BooksMy publications cover a range of issues of peacebuilding and state-building and their linkages to economic recovery, development and resilience. To date, my books have focused on Africa, while my wider research and range of publication offerings are more global, focusing on building peace and preventing conflict in ways that foster inclusive, just development across conflict affected and fragile settings. |
Polarization and Transformation in Zimbabwe:
Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change
Maryland, Lexington Press, 2011 & South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2011.
This book investigates the issues social movements and civic organizations often face through two social movement organizations in Zimbabwe-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 contribute to transformative change and peace. This book can be purchased on the publisher's website - Lexington Books and here - Kwazulu Natal University Press.
"This is a major study of Zimbabwean social movements that undercuts any simple binary between 'good' and 'bad' civic players in Zimbabwe politics."
– Brian Raftopoulos, Solidarity Peace Trust, South Africa
"This important book addresses the complex nature of social change and conflict transformation, systematically [analyzing] the crucial national civil society movements representing concerns of the majority of Zimbabweans." – Thania Paffenholtz
Social Movements, Strategy Dilemmas and Change
Maryland, Lexington Press, 2011 & South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2011.
This book investigates the issues social movements and civic organizations often face through two social movement organizations in Zimbabwe-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 contribute to transformative change and peace. This book can be purchased on the publisher's website - Lexington Books and here - Kwazulu Natal University Press.
"This is a major study of Zimbabwean social movements that undercuts any simple binary between 'good' and 'bad' civic players in Zimbabwe politics."
– Brian Raftopoulos, Solidarity Peace Trust, South Africa
"This important book addresses the complex nature of social change and conflict transformation, systematically [analyzing] the crucial national civil society movements representing concerns of the majority of Zimbabweans." – Thania Paffenholtz
Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Critical Reader and Compendium
Co-edited with Tony Karbo. Geneva: UN University for Peace, 2011.
Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader presents scholarship extracted from academic writings, reports from the United Nations and nongovernmental organisations, speeches, and official documents. Several years in the making, the book explores the nexus between peace, conflict and development issues generally and Africa specifically, highlighting work of African scholars. It extensively explores economic dimensions of civil war, disarmament, demobilization, demilitarization and reintegration. The book uses some of the most outstanding insights into the conflict and development discourse made by leading scholars on the topic, with each chapter including a comprehensive introduction of the issues discussed. The reader is a useful tool for engaging the discourse on what happens after violent conflict and how can development strategies address reconstruction efforts after civil war. This book is freely downloadable on the publisher's website - the UN-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) - and here: PDF: Peace, Conflict and Development in Africa
Co-edited with Tony Karbo. Geneva: UN University for Peace, 2011.
Peace, Conflict, and Development in Africa: A Reader presents scholarship extracted from academic writings, reports from the United Nations and nongovernmental organisations, speeches, and official documents. Several years in the making, the book explores the nexus between peace, conflict and development issues generally and Africa specifically, highlighting work of African scholars. It extensively explores economic dimensions of civil war, disarmament, demobilization, demilitarization and reintegration. The book uses some of the most outstanding insights into the conflict and development discourse made by leading scholars on the topic, with each chapter including a comprehensive introduction of the issues discussed. The reader is a useful tool for engaging the discourse on what happens after violent conflict and how can development strategies address reconstruction efforts after civil war. This book is freely downloadable on the publisher's website - the UN-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) - and here: PDF: Peace, Conflict and Development in Africa
Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology
Written with Abdul Karim Bangura, and edited by Mary E. King and Ebrima Sall. Geneva: UN University for Peace, 2007.
Research in the field of peace and conflict studies needs to improve the quality and relevance of knowledge by and for Africa. This requires a healthy debate over appropriate research methodologies and epistemological approaches, links between empirical research, theory, policy and practice, and the ways in which peace and conflict research compares with other fields. Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology offers a review of the state of peace and conflict studies amidst the wider educational and political economy context in Africa. It reviews conceptual foundations of peace studies, and critically reflects upon research perspectives, paradigms and methodologies with particular suitability for peace research and relevance in and for Africa, with attention to the contributions of African theorists. This book is freely downloadable on the publisher's website - the UN-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) - and here: PDF: Peace Research for Africa
Written with Abdul Karim Bangura, and edited by Mary E. King and Ebrima Sall. Geneva: UN University for Peace, 2007.
Research in the field of peace and conflict studies needs to improve the quality and relevance of knowledge by and for Africa. This requires a healthy debate over appropriate research methodologies and epistemological approaches, links between empirical research, theory, policy and practice, and the ways in which peace and conflict research compares with other fields. Peace Research for Africa: Critical Essays on Methodology offers a review of the state of peace and conflict studies amidst the wider educational and political economy context in Africa. It reviews conceptual foundations of peace studies, and critically reflects upon research perspectives, paradigms and methodologies with particular suitability for peace research and relevance in and for Africa, with attention to the contributions of African theorists. This book is freely downloadable on the publisher's website - the UN-affiliated University for Peace (UPEACE) - and here: PDF: Peace Research for Africa