Healing the Wounds of the Past
25 Feb 2020
Attempting to contextualise Zimbabwe’s complex history of political conflict while providing an analysis of reconciliation and nation-building attempts since 1980.
Attempting to contextualise Zimbabwe’s complex history of political conflict while providing an analysis of reconciliation and nation-building attempts since 1980.
The event sought to provide an opportunity to identify potential research projects that may emanate from the current research.
Discussing the development of National Elections Response Groups as peacebuilding tools during recent elections in West African countries.
Exploring the contemporary challenges faced by state-making efforts from the perspective of internal colonialism.
Determining the limits of statebuilding processes without concerted efforts to simultaneously build the nation.
Vasu Gounden participates in the Department of Arts and Culture’s nation-building initiative.
How opposing cultural ideologies and limitations of formal state-building mechanisms threaten to re-establish conflict in the world’s newest state.
Owing to xenophobic sentiments, Kenya’s government has missed a nation-building opportunity by failing to recognise Kenyan-Somalis as citizens.