The Zimbabwe Peace and Reconciliation Commission: Towards an integrated national infrastructure for peace?

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2022-06-20 DOI:10.1080/10246029.2022.2086475

G. Dzinesa

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) in Zimbabwe is potentially a crucial architect of coordinated and integrated infrastructure for peace (I4P). But it is not without its critics and sceptics. The Commission is the institutional centrepiece of government’s post-conflict justice, peace, healing and reconciliation programme. It is mandated with developing national and sub-national architecture to drive the peacebuilding agenda. The NPRC is relatively young and is in the process of emplacing structures to acquire the organisational capacity to execute its mandate efficaciously within major constraints. While statist, top-down approaches are hardly sufficient to build peace, the Commission is evolving into a broad peace infrastructure, weaving horizontal and vertical relationships with various local stakeholders with the assistance of international partners. The NPRC is leading Zimbabwe’s I4P project in a context-specific manner that promotes the principles of national and local ownership, inclusivity, gender mainstreaming, cooperation and capacity building for sustainability. The Commission, notwithstanding its well-documented weaknesses, has achieved important milestones towards a prospective integrated national I4P. This article broadens the existing literature on the NPRC by examining milestones in the implementation of its mandate, particularly demonstrating how it is morphing into a potential cornerstone of a broad national I4P with external support.

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津巴布韦和平与和解委员会：建立一个综合的国家和平基础设施？

津巴布韦国家和平与和解委员会(NPRC)可能是协调和综合和平基础设施(I4P)的重要建筑师。但它并非没有批评者和怀疑论者。该委员会是政府冲突后司法、和平、治愈与和解方案的机构核心。它的任务是制定国家和次国家架构，以推动建设和平议程。国家和平行动比较年轻，正在建立结构，以获得在重大限制条件下有效执行其任务的组织能力。虽然中央集权、自上而下的方法不足以建立和平，但委员会正在发展成为一个广泛的和平基础设施，在国际伙伴的协助下，与各种地方利益攸关方建立横向和纵向关系。NPRC正在以一种具体情况的方式领导津巴布韦的I4P项目，促进国家和地方所有权、包容性、性别主流化、合作和可持续能力建设的原则。该委员会尽管有充分证明的弱点，但在未来的综合国家I4P方面取得了重要的里程碑。本文通过研究NPRC任务执行中的里程碑，拓宽了现有的NPRC文献，特别是展示了它如何在外部支持下演变为广泛的国家I4P的潜在基石。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.