Justice needs (Crime, Conflict & RJ)

Defining conflict Conflicts are normal and unavoidable, and they are everywhere. You turn on the television, and you hear about a conflict irrupting, a conflict coming to an end, or, in most cases, a conflict reoccurring. There are many ways to categorize armed conflicts, and those include International armed conflict, internal armed conflict, non-state conflict, communal conflict, electoral conflict. Today, most of the battles are internal conflicts, while the number of international wars has decreased drastically in recent years. Violent conflicts usually have a negative connotation and are probably one of the most studied concepts in social sciences. As a result, we find that there is no agreed-upon definition, the reason being that one can find "conflict" researchers in a lot of disciplines such as politics, psychology, anthropology, theology, economics, sociology, and philosophy. However, the concept in a general sense is defined as "a serious disagreem...

TRC in South Africa We live in a violent world. South Africa is one of the countries that had to deal with a prolonged period of violence and oppression. The South African black people were denied of their fundamental human right. Resistance to the laws of apartheid was managed with police brutality. The racial tension created inestimable, endless wounds in the lives of the people. When transitioning into democracy, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was set up, which invited perpetrators to talk about their transgression and victims were given a platform to tell their stories and express their feelings. The TRC in South Africa (SA) is well known to have been successful in putting the past to rest, but questions are still lingering on whether it brought justice to victims. South Africa is one of the countries that is generally regarded to have been successful in democratic transition. Its democratic transition is "widely acclaimed as one of the most successful t...