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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.

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

Product details

Published Sep 13 2019
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 240
ISBN 9781498592833
Imprint Lexington Books
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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