African Journal on Conflict Resolution Volume 8 No. 2, 2008

Governance and Security Challenges in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa(Seminar Report No. 43) This CCR report considers the key governance and security challenges facing Southern Africa, with a focus on the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) sub-region's progress towards democracy, and its peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding efforts — particularly in Zimbabwe,…

Governance and Security Challenges in Post-Apartheid Southern Africa (Policy Brief No. 18) This CCR policy brief considers the key governance and security challenges facing Southern Africa, with a focus on the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC) sub-region's progress towards democracy, and its peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding efforts — particularly…

State Reconstruction in Zimbabwe(Seminar Report No. 37) This CCR seminar report is based on a policy advisory group seminar held in Siavonga, Zambia, from 9 to 10 June 2011. The meeting explored some of the most important challenges presently facing state reconstruction efforts in Zimbabwe, and considered strategies to accelerate…

The Southern African Development Community's (Sadc's) relative lack of comment on disputes in Zimbabwe's unity government between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu (PF) and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been interpreted as an indication that Sadc's strategy of "constructive engagement" with the regime constitutes appeasement. It is a view…

State Reconstruction in Zimbabwe (Policy Brief No. 9) This CCR policy brief is based on a policy advisory group seminar held in Siavonga, Zambia, from 9 to 10 June 2011. The meeting explored some of the most important challenges presently facing state reconstruction efforts in Zimbabwe, and considered strategies to…