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New Peace AU Website
The Peace and Security
Department of the African Union Commission (AU PSD) provides
support to the efforts aimed at promoting peace, security and stability
on the Continent. The AU PSD is an ISS partner and have launched a new website aimed at highlighting key AU PSD activities, visit the new website at www.peaceau.org ISS Notice: Festive Season 2012/2013
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ISS offices will close on 21 December 2012 and reopen on 8 January 2013
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The final edition of the ISS Weekly will be released on 6 December
2012, and the first edition for 2013 will be released on 17 January 2013
The ISS wishes all a happy and prosperous festive season
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New Hopes, Old Challenges
Dimpho Motsamai, Researcher, Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division, ISS Pretoria
SADC Launches its Revised Strategic Indicative Plan for the Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation (SIPO II).
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ISS Paper 241: African Efforts to Close the Impunity Gap -
Lessons for complementarity from national and regional actions
 The position taken by the African Union towards the ICC creates the
impression that African states are resistant to international criminal
justice. This paper argues that the reality is quite different. The
continent provides many examples of international justice in practice. A
review of selected domestic and regional efforts suggests that a richer
understanding of the Rome Statute’s ‘complementarity’ scheme is
developing - one involving states, regional organisations and civil
society working to close the impunity gap. Such actions are giving
effect to the notion that while the ICC can provide justice through a
few highly publicised trials, for justice to be brought home in any
meaningful way, domestic action is essential.
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ISS Seminar Report: War of the Flea: considering a provocative documentary on farm murders in South Africa
Since 2007, the
South African Police Service (SAPS) had stopped presenting official statistics
on the number of farm attacks and related murders. It was likely that the
government had stopped seeing these attacks as a priority as there had been a
40% decrease in the number of attacks between 2001 and 2007. However, there had
been a 20% increase in 2007 compared to 2006 and attacks on this relatively
small and highly organised group of people continued. By refusing to take the
concerns of commercial farmers seriously, the government allowed conspiracy
theories to develop.
Recently the Institute for
Race Relations claimed that commercial farmers were twice as likely to be
murdered than the average South African.
The recently made documentary
titled War of the Flea engages with
the various dimensions of farm attacks in contemporary South Africa and
explores the causes and consequences of this crime at both an individual and
political level.
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CPRA Daily Briefing
The
Conflict Prevention and Risk Analysis Division host daily briefings.
The briefing notes are the minutes of these meeting during which each
regional expert of the Programme reports on the latest human security
developments in his/her region.
Latest briefing notes:
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East and Horn of Africa:
Violence in Kenya: a
climate change dimension Read More...
South Africa Insight Episode 31: Deciphering parliament, Nkandla and the NPA
Gareth Newham explains the latest developments in the motion of no confidence in President Zuma, the central issues around the Nkandla development and key issues in assessing the National Prosecuting Authority.
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Oil and gas discovery in Kenya - Opportunities and challenges Part 1
Ms. Wanjiku Manyara, General Manager of Petroleum Institute of East Africa (PIEA) highlighs the current status of oil and gas exploration in East Africa, consisting of about 28 prospective sedimentary basins.
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Oil and gas discovery in Kenya - Opportunities and challenges Part 2
Joseph Kathiai Kurauka, School of Environmental Studies, Kenyatta University speaks about the ‘Community Development and Environmental Aspects’ of Oil and Gas discoveries.
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Oil and gas discovery in Kenya - Opportunities and challenges Part 3
Mr. Eliud Omeri, Director, Turkana Development Initiatives, speaks about the case of oil discovery in Turkana, Kenya.
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Assessing the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)
Ms Jean Redpath, Civil Society Prison Reform Initiative, Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape and author of the ISS Monograph `Failing to prosecute?` explains her findings.
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