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Title: | Violence, partisanship and transitional justice in Zimbabwe |
Author: | Bratton, Michael |
Year: | 2011 |
Periodical: | Journal of Modern African Studies (ISSN 0022-278X) |
Volume: | 49 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 353-380 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Zimbabwe |
Subjects: | transitional justice political violence attitudes |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/23018897 |
Abstract: | What determines people's willingness to consider punishment for human rights abusers? This article investigates this question in the context of Zimbabwe in the aftermath of the country's violent presidential election campaign of June 2008. Based on a national probability sample survey, the paper shows that exposure to violence was reportedly widespread and that attitudes to transitional justice are mixed. In considering how to handle abuses, Zimbabweans weigh the pros and cons carefully and, recognizing that peace and justice are difficult to obtain simultaneously, generally prefer the former. The article analyses the various factors that together predict a citizen's proclivity to claim transitional justice in its most demanding retributive form. Reflecting power relations, the results indicate that political partisanship is almost as important as individuals' personal experience of actual and threatened acts of violence. Bibliogr., notes, sum. [Journal abstract] |