Decrease in support for democracy in SA demands the GNU to step up
Afrobarometer, the most comprehensive African public opinion research initiative into [...]
Peace and Democracy in Africa: Media Perspectives
On July 31, 2024, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation [...]
Trust in the Government and its institutions. What support for a GNU governing coalition in South Africa?
Despondency and the lack of trust Leading in to the [...]
Justice Before Healing: 30 Years On, Communities Still Carry the Wounds of Apartheid and Yearn for Healing
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) recently released a [...]
PAREN AUTJP Monitor Call for Articles
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION (IJR) PAN-AFRICAN RECONCILIATION NETWORK (PAREN) [...]
Message of Solidarity with the South Africans Women’s Peace Table on the Social Unrest in the Country convened by the Getrude Shope Women Mediators Network
Cape Town, Friday 23 July 2021 The Institute for Justice [...]
Implementing the African Union transitional justice policy: Prospects and challenges
The crises around our continent do not seem to have decreased after the initial promise of the range of policy frameworks that we have adopted as an African continent. Most recently, the crisis in Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, which pits the government against a resurgent Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLP), has led to more than 40,000 refugees fleeing into the neighbouring Sudan, and untold casualties of war.
The growing importance of inclusive development in fostering peace – Reflections from inclusive economies as we look towards 2021
Over the course of 2020, the preservation of economic security took centre stage as businesses and people were hard hit by a series of lockdowns intended to slow the spread of Covid-19. Sadly, economic insecurity increased as those forced to the margins constituted an ever-growing portion of our society.
Year-end thoughts from Jan Hofmeyr: Acting executive director
The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation is committed to the building of fair, democratic and inclusive societies. Due to its roots in South Africa’s transition of the early 1990s, the organisation has over the past two decades concentrated its pursuit of this vision on post-conflict societies in the midst of transitional justice processes across Africa. In recent years it has increasingly been called upon to share this experience in similar contexts further abroad.
US Election: Why did the polls get it wrong – again?
US Election: Why did the polls get it wrong – [...]