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Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe
Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change
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2011
Summary
Social movements and civic organizations often face profound strategy dilemmas that can hamper their effectiveness and prevent them from contributing to transformative change and peace. In Zimbabwe two particular dilemmas have fed into and fueled destructive processes of political polarization-dividing society, leadership, and decision-makers well beyond its borders. As conceptualized in this study, the first is whether to prioritize political or economic rights in efforts to bring about nation-wide transformative change (rights or redistribution). The second is whether and how to work with government and/or donors given their political, economic, and social agendas (participation or resistance). This book investigates these issues through two social movement organizations-the National Constitutional Assembly and the Zimbabwe National War Veterans' Association-and the movements they led to achieve constitutional change and radical land redistribution. Through in-depth case study analysis and peace and conflict impact assessment spanning the years 1997-2010, lessons are drawn for activists, practitioners, policy-makers, and scholars interested in depolarizing concepts underpinning polarizing discourses, transcending strategy dilemmas, and understanding how social action can better contribute to transformative change and peace.
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Edition
1/2011
Copyright Year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-2595-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6909-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
255
Product Type
Monograph
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 1: Mapping Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe No access
Chapter 2: Historical Context for Social Action in Zimbabwe No access
Chapter 3: The NCA: Grievances, Structure and Identity, Driving Interests No access
Chapter 4: The ZNLWVA: Grievances, Structure and Identity, Driving Interests No access
Chapter 5: NCA and ZNLWVA: Strategy Dilemmas and Actions No access
Chapter 6: Assessing Outcomes and Implications for Transformative Change and Peace No access
Chapter 7: Transforming and Preventing Polarization: Lessons from Zimbabwe No access
Reference List No access Pages 219 - 242
Appendix: Exchange Rates in Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2009 No access Pages 243 - 244
