{"title":"The 7th World conference in injury prevention and safety promotion: a report from Vienna","authors":"B. Bowman","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31613","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76131807","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The primary aim of this article is to explore some of the patterns of political violence that characterised the apartheid and post-apartheid periods in South African history, as well as the attempts to deal with the sequelae of these patterns of violence. Secondly, the article endeavours to illustrate how the statistics that we are wont to rely on in making sense of political violence, frequently only present a partial glimpse of and in the process lead to misrepresentations of the phenomenon. Thirdly, the article attempts to examine two of the key interventions initiated by the post-apartheid government to deal with the violence in South Africa's past and present, namely the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission and the Reconstruction and Development Programme. The article concludes with the observation that, despite their many merits, interventions such as these could not be adequate to deal with past and extant patterns of political violence.
{"title":"Understanding collect violence in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa","authors":"N. Duncan","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V3I1.31620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V3I1.31620","url":null,"abstract":"The primary aim of this article is to explore some of the patterns of political violence that characterised the apartheid and post-apartheid periods in South African history, as well as the attempts to deal with the sequelae of these patterns of violence. Secondly, the article endeavours to illustrate how the statistics that we are wont to rely on in making sense of political violence, frequently only present a partial glimpse of and in the process lead to misrepresentations of the phenomenon. Thirdly, the article attempts to examine two of the key interventions initiated by the post-apartheid government to deal with the violence in South Africa's past and present, namely the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission and the Reconstruction and Development Programme. The article concludes with the observation that, despite their many merits, interventions such as these could not be adequate to deal with past and extant patterns of political violence.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"20 1","pages":"5-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81813151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Extracted from text ... Vulnerability, resilience and coping of communities and health systems in responding to infectious diseases in the context of war/conflict: Kandy, Sri Lanka S. Bulbulia and F. Alvarez-Castillo ..
{"title":"Vulnerability, resilience and coping of communities and health systems in responding to infectious diseases in the context of war/conflict: Kandy, Sri Lanka : short communication","authors":"S. Bulbulia, F. Alvarez-Castillo","doi":"10.4314/asp.v2i2.31615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/asp.v2i2.31615","url":null,"abstract":"Extracted from text ... Vulnerability, resilience and coping of communities and health systems in responding \u0000to infectious diseases in the context of war/conflict: Kandy, Sri Lanka \u0000S. Bulbulia and F. Alvarez-Castillo \u0000..","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"1 1","pages":"73-75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89635934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"University of South Africa's Department of Communication Sciences Annual Postgraduate Winter School, Pretoria, South Africa","authors":"L. Baadjies, S. D. Freitas, S. MacKenzie","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31616","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83637247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On the one hand, South Africa is the most religious country in the world. On the other, it is also the country where HIV is spreading the fastest, and which has the highest rape rate, and the highest occurrence of domestic violence. this article explores the faces of corporal religious discourses that render believers vulnerable to abuse. It furthermore describes how these discourses can be deconstructed to help the religious discourses that in power believers against abuse and enhance their physical and emotional safety. The insights of Body Theology play an important role in describing this shift in religious discourse. The research population was 270 patients who had been subjected to abuse and were referred for counseling to Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Tswane, where the author works as a part-time counsellor. The population testifies to the possibility of exploring the dialogical spaces between harmful religious discourse that leads to injury on one hand, and religious discourses that offer safety only in self-sacrifice, and in the life thereafter on the other hand. Because of a specific tomography, the research population was almost exclusively Christian, and therefore the religious discourses described in this article draw, from necessity, on Christian resources only. In its final analysis, the article focuses on reconstructed religious discourses of safety, which were constructed through the insights of the Body Theology in dialogue with the experiences of the research population. Body Theology of knowledge is that a person has at least four bodies, thus religious discourses of safety explore the physical body as a site of resistance; the symbolic body as a site of a relationship; the political body is a site for sharing energy and not for exercising power; and a spiritual body as a site of recreation.
