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Safety and Violence
Initiative
activities included a
colloquium on understanding
and preventing violence
in Africa, organised in
partnership with the Cape
Higher Education Consortium
and the Western Cape
government; five socially
responsive workshops and
seminars, organised in
collaboration with multiple
stakeholders; and a number
of public lectures on
violence prevention,
given by internationally
renowned scholars.
Positive progress
The Safety and Violence
Initiative (SaVI) showed
positive progress in terms
of new research initiatives,
particularly those to do with
ex-combatants and violence
reduction, organised nonstate violence, violence
against women and children,
attitudes to sexual violence,
the nature of youth gang
violence, and the relationship
between substance abuse
and violence. Research
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