scholarly journals RGN-Verslag oor godsdiens, tussengroepverhoudinge en maatskaplike verandering in Suid-Afrika

1986 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Van der Merwe
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Group Perceptions ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Group Interests

The HSRC Report on religion, intergroup relations and social change in South Africa This article deals with the HSRC Report Religion, intergroup relations and social change in South Africa of 1985. The report is found to be well researched. A basic statement thereof is that religion functions in an ambivalent manner: It may transcend group interests for the sake of broader or national interests and thus facilitate reconciliation or it may become a captive of group interests and by legitimising group perceptions and claims, contribute to intergroup tension. Despite the Committee's claim to a scientific approach to religion, the report displays a natural theological aspect.

Religion, Intergroup Relations, and Social Change in South Africa

1989 ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
R. L. Watson ◽  
G. C. Oosthuizen ◽  
J. K. Coetzee ◽  
J. W. de Gruchy ◽  
J. H. Hofmeyr ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Intergroup Relations

scholarly journals Peace parks in Southern Africa: bringers of an African Renaissance?

2005 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marloes van Amerom ◽  
Bram Büscher
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
Utmost Care ◽  
Peace Parks

The pursuit of an African Renaissance has become an important aspect of regional cooperation between South Africa and its neighbours. Transfrontier conservation areas, or ‘Peace Parks’ as they are popularly called, have been identified as key instruments to promote the African Renaissance dream, and are increasingly advocated and justified on this basis. By fostering joint conservation (and tourism) development in Southern Africa's marginalised border regions, Peace Parks are claimed to further international peace, regional cooperation and poverty reduction, and thus serve basic ideals of the African Renaissance. This article critically explores this assumption. Using the joint South African-Mozambican-Zimbabwean Great Limpopo Park as a case study, it argues that in reality the creation of Peace Parks hardly stimulates and possibly even undermines the realisation of the African Renaissance ideals of regional cooperation, emancipation, cultural reaffirmation, sustainable economic development and democratisation. So far, their achievement has been severely hindered by domination of national interests, insufficient community consultation, and sensitive border issues such as the illegal flows of goods and migrants between South Africa and neighbouring countries. Furthermore, exacerbation of inter-state differences induced by power imbalances in the region, and harmonisation of land use and legal systems across boundaries, are increasingly becoming sources of conflict and controversy. Some of these problems are so severe, we conclude, that they might eventually even undermine support for African Renaissance as a whole. Utmost care is thus required to optimally use the chances that Peace Parks do offer in furthering an African Renaissance.

Context-dependent variation in social stereotyping 1: The effects of intergroup relations as mediated by social change and frame of reference

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Alexander Haslam ◽  
John C. Turner ◽  
Penelope J. Oakes ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Brett K. Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Intergroup Relations ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Context Dependent
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