attacks and How South Africa Can Move Forward The Role of Ex-Combatants and Veterans in Violence in Transitional Societies The Inter-Relationship Between Violence, Displacement, and the Transition to Stability in the Great Lakes Region Why do We Fear and Hate the 'Other'? Restoring Dignity: Current Psychosocial Interventions with Ex-Combatants in South Africa Preventing and Combating Torture in South Africa Review of Existing Mechanisms for the Prevention and Investigation of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in South Africa Subliminal Terror? Former Combatants' Involvement in Crime and Crime Prevention Policy Dialogue: The Role of Ex-combatants in Memorialisation Processes in South Africa Is Punishment the Appropriate Response to Gross Human Rights Violations? The Politics of Restorative Justice in Post-conflict South Africa and Beyond Someone Stole My Smile Where is the Money to Address Gender-Based Violence? Bureaucracy Versus Democratisation Prisons in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy Undamaged Reputations? After the Transition Doing Time in a Gauteng Juvenline Correctional Centre for Males Fear, Violence and Sexual Violence in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males Policy Dialogue: Skills Development and Job Creation External Evaluation of the Three Year Integrated Youth Offender Programme In Boksburg Correctional Centre South Africa The Violent Nature of Crime in South Africa The Violent Nature of Crime in South Africa (Executive Summary) An Overview of the Implementation of the SAPS Policy & Five Year (2000-2005) Strategic Plan On HIV & AIDS History on Their Own Terms Expanding Abused Women's Access to Housing Sudan: Youth Peace Building Training - Participants Pack Sudan: Youth Peace Building Training - Trainers Manual Women on the Run: Female Survivors of Torture Amongst Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers and Refugees in South Africa Child-Headed Households and Human Rights Our Journey with HIV/AIDS Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission "Marriage is Like Sitting on Red Coals" Waiting Opportunities The Ties That Bind Towards a New Approach Equal or Different Diversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service Public Participation, Policy Processes and Violent Conflict Evaluation of the 2005 Ex-Combatants' Dialogues Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's Prisons Minority Report Situational Analysis of Boksburg Youth Centre Between a Rock and a Hard Place Using the Law to Secure Women's Rights to Housing and Security of Tenure Going Somewhere Slowly? Shades of Prejudice "Human Dignity Has No Nationality” 'Show Me the Money' The Price of Protection Putting People First? A Survey of Witness Satisfaction in Three Gauteng Magistrates' Courts Safety and Security in the Rural Parts of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Area Memorialisation and Reconciliation in Transitional Southern African Societies Strengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa Has Everything Been Done? Victim Services for Human Rights Violations in Malawi On the Margins: Violence Against Women with Disabilities A Review of the Integrated Youth Offender Programme Piloted in Boksburg Juvenile Correctional Centre with the 'Inkanyezi Yentathakusa' Vuka S'hambe: Young Prisoners' Awakening Victims' Perspectives About the Human Rights Violations Hearings Seeking Reconciliation and Reintegration Urban Predators Prison Overcrowding and the Constitutional Right to Adequate Accommodation in South Africa The SAPS Johannesburg Area Police Transformation Survey Results Interpreting the Body Count Transitioning Out of Violence Freedom from Strife The Police That We Want Strengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa Through Internal Systems for Officer Control Engendering Wartime Conflict Factors Affecting Adherence to Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault Arresting Dissent Reconciliation Through Amnesty? Traditional Leaders in the eThekwini Metropolitan Region Restorative Justice Initiative Research Report on the Victim Offender Conferencing Project Nongoloza's Children Reconciliación y reparación: un balance Good Management Practices for Promoting Police Integrity Numbers that Count Local Level Civilian Oversight of the Metropolitan Police Departments in South Africa "Every Six Hours a Women is Killed by her Intimate Partner" Race and Reconciliation in a Post-TRC South Africa Provincial Government Oversight of the Police Towards a Safety Strategy for the Education and Heritage Components of the Greater Kliptown Development Project The Report of the 2004 SAPS Area Johannesburg Strategic Management Imbizo Sector Policing Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Draft White Paper on Corrections in South Africa, December 2003 Empowerment through Living Memory That Place is "kwaMnyamandawo" Symbolic Reparations: A Fractured Opportunity Towards Improving Collaboration between the South African Police Service and the Metropolitan Police Services An Overview of the