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Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe

A Participatory Action Research Project

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  • Offers insights into the complexities of dealing with mass political violence at community level
  • Contributes to our understanding of the potential of small self-help groups in recovering from trauma
  • Explains the consequences of not healing, in particular passing on trauma to the next generation

Part of the book series: The Anthropocene: Politik—Economics—Society—Science (APESS, volume 19)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 1-14
  3. Armed Conflict, Trauma and Peacebuilding

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 35-61
  4. Community Trauma Healing—Theory and Practice

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 63-94
  5. Participatory Action Research

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 95-116
  6. Findings and Discussion

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 165-198
  7. Contentious Issues

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 199-210
  8. Summary, Conclusions and Reflections

    • Dumisani Ngwenya
    Pages 211-218
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 219-266

About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Grace To Heal, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

    Dumisani Ngwenya

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eBook USD 39.99
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  • Read on any device
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 54.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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