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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Justice and Transformation"”.
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The political instrumentalization of religion in the South African truth and reconciliation commission
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has been subject to numerous debates across a wide range of disciplines, including peace and conflict studies, justice and transformation studies, as well as religious studies. In political science, the debates concerning the TRC have …
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‘The Political Economy of Non-Recurrence: Navigating National Healing, Institutional Reform & Militarisation in Zimbabwe'
… thesis contextualises the state of transitional justice, elite outlooks and militarisation in Zimbabwe, whilst drawing attention to the complexities of achieving this reality. The study draws from transitional justice, civil-military relations, as well as the political settlements literature as …
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Organised crime and the South African State post 1994: a social network analysis of organised criminal networks in the Western Cape
Crime, and the criminals that enact it, are no new phenomenon; however, the way in which we conceptualise and understand organised crime requires revision. Orthodox approaches are no longer relevant to current manifestations of crime, nor is it sufficient to fully grasp its endurance. The …
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Unsettling the Settlers: The Impact of the #RhodesMustFall Student Movement on White Student Consciousness at the University of Cape Town
… act of protest against institutionalised racism and lack of transformation since apartheid. Chumani's action sparked a wider student protest movement, calling for the decolonisation of UCT and higher education in South Africa more broadly under the banner of #RhodesMustFall (RMF). RMF brought …
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A critical assessment of the link between climate change and violent conflict in the context of sub-Saharan Africa: The case of Darfur
… as carbon dioxide emission based economies play and have played an accelerating role. But even if 'climate change sceptics’ or 'climate change deniers’ question the credibility of climate change the reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) present a solid base for the …
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The securitisation of ethnic identities and the 1993 genocide in Burundi: an interpretative case study
… investigates the 1993 Genocide of Burundi's Hutu and Tutsi population as the product of the securitisation of ethnic identities. By utilising an International Security Studies approach in combination with a Fanonian conception of colonial society, this dissertation provides an alternative …
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The politics behind the establishment of United Nations-mandated fact-finding missions: the case of Myanmar
… the most impoverished states in Myanmar, looting and killing nine police officers and injuring another five. In turn, military and police targeted and attacked Rohingya armed groups, killing many innocent civilians. On 24 March 2017, the European Union, supported by the United States, the United …
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Travelling hair pains of the past: The continued impact of colonialism on the construction of black women's hair
… It refers to the existing social discussions and analyses of Black women's hair by Black women. And focuses on Black women's racial, gendered, political, and personal experiences with their hair. It explores how their views relate to dominant societal meanings attached to their hair. Over the …
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Transitional Justice in Times of Conflict: A Case Study of the Barza Inter-Communautaire in the Kivus
… of the Second Congo War, a range of transitional justice mechanisms was adopted in the ungoverned Kivu provinces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), characterised by the lack of political settlement, the decline of government control, and the prevalence of different types of …
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Implementing the National Strategic Plan on Gender-Based Violence and Femicide in South Africa: The challenges of policy implementation
… National Strategic Plan of Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (NSP GBVF) in South Africa. The NSP was introduced in 2020 as a multistakeholder policy to address the high levels of GBV in the country, however, has failed to reach a number of its targets in the first three years. Six semi-structured …
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Resilient Apartheid survivors and their navigation of historical trauma at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
The history of South Africa entails colonial and apartheid era violence and trauma (visible and invisible) which ingrained various socio-economic-political-agrarian orders of brutalisation, mass killings, and the displacement of local people from their culture, language, land, agency, and …
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Disruptive bodies and peripheral politics: How naked protests disrupt the patriarchal public sphere
… female students at the University of Witwatersrand (hereafter Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa staged a naked protest to call for a ceasefire during the peak of the #FeesMustFall (FMF) protests. The FMF movement emerged in late 2015 as a student revolt against costly higher education fees …
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Dignity Takings and Dignity Restoration of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Colonial Canada: A qualitative analysis of the transformative potential of free, prior and informed consent
… larger project of ongoing settler colonialism and for its inability to meaningfully respond to the aspirations and demands of Indigenous peoples for self-determination. However, in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report, the important recommendation was made for Canada to adopt …
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Politics of reparations: unravelling the power relations in the Herero/Nama genocide reparations claims
… is the first genocide of the twentieth century and has stirred debates around reparations for historical injustices. Reparative Justice has evolved into a victim-centric pillar of justice, in which perpetrators are legally and morally obligated to pay reparations in its several forms to its …
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Ashes scattered in the wind: The Romanies as Marginalised Victims of Racial Persecution, Genocide and the Holocaust
… marked by centuries of prejudice, abuse, slavery and murder. Central to this history of oppression is the Nazi regime’s racial persecution and genocide of the Romanies during the Holocaust. However, in the Federal Republic of Germany, the devastating experiences of the Romanies during the …
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No Place Like Home: African Refugees and the Making of a New Queer Identity
For reasons of necessity, urgency, and sometimes choice, queer Africans cross borders and find their lives unfolding in diasporic spaces. Refugee claims based on sexual orientation and gender identity persecution make up 12% of all refugee cases in Canada, with queer African refugees constituting …
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Fashioning transformation? Implications for the politics of recognition among Cape Town youth
… idea that fashion may assist in creating social justice and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa. 2Bop takes its inspiration from the classic arcade video games of the eighties and nineties, and the experiences of playing them as a child on the Cape Flats. The brand references Cape Flats …