Indigenous, Traditional, and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Zimbabwe and Namibia

Author:   Everisto Benyera ,  Everisto Benyera ,  Tapiwa Warikandwa ,  Artwell Nhemachena
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498592826


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 September 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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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Author:   Everisto Benyera ,  Everisto Benyera ,  Tapiwa Warikandwa ,  Artwell Nhemachena
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.526kg
ISBN:  

9781498592826


ISBN 10:   1498592821
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   13 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Transitology, Transitional Justice and Transformative Justice Everisto Benyera Chapter 2: A Dozen Transitional Justice Realities and Some Preliminary Problematisation Everisto Benyera Chapter 3: The Case for Indigenous, Traditional and Non-State Transitional Justice Everisto Benyera Chapter 4: Construing Transitology in the Context(s) of Democratization, Transitional Justice and Decolonization in Africa: A Legal Anthropology Perspective Tapiwa Warikandwa & Artwell Nhemachena Chapter 5: Operation Murambatsvina, Transitional Justice & Discursive Representation in Zimbabwe Umali Saidi Chapter 6: 'Healing the Dead' in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe: Combining Tradition with Science to Restore Personhood after Massacres Shari Eppel Chapter 7: The Aftermath of Gukurahundi: Dealing with Wounds of the Genocide through Non-State Justice Processes in Bubi (Inyathi) and Nkayi Districts, Matabeleland North Province, Zimbabwe Ruth Murambadoro and Chenai Matshaka Chapter 8: Grassroots Mechanisms for Justice, Peace-building and Social Cohesion in Zimbabwe's 'New' Farm Communities Tom Tom and Clement Chipenda Chapter 9: Young women in peacebuilding and development in Zimbabwe: The case of Zimbabwe Young Women's Network for Peacebuilding in Mutoko Patience Thauzeni and Torque Mude Chapter 10: Stains on the Wall: Struggle to survive post genocide violence by Nama- Herero communities in Namibia Tafirenyika Madziyauswa Chapter 11: Uncharted Waters: Reparations through Indigenous Forms of Transitional Justice for Namibian Victims of a colonial Genocide Christian Harris

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Everisto Benyera is indeed carving a fine niche in the field of transitional justice in Africa and that his ideas frame this important volume of essays is inevitable. Bringing together insights from colonial genocide in Namibia and postcolonial violence in Zimbabwe, this volume enriches us conceptually, theoretically and empirically. -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life (2016) and Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization (2018)


"Everisto Benyera is indeed carving a fine niche in the field of transitional justice in Africa and that his ideas frame this important volume of essays is inevitable. Bringing together insights from colonial genocide in Namibia and postcolonial violence in Zimbabwe, this volume enriches us conceptually, theoretically and empirically. -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, author of ""The Decolonial Mandela: Peace, Justice and the Politics of Life"" (2016) and ""Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization"" (2018) This edited volume, written by a new generation of prominent scholars on African political transitions, deserves to be read by students, policymakers and everyone generally interested in contemporary processes of transitional justice in Southern Africa. Given some of the entanglements in the histories of violence in Zimbabwe and Namibia, this collection of essays offers fresh knowledge regarding non-state practices deployed to address the legacies of political violence in both countries. -- Victor Igreja, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba"


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Everisto Benyera is associate professor of African politics at the University of South Africa in Pretoria.

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