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This article examines South Africa's Community Work Programme (CWP) as a case study of an attempt to address two key dilemmas facing peacebuilding theory and practise: (a) balancing the need to address immediate and long-term causes of conflict and violence and (b) balancing the need for a large-scale systematic approach whilst creating space for local ownership and agency. Drawing on in-depth case studies of six CWP community interventions, it demonstrates how this national public employment sector programme has been shaped into a vehicle for peacebuilding by local actors. Whilst these initiatives still face resistance to local ownership and innovation, they demonstrate how local agency can integrate national developmental priorities with local safety and security priorities.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Table of international instruments -- National legislation -- Table of cases -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 Origin, context and development of transitional justice -- Defining transitional justice -- Origins of transitional justice -- Contemporary development of transitional justice: the era of democratisation and human rights -- Accountability for mass atrocities: dealing with the past, looking to the future -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Victims, victimology and transitional justice -- Who is a victim? -- Victimology and transitional justice -- The role of victims in transitional justice -- Justice -- Truth and reparations -- Guarantees of non-repetition -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Peace versus justice and rule of law debates in transitions -- The rule of law -- 'Truth versus justice' and 'peace versus justice' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Prosecutions for abuses and gross violations of human rights -- Transitional justice: the Nuremberg and Tokyo paradigm -- Prosecution for gross violations of human rights as a transitional justice mechanism - prospects and challenges -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Truth commissions -- The right to truth -- History and features of truth commissions -- Challenges to the work of truth commissions -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Lustration and the personnel reform of the state -- The problem of inherited personnel and its problematic solutions -- What is in the name? Terminology of personnel reform -- Varieties of personnel reforms -- The origin of personnel systems -- Controversies of personnel reform and liberal democracy -- Effects on trust -- Effects on democratisation -- Conclusion -- Suggested further reading -- Chapter 7 Reparations.

"The reconciliatory project [in South Africa] seems to have completely fallen away from the national agenda, and many of the TRC's [Truth and Reconciliation Commission's] recommendations remain unimplemented and unrealised. Has reconciliation been successful? Do South Africans feel reconciled? What is the way forward? This book brings together leading social scientists and researchers to critically interrogate the success of the reconciliatory project, using ten years of public opinion data collected by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) through the South African Reconciliation Barometer survey."--Back cover