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Abstract / Summary

In December 1991, after more than 300 years of conflict, representatives of all South Africa’s racial groups began negotiating a peaceful transition to a nonracial democracy. The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) set out to develop basic principles for a non-racial political system, and an interim constitution to govern South Africa until an election could be held for a constituent assembly empowered to write a permanent constitution. This case study introduces students to the diversity and complexity of political views in South Africa, and efforts to lessen the violence that plagued the country. It also asks whether the primary purpose of such international peacekeeping is to end political violence, or to resolve political conflicts that generate violence.

Field of Interest

Global Issues

Author

Daniel R. Kempton, fl. 2005

Publisher

The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Copyright Message

Copyright © 1994 The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Content Type

Case study

Warning: Contains explicit content

No

Format

Text

Page Count

20

Publication Year

1994

Publisher

Georgetown University. School of Foreign Service. Institute for the Study of Diplomacy

Place Published / Released

District of Columbia

Series Number

Case 195

Subject

Global Issues, Social Sciences, Individual and Groups Rights, South African Apartheid (1948-1994), Peacekeeping, Segregation, Democracy, Political violence, Apartheid, South Africa, 1948-1994, Politics & Policy, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Sudáfrica, África do Sul, South Africa, South Africans, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)

Series / Program

Institute for the Study of Diplomacy Case Study Program

Keywords and Translated Subjects

Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Sudáfrica, África do Sul