Indigenous, traditional, and non-state transitional justice in Southern Africa : Zimbabwe and Namibia / edited by Everisto Benyera.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Benyera, Everisto, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Transitional justice--Africa, Southern.

Transitional justice.

Transitional justice--Zimbabwe.

Transitional justice--Namibia.

Namibia.

Zimbabwe.

Southern Africa.

Physical Description:

viii, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Transitology, Transitional Justice and Transformative Justice / Everisto Benyera

A Dozen Transitional Justice Realities and Some Preliminary Problematisation / Everisto Benyera

The Case for Indigenous, Traditional and Non-State Transitional Justice / Everisto Benyera

Construing Transitology in the Context(s) of Democratization, Transitional Justice and Decolonization in Africa: A Legal Anthropology Perspective / Tapiwa Warikandwa & Artwell Nhemachena

Operation Murambatsvina, Transitional Justice & Discursive Representation in Zimbabwe / Umali Saidi

'Healing the Dead' in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe: Combining Tradition with Science to Restore Personhood after Massacres / Shari Eppel

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

Grassroots Mechanisms for Justice, Peace-building and Social Cohesion in Zimbabwe's 'New' Farm Communities / Tom Tom and Clement Chipenda

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

Stains on the Wall: Struggle to survive post genocide violence by Nama- Herero communities in Namibia / Tafirenyika Madziyauswa

Uncharted Waters: Reparations through Indigenous Forms of Transitional Justice for Namibian Victims of a colonial Genocide / Christian Harris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1498592821

9781498592826

OCLC:

1122448104