Event: Police Militarisation and the War on Crime in South Africa
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Date of Recording: 22/11/2018 Description: Join Guy Lamb, Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative (University of Cape Town), discusses his latest research on the globally pressing issue of police militarisation and the ‘war on crime’, drawing on the experiences of South Africa. Speaker bio: Guy Lamb is the Director of the Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI) at the University of Cape Town (UCT), a post he has held since October 2012. He also convenes postgraduate courses in the Departments of Political Studies and Public Law at UCT. Prior to this he was the Programme Head of the Arms Management Programme at the Institute for Security Studies and served on the UN Security Council Panel of Experts on Liberia. His most recent publications include “Police Militarization and the ‘War on Crime’ in South Africa”, Journal of Southern African Studies Vol. 44, No. 5, October 2018, and “Massacres and the Reform of the Police: South Africa Past and Present”, South African Crime Quarterly, 63, March 2018. ________________________________ For more news and information on upcoming events, please visit our website at kcl.ac.uk/warstudies
