Curriculum vitae ian Liebenberg personal details present Position

Part time Lecturer: Masters and Honours Modules

University of Pretoria
Post graduate teaching: 1. Presenting Policy Studies to MA students including setting tests, examinations, marking assignments and providing study guidance, Department of Political Studies. 2. Presenting Hons modules on South African politics.
2000	Started All Africa Consultants cc	Pretoria
Consultancy and report writing: 1. Two projects on contract for the African Centre for the Constructive Resolution of Conflict (ACCORD) 2. Coordinated and completed research project on demobilized military staff and their reinsertion into civilian and economic life in South Africa. Managed and oversaw research team and field workers for the project. Principal: Institute for Security Studies (ISS). Funder: European Union. Outcomes: 1 x report and 1 x publication entitled Demobilisation and its aftermath (Volume 2): Economic reinsertion of South Africa’s demobilized military personnel. ISS Monograph Series, No. 61, August 2001. (Co-authored with M. Roefs). Pretoria: Institute for Security Studies. 3. Completed contract research on National Symbols for DACST Lecturing: Lectured at Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg – UJ) for second year students in Political Science. (one module, responsible for all tasks) * Reports available on request
1991 to 1999	Senior Researcher/Political Analyst	Human Sciences Research Council
Research: Main responsibilities: Research in the Unit for Political Studies (later to become the Centre for Constitutional Analysis) at the HSRC. Contributed to various reports and acted as co-editor of three books. In the Group Democracy and Governance acted as project leader for social identities research and involved with the Policy Analysis Program directing projects on public participation in South Africa for the HSRC and produced together with Gregory Houston of the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) a book on the topic. Involvement with surveys/interpretation of data (Report writing): Assisted with the HSRC Annual Survey (Omnibus). Community Engagement: 1. Assisted the Independent Complaints Directorate (ICD) with research on a report related to deaths in police custody. (Interim/draft report – August 1998). Co-author: David Bruce, CSVR, Johannesburg. 2. Undertook a study for the HSRC regarding public participation for the Khululekani Institute for Democracy (KID). Report delivered in June 1999. Copy available on request. Further deliverables: Articles and chapter to books. 3. Involvement as civilian representative/civil society member in the Defence Review Process (DRP) and the Stockholm Peace Research Institute’s (SIPRI) project on arms procurement and civilian oversight over procurement processes in democracies. Academic citizenship: Initiator and co-editor of a HSRC quarterly publication on socio-political issues, South Africa in the 90s. Community Engagement: 1. Research project on commercial sex work and HIV/Aids. Planned and executed together with Dr Willem Schurink. Report for Department of Health completed in June/July 1993. 2. Contributed to the HSRC Youth Report with responsibility for sub-divisions. 3. Contributed to a report on “The Protection of Religious, Linguistic and Cultural Communities” [Section 185 of the New Constitution, Act 108 of 1997] prepared on request of the Department of Constitutional Development by the Human Sciences Research Council.
1993, 1996, 2004	Part-time lecturer in Political Studies	Rand Afrikaans University (University of Johannesburg)
Main responsibilities: Lecturing for second years (one module per semester).
1990	Director of Research and Research Consultant, Head Office	Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA)
Main responsibilities: Co-ordinate workshops, oversee research projects, draft annual budgets and annual reports for the research unit. Conference/Workshop organisation/Community engagement: 1. Acted as co-ordinator for a rural land workshop presented by IDASA, March 9-11. Deliverable/Outcome: An edited reader: A harvest of discontent: Land Reform in South Africa (1991) by Michael de Klerk (UCT), IDASA, Mowbray. 2. Responsible for regular contributions to IDASA’s bulletin Democracy in Action (articles, reports on workshops and book reviews). 3. Co-ordinated workshops related to the ANC’s Constitutional Guidelines in Western Cape, Eastern Cape and Natal, wrote and managed publication of the workshop proceedings. 4. Co-organized a national student conference for progressive ‘white’ Afrikaans organizations to discuss the role of Afrikaans speaking students in the process of liberation and democratisation. Attended by students form UP, UPE, US, PU for CHE, RAU and University of the Orange Free State (Bloemfontein).
Date: From – To	Job Title	Employer/institution
1988-1989	Consultant/Researcher, Head Office	Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA)
Responsibilities: Research: 1. Acting in a research and advisory capacity. 2. Initiated the first national study in South Africa on political attitudes of white South African students at tertiary institutions, managed the project team, administered questionnaires and publication of the report. [Published by IDASA, as Worlds of Difference, 1990]. Previous studies were limited to specific universities such as SU and RAU. Community engagement: Organized a series of public lectures for IDASA on “Understanding conflict in South Africa”. Speakers included academics and practitioners from UWC, University of Stellenbosch and UCT and conflict resolution experts.
1987	Regional coordinator	Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA), Western Cape Region
Responsibilities: Acting in a research and advisory capacity. Also responsible as student coordinator for Stellenbosch. The latter more an activist than research position. Conference organisation: Initiate and organize a national student conference for the Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA) in Stellenbosch where members of youth organizations like SANSKO, PESCO, PEYCO, NUSAS, SAAK and various others were brought together. The purpose to look at obstacles on the road to democracy and strategies to attain a non-racial democracy. Took part in the Dakar Conference arranged by IDASA, a meeting between South Africans and the exiled ANC (widely published; contributed articles to newspapers on the event). Public debate: 1. Several contributions on South African politics to local and national media, i.e. Cape Times, Argus, Rapport, Burger, South, Akal. 2. Interviews with national media.

MEMBERSHIP OF ASSOCIATIONS

International Sociological Association (ISA)

South African Sociological Association (SASA)

Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA)

South African Association for Political Studies (SAAPS)

Historical Association of South Africa (HASA)

1 Journals accredited by the South African Department of Higher Education for subsidy purposes.

2 Contributions to bulletins and newsletters between 1987 and 1999 per se excluded. Examples are Democracy in Action: Monthly Newsletter of IDASA, Mowbray, Intergroup: Newsletter on Conflict and Peace in South Africa (Centre for Intergroup Studies), Rondebosch and HSRC Centre for Constitutional Analysis Communiques, Pretoria.

3 I delivered my first paper at a national conference (Association of Sociology in South Africa, ASSA, Conflict and Peace Studies group or CAPS ) circa 1985 and thereafter regularly at conferences of the political science association and others.

4 First paper delivered at a workshop of the Centre for Intergroup Studies in 1985, UCT, Rondebosch. Numerous papers and talks were delivered between 1985 and 1999, i.e. at Nusas workshops, Socratic Society (Stellenbosch University), the National Defence College and SA Army College. During 1996 and 1998 I delivered lectures on invitation in The Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and Cuba and before 2000 in Zimbabwe among others. I cannot hope to recall them all.

5 During my tenure at the HSRC (1991 – 1999) and as consultant (1999-2001) I contributed as team member to various reports. I did not keep track of them all.

6 Only book reviews in academic journals listed (as far as I could trace them). The list excludes book reviews for Democracy in Action (1988-1990), Vrye Weekblad, Rapport and literary journals such as New Contrast, Penseel, SA Tydskrif vir Letterkunde.

7 For more detail kindly see summary of PROFESSIONAL CAREER, pp. 17ff.