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SENIOR COMMUNICATIONS OFFICER
The IJR is a renowned non-profit think tank based in South Africa, dedicated to advancing peacebuilding efforts across the African continent. Our work towards this end centers around three core focal areas: research and policy, peacebuilding interventions, and the promotion of dialogue between and within communities. We are seeking a seasoned Senior Communications Officer to join our Cape Town [...]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE: 8 MAR 2024
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY MESSAGE: 8 MAR 2024 Prof Cheryl Hendricks Dear Colleagues, Today we celebrate International Women's Day, whose theme this year is “Inspire Inclusion.” This day brings to the fore the need for continued efforts towards ensuring that the remarkable strides we have made towards gender equality and inclusivity, in this nation and on our continent, are not [...]
Call for Proposals
Request for proposals: 2024 South Africa Pre- and Post-Elections Panel Survey 6 March 2024 Introduction The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) is an independent, non-governmental organisation established in 2000 in the wake of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), with the aim of ensuring that the lessons of South Africa’s successful transition to democracy remain fundamental principles central [...]
Senior Project Leader: Regional Peacebuilding
Senior Project Leader: Regional Peacebuilding. Based in Cape Town, South Africa The Senior Project Leader for Regional Peacebuilding will be tasked with innovating, designing and implementing peacebuilding initiatives in line with the IJR’s Strategy for 2022-2025. The dynamic individual will be an accomplished researcher, practitioner and analyst, with a track-record of governmental, inter-governmental and civil society engagement. Following on [...]
IJR Internship: Peacebuilding Interventions Programme
IJR Internship: Peacebuilding Interventions Programme The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) Peacebuilding Interventions (PBI) Programme invites applications for internship to take up employment from March to December 2024 from candidates who are post-graduates, and have a passion to promote fair, democratic and inclusive societies in Africa. Candidates will be seeking to develop their peacebuilding, transitional justice, research and [...]
Tender Notice & Brief: IJR 2023 Annual Report design, layout, proofreading, and printing
IJR 2023 Annual Report Tender Notice & Brief for design, layout, proofreading, and printing The Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, a non-profit organisation based in Cape Town, South Africa is looking for a service provider to propose an innovative layout and design for its 2023 annual report. The report must capture the IJR brand, accomplishments and stories from the [...]
World Court Survives the Judicial Stress Test
The United Nations’ International Court of Justice (ICJ) passed the judicial stress test when it issued a ruling on the South Africa’s Application for Provisional Measures against Israel’s military action in Gaza on 26th January 2024, against intense geopolitical pressure from western countries.
Apartheid as a form of genocide: Reflections on South Africa v Israel
On 12 December 2023, Mathu Joyini, South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, told the 10th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly, that the large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza, following the 7 October attacks, had ‘illustrated that Israel is acting contrary to its obligations in terms of the Genocide Convention’.
Sustained Dialogues Visits New Communities
The past months have seen the programme visit three communities where we have not previously been: Middleburg, Montagu and Port Alfred. Their picturesque surroundings belie the problems experienced by residents. In all of the communities, poverty and unemployment loom large over the lives of residents.
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Latest Publications
IJR Policy Brief 31: Central African Republic: Post-electoral crisis and the prospects for reconciliation
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