Tahirih Matthee, Kevin Thomson and Tareneh Afnan-Holmes, PhD candidates, each presented a paper at the Safety and Violence Initiative Conference in Cape Town on the 7-8 November, 2019. The three presentations are:

Tahirih Matthee: “The development of strategies, skills and attitudes in addressing violence at a Cape Flats school”.

Kevin Thomson: presented at paper on his study in a school. The aim was to empower youth to make constructive choices in their lives. The title is “conflict transformation education: a strategy to educate against stigmatisation and violence in a primary school”.

Taraneh Afnan-Holmes: Taraneh’s paper is titled “A values-based, integrated assets approach to adaptive peacebuilding, Masiphumelele, Cape Town”.