TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kriger,Norma J.
TI  - Guerrilla veterans in post-war Zimbabwe: symbolic and violent politics, 1980-1987 
T2  - African studies series
SN  - 0521818230
AV  - DT2996 .K75 2003
U1  - 968.91051 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Political violence
KW  - Zimbabwe
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1980-
KW  - History
KW  - Chimurenga War, 1966-1980
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam033/2002031404.html
ER  -