{"title":"Religion as a means of preventing injury and promoting safety: Christian discourses on embodiment as safety discourses","authors":"C. Landman","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V5I2.31639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V5I2.31639","url":null,"abstract":"On the one hand, South Africa is the most religious country in the world. On the other, it is also the country where HIV is spreading the fastest, and which has the highest rape rate, and the highest occurrence of domestic violence. this article explores the faces of corporal religious discourses that render believers vulnerable to abuse. It furthermore describes how these discourses can be deconstructed to help the religious discourses that in power believers against abuse and enhance their physical and emotional safety. The insights of Body Theology play an important role in describing this shift in religious discourse. The research population was 270 patients who had been subjected to abuse and were referred for counseling to Kalafong Hospital in Atteridgeville, Tswane, where the author works as a part-time counsellor. The population testifies to the possibility of exploring the dialogical spaces between harmful religious discourse that leads to injury on one hand, and religious discourses that offer safety only in self-sacrifice, and in the life thereafter on the other hand. Because of a specific tomography, the research population was almost exclusively Christian, and therefore the religious discourses described in this article draw, from necessity, on Christian resources only. In its final analysis, the article focuses on reconstructed religious discourses of safety, which were constructed through the insights of the Body Theology in dialogue with the experiences of the research population. Body Theology of knowledge is that a person has at least four bodies, thus religious discourses of safety explore the physical body as a site of resistance; the symbolic body as a site of a relationship; the political body is a site for sharing energy and not for exercising power; and a spiritual body as a site of recreation.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"2 1","pages":"17-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75846190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Many juvenile offenders in prisons have been exposed to trauma before their imprisonment. Trauma exposure amongst South African juvenile offenders is often linked to their criminal behaviour, but despite the high rates of trauma exposure among juvenile offenders, current South African prisons lack effective trauma counselling services. This article describes the process of facilitating group therapy with 30 juvenile offenders at the Johannesburg prison. The participants in these groups were 15 male and 15 female juvenile offenders. The therapy groups included 20 sessions on trauma education (what is trauma and its symptoms, the relationship between trauma and crime, and coping skills). The themes that emerged in the groups included experiences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as witnessing family violence, absent father figures, and being involved in gang violence in and out of prison. In conclusion, the article highlights the need to provide effective trauma counselling services in helping juvenile offenders to resolve their personal traumas before leaving prison. The problem of recidivism is linked to unresolved traumas due to lack of effective rehabilitation programmes in many South African prisons.
{"title":"Working with juvenile offenders: An evaluation of trauma group intervention","authors":"M. Langa","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V5I2.31643","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V5I2.31643","url":null,"abstract":"Many juvenile offenders in prisons have been exposed to trauma before their imprisonment. Trauma exposure amongst South African juvenile offenders is often linked to their criminal behaviour, but despite the high rates of trauma exposure among juvenile offenders, current South African prisons lack effective trauma counselling services. This article describes the process of facilitating group therapy with 30 juvenile offenders at the Johannesburg prison. The participants in these groups were 15 male and 15 female juvenile offenders. The therapy groups included 20 sessions on trauma education (what is trauma and its symptoms, the relationship between trauma and crime, and coping skills). The themes that emerged in the groups included experiences of physical, emotional and sexual abuse, as well as witnessing family violence, absent father figures, and being involved in gang violence in and out of prison. In conclusion, the article highlights the need to provide effective trauma counselling services in helping juvenile offenders to resolve their personal traumas before leaving prison. The problem of recidivism is linked to unresolved traumas due to lack of effective rehabilitation programmes in many South African prisons.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"30 1","pages":"63-82"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89478048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Domestic energy use, time activity patterns, and risk of burns amongst children less than five years of age in rural South Africa","authors":"B. Barnes, Kebitsamang Moiloa","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31608","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"7 1","pages":"28-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79964719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Injury control and traffic safety training course: Johannesburg, South Africa","authors":"L. Baadjies, S. D. Freitas, S. MacKenzie","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V2I2.31619","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"12 16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89946048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Registry data on costs of injuries due to violence in low-income countries seldom cover the total burden imposed on the victim's family. An extended model was therefore developed, encompassing both socio-economic data and family characteristics. The model comprises 32 cost elements in four main categories : injury, death, deprivation and other costs. The main cost elements were income adjusted by family and years; income impact on the family; costs of physical, psychosocial and family deprivations, and cardinal approach of productivity loss. As a result of the five case studies performed in India, the supplementary variables contributed to a better understanding of the total burden on families. This adapted model could help to increase both validity and equality in household surveys. However, ethical issues related to the data collection procedure need to be considered and more empirical contributions from low-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are warranted.
{"title":"Cost calculation and economic analysis of violence in low-income country : a model for India","authors":"K. Dalal, B. Janson","doi":"10.4314/ASP.V5I1.31633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4314/ASP.V5I1.31633","url":null,"abstract":"Registry data on costs of injuries due to violence in low-income countries seldom cover the total burden imposed on the victim's family. An extended model was therefore developed, encompassing both socio-economic data and family characteristics. The model comprises 32 cost elements in four main categories : injury, death, deprivation and other costs. The main cost elements were income adjusted by family and years; income impact on the family; costs of physical, psychosocial and family deprivations, and cardinal approach of productivity loss. As a result of the five case studies performed in India, the supplementary variables contributed to a better understanding of the total burden on families. This adapted model could help to increase both validity and equality in household surveys. However, ethical issues related to the data collection procedure need to be considered and more empirical contributions from low-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America are warranted.","PeriodicalId":41085,"journal":{"name":"African Safety Promotion","volume":"15 1","pages":"45-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2008-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91294136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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