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at the Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town

Free conflict teaching resources

Tuesday, August 29, 2006
These resources, and many others, are available from a special version of the home page at Beyond Intractability.org -- the website of the Intractable Conflict Knowledge Base Project. The resources are highlighted by number. More ...

Pambazuka News

Thursday, August 24, 2006
Pambazuka News is produced by Fahamu, an organisation that uses ICT to assist organisations and social movements aspiring to progressive social change. Pambazuka News est maintenant disponible en Français!

Transitional Justice Forum blog

Jonathan Edelstein, Brandon Hamber, and Helena Cobban have launched the Transitional Justice Forum blog for "resources and multi-disciplinary discussion on the challenges of justice during transitions ..." with links and archive of relevant articles.

Remembrance of the Slave Trade

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is celebrated on 23 August of every year. The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.

The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the transatlantic slave trade in the memory of all peoples. [Source: UNESCO]

The Human Rights Education Associates website features News, Learning material and Useful links More ...

Human Rights Tools

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
This website and newsletter are produced by a small and independent group of volunteers who aim to facilitate the use of information on human rights available on the Internet. Provides:
A library of carefully 300+ selected annotated resources
Key resources for country analysis
Daily updated human rights headlines
A free newsletter

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New resources on children and armed conflict

Thursday, August 17, 2006
Two new resources on children and armed conflict are featured on the IANSA website. The first is a profile of action in the UN Security Council.There is also a report on building partnerships between the UN system and civil society to end violations against children during armed conflict. More...

Parliaments of the South Reports

A series of reports emanating from SAIIA's Strengthening Parliamentary Democracy in SADC Countries project. Each report focuses on a specific parliament in one of the 13 SADC countries. The analysis presented in each report is based on specialist primary and secondary research conducted into the state of parliamentary democracy in that country. The reports then make recommendations on how parliamentary democracy might be improved, strengthened and sustained. More...

New Eldis Conflict and Security Blog

The conflict editors will be providing daily news and research updates.We aim to stimulate debate on all areas of conflict and development and encourage readers to leave comments. More ...

Wikepedia and Africanists

A thread from the discussion logs of H-Africa" Wikipedia, academia, and "Wikimania" from Ann McDougall, University of Alberta posted on 4 Aug 2006

I'm rather pleased to see this discussion taking place here. Some time ago John Thornton wrote a substantial piece on Wikipedia, having just himself edited a piece on 'Kongo' (if I remember correctly). It was invitation to us, as Africanists to use this very public, very accessible venue to do what we always complain is not being done -- having some of our'expertise' out there where it will be listened to and used, in a format in which it can be understood by non-academics and non-Africanists.
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