Housing Policy and Debates, Particularly in Relation to Women (or Vulnerable Groupings) Police Transformation and the South African TRC Race, Citizenship and Violence in Transitioning Societies 'A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake' Southern Africa Reconciliation Project Still Not Talking Youth Position Paper Prepared for the Crime Prevention Alliance "We Are Living in a Forgotten Place" Towards an Anti-Corruption Strategy for SAPS Area Johannesburg Giving Women Their Voice Creating the Nation The State of Access to Information in South Africa Spaces of Violence, Places of Fear Democratic Reform of Police Giving a Face to Crime Preventing Police Corruption A Case Study of Constitution Hill Killing and the Constitution The Role of the Church in Promoting Reconciliation in Post–TRC South Africa South African Criminal Law and Battered Women Who Kill: Discussion Document 1 South African Criminal Law and Battered Women Who Kill: Discussion Document 2 Thinking Big: The National Urban Renewal Programme and Crime Prevention in South Africa's Metropolitan Cities Thinking Big: The National Urban Renewal Programme and Crime Prevention in South Africa's Metropolitan Cities Preventing Criminality Among Young People Victim Awareness and Trauma Management in Metropolitan Police Services Metropolitan Police Services in South Africa, 2002 Reform and Stasis: Transformation in South African Prisons Tackling Police Corruption in South Africa New Wine from an Old Cask? Monitoring Police Violence and Torture in South Africa "Uncivil Society" Racism and Discrimination in the South African Penal System The Legal Framework on the Use of Lethal Force in Effecting Arrest The Legal Profession and the TRC Metro Government Safety and Security Arrangements in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality Police Brutality in South Africa Xenophobia: A New Pathology for a New South Africa? Wishing Us Away: Challenges Facing Ex-Combatants in the 'New' South Africa From the SADF to the SANDF National Narrative versus Local Truths Now that the War is Over Refugees, Safety and Xenophobia in South African Cities Justice Denied Journey into the Inner Self and Encounter with the Other Journey into the Inner Self and Encounter with the Other Now We Have Nothing Municipal Policing in South Africa Report of the National Strategy Workshop on Reparations Prison Conditions in Africa Three Talks on the Topic: 'What is Racism?' South Africa's Criminal Justice System Supporting Post-Conflict Reconciliation Update on Municipal Policing (Mid-2001) Gangs, Pagad & the State Guardian or Gangster? Mapogo a Mathamaga Reconciliation and the Transformation of Conflicts From Low Intensity War to Mafia War Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons Violence, Vengeance and Gender The Operation of the Criminal Justice System in Dealing with the Violence at Amplats Sentencing (A Compensation Scheme for Victims of Crime in South Africa) Future Challenges to Policy-Making in Countries in Transition What Do We Tell Our Children? Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System In the Line of Duty? A Duty to Answer Questions? Negotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South Africa Towards Understanding and Combating Police Corruption Police Reform and South Africa's Transition

Publishers:

Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR)

Publications:

Gender and Torture: Does it Matter?
Accountability and National Reconciliation in South Africa
Our Journey as the Voice of Voiceless
Developing an African Torture Rehabilitation Model
African Union Transitional Justice: Policy Framework in Practice
African Union Transitional Justice Policy Framework in Practice
Peace, Justice and Accountability after War and Dictatorship- Prospects for the African Context
Homophobia, Injustice and 'Corrective Rape' in Post-Apartheid South Africa
The Power of Naming
The Persistence of Military Identities Among Ex-Combatants in South Africa
Opportunities and Challenges of South-South Partnership
Exploring Experiences of Torture and CIDT that Occurred in South Africa Amongst Non-Nationals Living in Johannesburg
Leaving the Gangster Things to the Boys Growing up Now
Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and its Consequences in South Africa
Traumatic Stress Update 2/2
Traumatic Stress Update 1/2
African Union Commission Consultation with African Union Member States on Transitional Justice
The Smoke That Calls
Promotion of the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS) HIV/AIDS Workplace Policy
Developing a Use of Force Policy for the South African Police Service
Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and its Consequences in South Africa (December 2011)
Anger, Hatred, or Just Heartlessness?
Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South Africa (January-June 2010)
Advocating Justice
Let's End it Now
The Land of Milk and Honey
'Anyone Can Be a Rapist...'
A Mountain to Climb
Negotiating Transition
Torture in South Africa
Why Does South Africa Have Such High Rates of Violent Crime?
