TY - BOOK ID - 32076162 TI - Healing the Wounds of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe : A Participatory Action Research Project PY - 2018 SN - 3319668188 331966817X PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Political science. KW - Africa KW - Peace. KW - Terrorism. KW - Political violence. KW - Psychotherapy. KW - International humanitarian law. KW - Political Science and International Relations. KW - Terrorism and Political Violence. KW - International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict. KW - Peace Studies. KW - African Politics. KW - Politics and government. KW - Psychagogy KW - Therapy (Psychotherapy) KW - Acts of terrorism KW - Attacks, Terrorist KW - Global terrorism KW - International terrorism KW - Political terrorism KW - Terror attacks KW - Terrorist acts KW - Terrorist attacks KW - World terrorism KW - Humanitarian conventions KW - International humanitarian law KW - Coexistence, Peaceful KW - Peaceful coexistence KW - Administration KW - Civil government KW - Commonwealth, The KW - Government KW - Political theory KW - Political thought KW - Politics KW - Science, Political KW - Zimbabwe African National Union. KW - Zimbabwe KW - Social conditions. KW - Afrikanische Nationalunion von Zimbabwe KW - Z.A.N.U. KW - ZANU KW - ZANU-PF (Organization : Zimbabwe) KW - Africa-Politics and government. KW - International relations KW - Disarmament KW - Peace-building KW - Security, International KW - War KW - Mental illness KW - Clinical sociology KW - Mental health counseling KW - Direct action KW - Insurgency KW - Political crimes and offenses KW - Subversive activities KW - Political violence KW - Terror KW - Treatment KW - Psychotherapy . KW - Africa—Politics and government. KW - War (International law) KW - Violence KW - Terrorism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32076162 AB - 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. ER -