Mark Jansen

jansen@tolerance-net.org

Mark Jansen is a Community Safety programme manager at UMAC. After graduating from high school he went to study journalism. He comes from a strong actvism background having been in the forefront of student and youth movements and politics during the apartheid era in South Africa.

He worked as a journalist for the South African Broadcast Corperation and for a community newspaper which he was part of the group that established it, before he went to work for UMAC as a confllict resolution practitioner. He has mediated a number of violent conflicts in the Western Cape, especially within the taxi industry. He has been instrumental in mobilising election monitors and was on several occassions seconded to the Independant Electoral Commission as a Conflict Analyst and Conflic Resolution Programme manager. He was also commissioned to do a national study on the potential violent threats to the second democratic eelctions in 1999.

He is currently involved on a rural commnunity safety programme and facilitae training workshops on conflict management and issues of democracy. And is pursuing part time studies in law at the University of the Western Cape.