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While the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Bill provides a legal framework on which transitional justice processes in Zimbabwe can occur, it remains limited because it is an elitist project seeking to provide national cohesion. On the contrary, transitional justice as imagined in this chapter is a social process for repairing relational harms among community members in a cosmological way. The chapter draws on the life history of babamunini Mugezo from Uzumba who was affected by political violence in 2008 to establish the local processes of justice employed to remedy his encounters. I establish that interpersonal justice is an active continuous process geared at renewing the essence of humanity through upholding socio-cultural values of African beings enshrined in Hunhuism.
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Murambadoro, R. (2020). Harm, Displacement and Interpersonal Justice. In: Transitional Justice in Africa. Development, Justice and Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48092-9_3
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