ABSTRACT

This book brings together scholars from diverse backgrounds to provide interdisciplinary perspectives on national healing, integration, and reconciliation in Zimbabwe. Taking into account the complex nature of healing across moral, political, economic, cultural, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of communities and the nation, the chapters discuss approaches, disparities, tensions, and solutions to healing and reconciliation within a multidisciplinary framework. Arguing that Zimbabwe’s development agenda is severely compromised by the dominance of violence and militancy, the contributors analyse the challenges, possibilities and opportunities for national healing. This book will be of interest to scholars of African studies, conflict and reconciliation, and development studies.

chapter |13 pages

Introduction

National healing, integration and reconciliation in Zimbabwe

chapter 3|15 pages

The significance of inclusivity

National healing and reconciliation in Zimbabwe

chapter 5|14 pages

Tinkering with the commission

Zimbabwe's use of commissions of inquiry as a transitional justice mechanism 1

chapter 7|12 pages

Violence as a peace repellent

The politics of Zimbabwe and hate language during the “Old Dispensation”

chapter 12|13 pages

Media and healing in Zimbabwe

Millstone or milestone?

chapter 13|10 pages

Remembering and healing post-colonial violence

An analysis of Christopher Mlalazi's Running with Mother

chapter 14|16 pages

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

chapter 16|9 pages

“The Bruised and Troubled Nation”

Pentecostals, reconciliation, and development in Zimbabwe