Safeguarding Democracy
SAFEGUARDING DEMOCRACY Swiss-South African Joint Research Programme.
"The principal research question posed by this project is how to understand, through the use of interdisciplinary methodologies, the main challenges to democracy in South Africa and Switzerland. The overall theme of the project turns around the conditions that promote or undermine democratic practice and institutions. The objective of the study is to provide an analysis that goes beyond conventional understandings of the consolidation of democracy. Democracy is not merely an outcome of a long process of historical struggle but should be viewed as a process that is constantly challenged by memory and heritage in different locales and at different times. Thus, democracy manifests, is understood and is produced in different ways at local, regional and national levels." [1]
People
Accessed November 2014: [2]
- Sheila Meintjes
- Patrick Harries
- Philip Bonner
- Cynthia Kros
- Sekiba Peter Lekgoathi
- Noor Nieftagodien
- Ursula Scheidegger
PhD Students
- Glenda Daniels (phd completed)
- Eddy Mazembo Mavungu (phd completed)
- Rita Kesselring (phd student)
- Anna Voegeli (phd student)
- Mbuyiseni Ndlozi (phd student)
Exchange Students
- Sarah Godsell (exchange student 2011)
- Christopher Wood (exchange student 2011)
- Dineo Skosana (exchange student 2010)
