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The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing
and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and
suggesting how they can be enhanced. The main contribution of the
book is an ethnographic investigation of how post-conflict
communities in parts of Southern Africa use their local resources
to forge a future after mass violence. The way in which Namibia’s
Herero and Zimbabwe’s Ndebele dealt with their respective
genocides is be a major contribution of the book. The focus of the
book is on two Southern African countries that never experienced
institutionalized transitional justice as dispensed in
post-apartheid South Africa via the famed Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. We answer the question: how have communities healed and
reconciled after the end of protracted violence and gross human
rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Namibia? We depart from statetist,
top-down, one-size fits all approaches to transitional justice and
investigate bottom-up approaches.
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The Fifinella Log (Paperback)
Yachtmaster (Ocean) Tom Tom Edwards
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R1,440
R1,254
Discovery Miles 12 540
Save R186 (13%)
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Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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The book investigates the use of bottom-up, community based healing
and peacebuilding approaches, focusing on their strengths and
suggesting how they can be enhanced. The main contribution of the
book is an ethnographic investigation of how post-conflict
communities in parts of Southern Africa use their local resources
to forge a future after mass violence. The way in which Namibia's
Herero and Zimbabwe's Ndebele dealt with their respective genocides
is a major contribution of the book. The focus of the book is on
two Southern African countries that never experienced
institutionalized transitional justice as dispensed in
post-apartheid South Africa via the famed Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. We answer the question: how have communities healed and
reconciled after the end of protracted violence and gross human
rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Namibia? We depart from statetist,
top-down, one-size fits all approaches to transitional justice and
investigate bottom-up approaches.
The book exposes various mechanisms and methods by which covert
colonial mechanisms are employed to perpetuate colonialism,
especially in Africa. Less overt and more covert perpetuation of
colonialism is done through the use of networks. The main
achievement of the initial phase of colonialism was the
establishment of networks that are nefarious and omnipresent;
constituting "distributed presence," which allows for "action at a
distance." As a result, colonial subjects became willing
participants in these processes, unbeknownst to them, which
perpetuated their own colonialism. The book exposes forms of
colonialism where manufactured consent is used to perpetuate
colonialism. Trapped in this capitalist, Western, Christian
language and moral world order without sovereignty, African
countries continuously sink deeper into the colonial quagmire.
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