Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe: A Participatory Action Research Project

ISBN-13: 9783319668178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 266 str.

Dumisani Ngwenya

Opis

This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo.

Spis treści

1: Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi 

2: Background and History of Violence in Matebeleland 

3: Armed Conflict, Trauma and Peacebuilding 

4: Community Trauma Healing: Theory and Practice 

5: Participatory Action Research 

6: Evaluating the PAR Process 

7: Findings and Discussion 

8: Findings and Discussion 

9: Contentious Issues 

10: Summary, Conclusions and Reflections

Appendix A 

Bibliography 

On Durban University on Technology  

On Grace to Heal 

On the Author

Blurb

This book is based on  a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo. ZPRA was the primary target of  Gukurahundi, a pogrom by the Mugabe government which left an estimated 20 000 civilians dead and countless others tortured in the early 1980s in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe. It has been almost 30 years since the violence ended, but there has never been an official healing and reconciliation programme or truth commission into the atrocities. The government chose the path of amnesia by granting a blanket  amnesty to all involved. The regime has enforced a culture of silence over the event through repression and intimidation. The book is a culmination of a two year journey, by the group and the author, of an exploration of group-based self-healing approaches to the pain caused by the violence of Gukurahundi.