The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is joining citizens and organisations globally to observe International Day of Peace on September 21 with a call to renew efforts for peacebuilding. The theme for ...
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Working for Safety: The Community Work Programme as a Tool for Preventing Violence and Building Safer Communities
The Community Work Programme (CWP) provides two days of work per week (up to 100 days per year) to unemployed and underemployed people. During the year April 2014 to March 2015 there were 202 599 ...
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How the Community Work Programme Can Reach Its Full Potential as an Instrument of Community Development in South Africa
CSVR has been involved in research on the CWP and its impact on violence and crime prevention since 2013. One of the first observations from this research was that there is a lot of variation ...
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In 2015 CSVR celebrated its 25th anniversary. Since its inception, CSVR has worked towards understanding and preventing violence, healing its effects and building sustainable peace and reconciliation in South Africa, on the continent and across ...
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This research contributes towards explaining the high prevalence of violence against women (VAW) in South Africa, and presents recommendations to inform interventions by women, government departments and the wider society for addressing VAW. It does ...
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03 August 2017 Change beliefs to stem xenophobia Foreign residents gesture at local South Africans during a march by the Mamelodi Concerned Residents in Pretoria earlier this year. Picture: EPA Modiegi Merafe, Richard ...
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