CSVR is a multi-disciplinary institute involved in research, policy formation, community interventions, service delivery, education and training, as well as providing consultancy services. The primary goal of CSVR is to use its expertise in building reconciliation, democracy and a human rights culture and in preventing violence in South Africa and in other countries in Africa.
Vision: CSVR is an innovator in preventing violence and building peaceful societies.
Mission: CSVR adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and prevent violence, heal its effects and build sustainable peace locally, continentally and globally.
Institutional Representatives:
Hugo van der Merwe, Transitional Justice Programme Manager
Hugo van der Merwe is the Transitional Justice Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in South Africa. Since joining CSVR in 1997, he has developed and managed numerous research projects evaluating the work and impact of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and managed various research, advocacy and intervention projects relating to transitional justice in South Africa and the African continent. Hugo is the Co-Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Transitional Justice. He is the co-editor of “Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice” (USIP Press, 2009), “Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Did the TRC Deliver?” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), and “Conflict Resolution Theory and Practice” (Manchester University Press, 1993). Hugo received his doctorate in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University (1999) and a BSc from the University of Cape Town (majoring in Statistics and Sociology). Hugo was previously employed at the Centre for Applied Legal Studies (Johannesburg)Centre for Conflict Resolution (Cape Town), Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution (USA) and the National Institute for Dispute Resolution (USA). Hugo specialises in research design and management, and his content expertise extends to transitional justice, conflict resolution, DDR, restorative justice, rule of law, and reconciliation. He teaches courses on Post-conflict Justice and Justice and Transformation in Practice in the University of Cape Town’s MA programme in Justice and Transformation.
Malose Langa, Associate Senior Researcher
Professor Malose Langa is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the School of Community and Human Development, Department of Psychology, at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa and Associate Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR). His research interests include risk-taking behaviours amongst the youth and their role in politics, substance abuse and addiction, trauma of collective violence and the psychology of men (masculinity) in post-apartheid South Africa. He has published book chapters and journal articles on violence and other topics on masculinities. He is the author of Becoming Men: Black Masculinities in a South African Township and the recent co-edited book entitled: youth in South Africa: agency, invisibility and development published by Mistra.
CSVR is a multi-disciplinary institute involved in research, policy formation, community interventions, service delivery, education and training, as well as providing consultancy services. The primary goal of CSVR is to use its expertise in building reconciliation, democracy and a human rights culture and in preventing violence in South Africa and in other countries in Africa. Vision: CSVR is an innovator in preventing violence and building peaceful societies. Mission: CSVR adopts a multi-disciplinary approach to understand and prevent violence, heal its effects and build sustainable peace locally, continentally and globally. Institutional Representatives: Hugo van der Merwe, Transitional Justice Programme Manager Hugo…