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Title: A Nation without Guns?
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Story of Gun Free South Africa
Author: Adele Kirsten
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781869141356
ISBN: 9781869141356
Publisher: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Release Date: 24/06/2008
Description: After successfully negotiating the political transition in South Africa, one of the greatest challenges facing the new democracy was the proliferation of firearms and the high levels of violent crime associated with this. Gun deaths and injuries rocketed out of control.Adele Kirsten tells the remarkable story of how Gun Free South Africa, a small NGO with few resources, mobilised to reduce the number of guns in circulation. Through innovative campaigning and media strategies it quickly became a household name, and the scourge of the pro-gun lobby. But the book tells us more than this. It highlights the value of involving ordinary people in a process that resulted, not only in a new law, but deeply influenced the thinking of many democrats in search of genuine solutions to a post-conflict society. This book will appeal to activists, democrats, and all those involved in policy making and social change, as well as scholars of these processes.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: ZA
Release Year: 2008

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