A Grass Root Governance Model: South African Peace Committees

V. Luker, S. Dinnen, & A. Patience (Eds). Law, order and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus (2006)

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Clifford Shearing

University of Cape Town; University of Montreal, School of Criminology; University of New South Wales; University of Toronto

John Cartwright

University of Cape Town (UCT) - Centre of Criminology

Madeleine Jenneker

University of the Western Cape

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

In the Introduction to this volume Luker and Dinnen draw attention to a model that has been developed in South Africa, and tested in Argentina, that has developed a simply and routinized set of institutional arrangements for bringing people together in deliberative forums to create “a better tomorrow” in response both to specific disputes and more general issues of community development. They also mention the work of Aral, Burris and Shearing who have argued for the applicability of this model in responding to sexually transmitted infections. The editors have asked us to set out briefly the nature of the model’s arrangements and the way in which they are being used in South Africa.

Suggested Citation

Shearing, Clifford D and Cartwright, John and Jenneker, Madeleine, A Grass Root Governance Model: South African Peace Committees (2006). V. Luker, S. Dinnen, & A. Patience (Eds). Law, order and HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea. Canberra: Pandanus (2006) , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2796289

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Madeleine Jenneker

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