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

Everisto Benyera (Curatore)

Lexington Books, 2022

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.

• Curatore: Everisto Benyera
• Editore: Lexington Books
• Anno: 2022
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 220 x 153 mm
• Peso: 358 gr.
• EAN: 9781498592840

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