Building an Inclusive Society Programme
The various components of the Building an Inclusive Society Programme (BIS) work together to acknowledge and confront enduring legacies of injustice and marginalisation in post-colonial and post-apartheid in South Africa. This acknowledgement gives way to various project initiatives that seek out ways to foster meaningful reconciliation and reconstruction within communities in South Africa. The programme is grounded in the belief that reconciliation necessarily entails reconstruction and transformation and vice versa. ‘Cheap’ or ‘easy’ reconciliation or reconstruction is not an option. >>
Justice and Reconciliation in Africa Programme
The Justice and Reconciliation in Africa Programme (JR) team has worked to develop and implement initiatives that contribute to the building of fair, democratic, and inclusive societies in Africa. Institute-wide strategic planning sessions during the course of 2009 highlighted opportunities for increased consultation and collaboration with the Institute's BIS Programme and its PA Programme. This has given rise to collaborative work in Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and South Sudan. >>
Policy and Analysis
The Policy and Analysis (PA) Programme informs the IJR´s fledging involvement in grassroots community engagements as well as its tentative forays into policy forums. Even though related data and research were at the Institute´s disposal during these first years, very few resources honed in squarely on the IJR´s focal areas of inquiry, namely the country´s progress (or otherwise) in its quest for justice and reconciliation, and the extent to which it has been able to push back the boundaries of poverty, inequality, and socio-economic justice. >>
Building an Inclusive Society Programme
The foundation of the Building an Inclusive Society Programme (BIS) is built on the belief that reconciliation and social development is inherently linked. Consequently, education, dialogue, memory and history became the pillars for community-based reconciliation interventions in communities such as Cradock and Gungwane in the Eastern Cape and Khayelitsha, Langa, Bonteheuwel, Hout Bay and Paarl in the Western Cape. >>
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