| 21 March 2013 |
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| Feature: How Kenya delivered its peaceful general elections |
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How did Kenya deliver peaceful elections on 4 March 2013, defying observers` warning of a repeat of the 2007-08 violence?
The reforms undertaken within the framework of the 2010 Constitution played a major part. These reforms put in place the institutions and legal frameworks to ensure clean elections. Chief among these is an independent judiciary with a leadership determined to defend the Constitution and meet the expectations of the public.
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| ISS Today |
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| Blaming militarisation for police brutality is aiming at the wrong target |
Police brutality is again in the spotlight in South Africa, but demilitarisation will fail to address the real causes.
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Will states agree on how to regulate the international weapons trade? |
As UN member states meet for a second time to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty, the challenge of reaching agreement on how best
to regulate the international weapons trade remains immense.
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| The threat of the `unholy trinity` |
Collaboration between al-Qaeda and African terrorist organisations like AQIM, Boko Haram and al-Shabaab has created a significant security threat on the continent.
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| Events |
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| Seminar on understanding and reducing crime in South Africa using spatial technologies, 28 March 2013 |
This seminar will provide an opportunity for two leading researchers in this field to show how emerging spatial technologies can contribute to creative and new ways of understanding and reducing crime in South Africa.
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| ISS 4th international conference: National and international perspectives on crime reduction and criminal justice, 21 and 22 August 2013 |
The conference provides an exciting opportunity to showcase current criminological and contiguous research as well as policy initiatives from across the world.
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| Publications |
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| Check your blind spot: confronting criminal spoilers in the Sahel |
The preoccupation with West Africa’s war on terror has meant that the destabilising impact of organised crime has been consistently underestimated, if not ignored altogether.
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Mali after the French military intervention:
new opportunities or back to square one? |
While the planning process for the deployment of the African-led international support mission to Mali (AFISMA) was laboriously under way, events followed in rapid succession when the armed groups occupying the northern part of the country seized the town of Konna on 10 January 2013.
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| Multimedia |
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| Culture of violence and police brutality in SA |
South Africa Insight: What are the possible solutions to police brutality and the perceived culture of violence in South Africa? Gareth Newham explains.
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