One of CSVR's priorities is to study, analyse and generate knowledge on violence and conflict. Key to all CSVR's projects is the aim to facilitate the production and sharing of knowledge. Understanding violence and conflict, their causes and dynamics, and ways to prevent and redress violence remains an important challenge in guiding society's attempts to build sustainable peace.
Some of CSVR's projects are primarily designed as research projects, but the majority of research we do happens alongside our advocacy and intervention work. Our research is done in a way that seeks to build the capacity of our partners in addressing issues of violence and reconciliation. We seek to collaborate with and learn from the lived and diverse experiences of communities affected by violence and conflict. Our research occurs at multiple levels – individual, community, national, international – but with a particular focus on Africa as a region and on South Africa.
Research at CSVR fulfils three key functions
CSVR research is both externally focused (documenting and analysing conflict and designing initiatives to address these problems) and internally focused (reflecting on our own practice and documenting what we have learned from our work).
Selected projects:
- Transformative Transitional Justice for Climate Justice
- Nurturing Existing Synergies between Transitional and Climate Justice: A Transformative Approach
- Mainstreaming Popular Participation in Transitional Justice
- Truth Commissions and Sexual Violence: African and Latin American Experiences
- Initiative for Transitional Justice in Africa
- Corporate Symbolic Reparations in Transitional Justice Contexts
- Comparative Study of Transitional Justice in Africa
- Peacebuilding Innovations: International Norms and Local Dynamics in Conflict-Affected Countries
- Youth Inclusion for Violence Prevention
- Urban Violence Prevention through the CWP Public Employment Programme
- Violence, Inequality and Transformation: Apartheid Survivors on South Africa's Ongoing Transition
- International Journal of Transitional Justice
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