ANC and South Africa's Negotiated Transition to Democracy and Peace
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2008
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Berghof Research Center for Constructive Conflict Management, Berlin, DE
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Political violence is a tool of both state and non-state actors, and replacing it by political
methods of conflict management is essential to making sustainable peace. The aim of the study is the relationship between political and military strategies and tactics: to learn how resistance movements (often simplistically bundled under the label of non-state armed groups) contribute to the transformation of conflict and to peacemaking. In the South African context, and more particularly in the case of the African National Congress (ANC), its allies, and Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK), there was always a political purpose guiding the turn to armed struggle.
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NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS, POLITICAL ASPECTS, APARTHEID, VIOLENCE, POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT, PEACE RESEARCH, SOUTH AFRICA, CONFLICT RESOLUTION