National Healing, Integration and Reconciliation in Zimbabwe

ISBN-13: 9780367342463 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 268 str.

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Opis

This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. It will be of interest to scholars of African Studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.

Spis treści

Author biographies Introduction: national healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe 1. The elusive search for national healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe 2. The social imaginary for healing and reconciliation 3. The significance of inclusivity: national healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe 4. The government of national unity and national healing in Zimbabwe 5. Tinkering with the commission: Zimbabwe’s use of commissions of inquiry as a transitional justice mechanism 6. Theorising reconciliation and national healing in Zimbabwe 7. Violence as a peace repellent: the politics of Zimbabwe and hate language during the “Old Dispensation”  8. The Shona proverbs as a resource for reconciliation 9. Sahwira and/as endogenous healing and therapy in Shona funerary rituals: insights for national healing 10. Theatre, grassroots civility, and healing/reconciliation: a critique of Heal the Wounds 11. Ngozi spirits and healing the nation at the grassroots 12. Media and healing in Zimbabwe: millstone or milestone? 13. Remembering and healing post-colonial violence: an analysis of Christopher Mlalazi’s Running with Mother 14. The beauty of forgiveness: lessons for Zimbabwe in conflict-transformation and peace-building from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus and Half of a Yellow Sun 15. The potential role of education in peacebuilding in Zimbabwe 16. “The Bruised and Troubled Nation”: Pentecostals, reconciliation, and development in Zimbabwe 17. Zimbabwean theology and religious studies promoting national healing and reconciliation: towards curriculum transformation 18. Trauma and healing among children on the streets in Zimbabwe 19. The environmental healing promises of a Zimbabwean traditional religio-mythical paradise Index