Race, Violence and Citizenship
Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation
Amount: $100,000
Grant Period: 8/1/2009 to 7/31/2011
Program: Civil Society
Program Area: South Africa
Geographic Focus: South Africa: South Africa (At Large)
This grant continues support to the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation to conduct action research, advocacy, and public policy programs for the prevention of community-based collective violence. Recent activities focused on investigating judgments of Equity Courts, analyzing racial intolerance and xenophobia in selected communities, facilitating community dialogues to ease tensions with migrant and refugee populations, and finding nonviolent ways to resolve conflicts. Future plans include analyzing collective violence due to xenophobia and service delivery protests in Gauteng province, developing community-based pilot intervention strategies promoting nonviolent resolutions to conflict; assisting government in developing appropriate policies to deter violent attacks, and disseminating research analyses and case studies. The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation is a South African policy and research center working on various aspects of violence and reconciliation.
Organizational Website: http://www.csvr.org.za
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CSVR is a multi-disciplinary institute that seeks to understand and prevent violence, heal its effects and build sustainable peace at the community, national and regional levels.
