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Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe : symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 / Norma J. Kriger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: African studies series ; 103.Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003Description: xx, 293 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521818230
  • 9780521818230
  • 0521537703
  • 9780521537704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 968.91051 21
LOC classification:
  • DT2996 .K75 2003
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. The peace settlement -- 3. The assembly phase -- 4. Military integration -- 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- App. The ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997.
Review: "Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama an historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy, and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-283) and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. The peace settlement -- 3. The assembly phase -- 4. Military integration -- 5. Employment programs for the demobilized -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue: the past in the present -- App. The ruling party's attempts to withdraw ex-combatants' special status and ex-combatants' responses, 1988-1997.

"Zimbabwe's guerrilla veterans have burst into the international media as the storm troopers in Mugabe's new war of economic liberation. In this book, Norma Kriger gives the unfolding contemporary drama an historical background, and shows continuities between the present and past. Between 1980 and 1987, guerrilla veterans and the ruling party colluded with and manipulated each other to build power and privilege in the army, police, bureaucracy, and among workers. Both relied chiefly on violence and appeals to their participation in the anti-colonial liberation war as they sought to vanquish their then political opponents. Today, violence and a liberation war discourse continue to be salient as Mugabe's party and its guerrilla veterans struggle to maintain power through land invasions and purges of a new political opposition. This study gives a critical review of guerrilla programs and the war-to-peace transitions literatures, thus changing the way we view post-conflict societies."--BOOK JACKET.

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