Profiling Torture II: Addressing Torture and Its Consequences in South Africa (2009)
Southern African Regional Assessment Mission Report: Angola
The Gendered Nature of Xenophobia in South Africa
A State of Sexual Tyranny
Adding Insult to Injury
Gender-Based Violence in Transition
Scaling Up for Zero Tolerance
South African Police Service Amendment Bill, 30 of 2008 and the National Prosecuting Authority Amendment Bill, 23 of 2008
Post Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
"We Need to do it for Ourselves"
Tracking Justice
Streets of Pain, Streets of Sorrow
Understanding Current Xenophobic Attacks and How South Africa Can Move Forward
The Role of Ex-Combatants and Veterans in Violence in Transitional Societies
The Inter-Relationship Between Violence, Displacement, and the Transition to Stability in the Great Lakes Region
Why do We Fear and Hate the 'Other'?
Restoring Dignity: Current Psychosocial Interventions with Ex-Combatants in South Africa
Preventing and Combating Torture in South Africa
Review of Existing Mechanisms for the Prevention and Investigation of Torture and Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment or Punishment in South Africa
Subliminal Terror?
Former Combatants' Involvement in Crime and Crime Prevention
Policy Dialogue: The Role of Ex-combatants in Memorialisation Processes in South Africa
Is Punishment the Appropriate Response to Gross Human Rights Violations?
The Politics of Restorative Justice in Post-conflict South Africa and Beyond
Someone Stole My Smile
Where is the Money to Address Gender-Based Violence?
Bureaucracy Versus Democratisation
Prisons in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy
Undamaged Reputations?
After the Transition
Doing Time in a Gauteng Juvenline Correctional Centre for Males
Fear, Violence and Sexual Violence in a Gauteng Juvenile Correctional Centre for Males
Policy Dialogue: Skills Development and Job Creation
External Evaluation of the Three Year Integrated Youth Offender Programme In Boksburg Correctional Centre South Africa
The Violent Nature of Crime in South Africa
The Violent Nature of Crime in South Africa (Executive Summary)
An Overview of the Implementation of the SAPS Policy & Five Year (2000-2005) Strategic Plan On HIV & AIDS
History on Their Own Terms
Expanding Abused Women's Access to Housing
Sudan: Youth Peace Building Training - Participants Pack
Sudan: Youth Peace Building Training - Trainers Manual
Women on the Run: Female Survivors of Torture Amongst Zimbabwean Asylum Seekers and Refugees in South Africa
Child-Headed Households and Human Rights
Our Journey with HIV/AIDS
Ghana’s National Reconciliation Commission
"Marriage is Like Sitting on Red Coals"
Waiting Opportunities
The Ties That Bind
Towards a New Approach
Equal or Different
Diversity and Transformation in the South African Police Service
Public Participation, Policy Processes and Violent Conflict
Evaluation of the 2005 Ex-Combatants' Dialogues
Violence and Abuse in the Lives of Women and Girls Incarcerated in Three Gauteng Women's Prisons
Minority Report
Situational Analysis of Boksburg Youth Centre
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Using the Law to Secure Women's Rights to Housing and Security of Tenure
Going Somewhere Slowly?
Shades of Prejudice
"Human Dignity Has No Nationality”
'Show Me the Money'
The Price of Protection
Putting People First? A Survey of Witness Satisfaction in Three Gauteng Magistrates' Courts
Safety and Security in the Rural Parts of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Area
Memorialisation and Reconciliation in Transitional Southern African Societies
Strengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa
Has Everything Been Done?
Victim Services for Human Rights Violations in Malawi
On the Margins: Violence Against Women with Disabilities
A Review of the Integrated Youth Offender Programme Piloted in Boksburg Juvenile Correctional Centre with the 'Inkanyezi Yentathakusa'
Vuka S'hambe: Young Prisoners' Awakening
Victims' Perspectives About the Human Rights Violations Hearings
Seeking Reconciliation and Reintegration
Urban Predators
Prison Overcrowding and the Constitutional Right to Adequate Accommodation in South Africa
The SAPS Johannesburg Area Police Transformation Survey Results
Interpreting the Body Count
Transitioning Out of Violence
Freedom from Strife
The Police That We Want
Strengthening Democratic Policing in South Africa Through Internal Systems for Officer Control
Engendering Wartime Conflict
Factors Affecting Adherence to Post-Exposure Prophylaxis in the Aftermath of Sexual Assault
Arresting Dissent
Reconciliation Through Amnesty?
