Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe

A Participatory Action Research Project

Dumisani Ngwenya (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XXII, 266 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-66817-8 (ISBN)

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This book is based on a participatory action research project carried out with a group of former Zimbabwe People's revolutionary Army (ZPRA) which was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) which was led by the late Joshua Nkomo. ZPRA was the primary target of Gukurahundi, a pogrom by the Mugabe government which left an estimated 20 000 civilians dead and countless others tortured in the early 1980s in Matebeleland, Zimbabwe. It has been almost 30 years since the violence ended, but there has never been an official healing and reconciliation programme or truth commission into the atrocities. The government chose the path of amnesia by granting a blanket amnesty to all involved. The regime has enforced a culture of silence over the event through repression and intimidation. The book is a culmination of a two year journey, by the group and the author, of an exploration of group-based self-healing approaches to the pain caused by the violence of Gukurahundi.

Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi.- Background and History of Violence in Matebeleland.-Armed Conflict, Trauma and Peacebuilding.- Community Trauma Healing: Theory and Practice.- Participatory Action Research.- Evaluating the PAR Process.- Findings and Discussion.

Erscheinungsdatum	30.10.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science
Zusatzinfo	XXII, 266 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	439 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Africa • African politics • Clinical psychology • Earth and Environmental Science • Forgiveness • Gukurahundi • Healing • International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Confl • Peace studies • Peace studies & conflict resolution • Peace studies & conflict resolution • politics & government • Politics & government • psychotherapy • Public international law: humanitarian law • Reconciliation • Terrorism and Political Violence • Terrorism, armed struggle • Trauma
ISBN-10	3-319-66817-X / 331966817X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-66817-8 / 9783319668178
Zustand	Neuware