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1 online resource (367 pages) |
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Violence, peace and everyday modes of justice and healing : whither post-colonial Africa? An Introduction / Ngonidzashe Marongwe; Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri & Munyaradzi Mawere -- part I. The scourge of violence in post-colonial Africa. The Zimbabwean democratization paradox : popular protests, violence, and state responses, 2013-2016 / David Tobias and Jacob Tagarirofa -- Violent house demolitions in Harare, Zimbabwe, 2014-2016 : a violation of people's rights / Nancy Mazuru -- Female rapists and sperm harvesting : narratives of violence and occultism in post-colonial Zimbabwe / Ngonidzashe Marongwe, David Tobias & Tinashe Mawere -- Unearthing the gender and religious conflict conundrum : the curse of Africa / Jacob Tagarirofa -- Ritual murder during the new millennium : an analysis of the triggers and impacts of ritual killings in Zimbabwe / Nancy Mazuru -- Victims of FRELIMO and RENAMO brutality : the Ndau people of Mossurize District of Mozambique, 1978-2017 / James Hlongwana -- Social media, infidelity and domestic violence in 21st century Zimbabwe / Nancy Mazuru -- part II. In Pursuit of peace through everyday modes of justice and healing. Political violence and "common sense" justice : kuripa ngozi as a transitional justice mechanism among the Shona people in Zimbabwe's rural areas / Ngonidzashe Marongwe -- Appeasing the dead and cleansing the living : the pursuit of peace in the aftermath of political violence in 21st century Zimbabwe / Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri -- Healing Zimbabwe : impact of the Catholic Church's response to political violence on people at grassroots level / Conrad Chibango -- Vanishing traditions? Girl children as sacrificial lambs in the context of Shona indigenous transitional justice mechanisms in 21st century Zimbabwe / Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri -- Cultural interpersonal communication and naming : the case of peri-urban Beitbridge in Zimbabwe / Prosper Hellen Tlou -- The moral significance of the Dare system in seeking justice and peace among the Shona people of Zimbabwe / Erasmus Masitera -- Indigenous and Christian forms of national healing : a case for the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe / Tobias Marevesa -- Conflict, justice and peace from an African indigenous cultural perspective : the case of the Vatsonga people of Mozambique, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe / Steyn Khesani Madlome & Osborne Risimati Chauke -- The prospects of peace, healing and justice in 21st century Africa : concluding remarks / Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri, Ngonidzashe Marongwe & Munyaradzi Mawere. |
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Violence in its various proportions, genres and manifestations has had an enduring historical legacy the world over. However, works speaking to approaches aimed at mitigating violence characteristic of Africa are very limited. As some scholars have noted, Africans have experienced cycles of violence since the pre-colonial epoch, such that overt violence has become banalised on the African continent. This has had the effect of generating complex results, legacies and perennial emotional wounds that call for healing, reconciliation, justice and positive peace. Yet, in the absence of systematic and critical approaches to the study of violence on the continent, discourses on violence would hardly challenge the global matrices of violence that threaten peace and development in Africa. This volume is a contribution in the direction of such urgently needed systematic and critical approaches. It interrogates, from different angles and with inspiration from a multidisciplinary perspective, the contentious production and resilience of violence in Africa. It calls for a paradigm shift -- an alternative approach that forges and merges African customary dispute resolution and Western systems of dispute resolution -- towards a framework of positive peace, holistic restoration, sustainable development and equity. The book is a welcome contribution to students and practitioners in security studies, African studies, development studies, global studies, policy studies, and political science. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Postcolonialism -- Africa.
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Postcolonialism. |
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Africa. |
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Electronic books.
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Marongwe, Ngonidzashe.
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Duri, Fidelis P. T.
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Mawere, Munyaradzi.
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Print version: Violence, peace and everyday modes of justice and healing in post-colonial Africa. Mankon, Barmenda : Langaa Research & Publishing CIG, 2019 9956550426 9789956550425 (OCoLC)1086677388 |
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9789956550326 (electronic book) |
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9956550329 (electronic book) |
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9789956550425 |
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9956550426 |
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