Traditional Leaders in the eThekwini Metropolitan Region
Restorative Justice Initiative Research Report on the Victim Offender Conferencing Project
Nongoloza's Children
Reconciliación y reparación: un balance
Good Management Practices for Promoting Police Integrity
Numbers that Count
Local Level Civilian Oversight of the Metropolitan Police Departments in South Africa
"Every Six Hours a Women is Killed by her Intimate Partner"
Race and Reconciliation in a Post-TRC South Africa
Provincial Government Oversight of the Police
Towards a Safety Strategy for the Education and Heritage Components of the Greater Kliptown Development Project
The Report of the 2004 SAPS Area Johannesburg Strategic Management Imbizo
Sector Policing
Submission to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services on the Draft White Paper on Corrections in South Africa, December 2003
Empowerment through Living Memory
That Place is "kwaMnyamandawo"
Symbolic Reparations: A Fractured Opportunity
Towards Improving Collaboration between the South African Police Service and the Metropolitan Police Services
An Overview of the Housing Policy and Debates, Particularly in Relation to Women (or Vulnerable Groupings)
Police Transformation and the South African TRC
Race, Citizenship and Violence in Transitioning Societies
'A Snake Gives Birth to a Snake'
Southern Africa Reconciliation Project
Still Not Talking
Youth Position Paper Prepared for the Crime Prevention Alliance
"We Are Living in a Forgotten Place"
Towards an Anti-Corruption Strategy for SAPS Area Johannesburg
Giving Women Their Voice
Creating the Nation
The State of Access to Information in South Africa
Spaces of Violence, Places of Fear
Democratic Reform of Police
Giving a Face to Crime
Preventing Police Corruption
A Case Study of Constitution Hill
Killing and the Constitution
The Role of the Church in Promoting Reconciliation in Post–TRC South Africa
South African Criminal Law and Battered Women Who Kill: Discussion Document 1
South African Criminal Law and Battered Women Who Kill: Discussion Document 2
Thinking Big: The National Urban Renewal Programme and Crime Prevention in South Africa's Metropolitan Cities
Thinking Big: The National Urban Renewal Programme and Crime Prevention in South Africa's Metropolitan Cities
Preventing Criminality Among Young People
Victim Awareness and Trauma Management in Metropolitan Police Services
Metropolitan Police Services in South Africa, 2002
Reform and Stasis: Transformation in South African Prisons
Tackling Police Corruption in South Africa
New Wine from an Old Cask?
Monitoring Police Violence and Torture in South Africa
"Uncivil Society"
Racism and Discrimination in the South African Penal System
The Legal Framework on the Use of Lethal Force in Effecting Arrest
The Legal Profession and the TRC
Metro Government Safety and Security Arrangements in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Municipality
Police Brutality in South Africa
Xenophobia: A New Pathology for a New South Africa?
Wishing Us Away: Challenges Facing Ex-Combatants in the 'New' South Africa
From the SADF to the SANDF
National Narrative versus Local Truths
Now that the War is Over
Refugees, Safety and Xenophobia in South African Cities
Justice Denied
Journey into the Inner Self and Encounter with the Other
Journey into the Inner Self and Encounter with the Other
Now We Have Nothing
Municipal Policing in South Africa
Report of the National Strategy Workshop on Reparations
Prison Conditions in Africa
Three Talks on the Topic: 'What is Racism?'
South Africa's Criminal Justice System
Supporting Post-Conflict Reconciliation
Update on Municipal Policing (Mid-2001)
Gangs, Pagad & the State
Guardian or Gangster? Mapogo a Mathamaga
Reconciliation and the Transformation of Conflicts
From Low Intensity War to Mafia War
Sex, Sexual Violence and Coercion in Men's Prisons
Violence, Vengeance and Gender
The Operation of the Criminal Justice System in Dealing with the Violence at Amplats
Sentencing (A Compensation Scheme for Victims of Crime in South Africa)
Future Challenges to Policy-Making in Countries in Transition
What Do We Tell Our Children?
Witnesses in the Criminal Justice System
In the Line of Duty?
A Duty to Answer Questions?
Negotiating the Release of Political Prisoners in South Africa
Towards Understanding and Combating Police Corruption
Police Reform and South Africa's Transition