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2024-03-28T23:04:10ZDemystifying the International Criminal Court (ICC) Target Africa Political Rhetoric
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5597
Title: Demystifying the International Criminal Court (ICC) Target Africa Political Rhetoric
Authors: Torque Mude
Abstract: The ongoing debate on the ICC’s selective application of international criminal law targeting Africans has had negative implications on the international court and the law it applies. As a consequence of the political rhetoric that the ICC targets Africa, African leaders and their sympathisers have tended to view the court with contempt and some have expressed intentions to withdraw their membership of the court. Against this background, this paper examines the argument that the ICC targets Africa which amounts to an affront to international criminal law and its objective to end impunity to achieve international justice. The conclusion drawn from this study is that the assertion that the ICC targets Africa is a mere political rhetoric that warrants demystification. It is a political rhetoric advanced by African leaders to manipulate their way out of the responsibility to be accountable to international criminal law. Furthermore, the notion that the court targets Africans lacks substantive credibility as it ignores several structural and technical underpinnings such as the jurisdictional triggers, the role of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) and other functional modalities that guide the operation of the court. Data for this paper were gathered from journal articles, organisational reports and documents, newspapers, case reports, treaties and other online sources.2017-01-01T00:00:00ZTorque MudeOn the brink of an Arab spring-style conflict: Zimbabwe’s quagmire and policy options
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5576
Title: On the brink of an Arab spring-style conflict: Zimbabwe’s quagmire and policy options
Authors: Torque Mude
Abstract: The aim of this study is to examine the political and economic challenges facing Zimbabwe in relation to the potential of generating a violent uprising resembling the Arab Spring civil conflicts. Zimbabwe is in a quagmire due to security, political and economic upheavals that have bedeviled the Southern African country since the end of the Government of National Unity (GNU) in 2013. The government seems to be reluctant to acknowledge the magnitude of the situation and let alone address it. That is the most worrisome thing. If the situation continues unabated, these problems have a potential of generating a violent uprising whose course and effects could equate those that hit North African states since 2010. Data for this study was gathered from secondary data sources including desktop research, books, newspapers and journal articles.2017-03-03T00:00:00ZTorque MudeDepoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016-19 droughts in Zimbabwe
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5400
Title: Depoliticising disaster response in a politically saturated context: the case of the 2016-19 droughts in Zimbabwe
Authors: Ntombizakhe Moyo-Nyoni
Abstract: Responding to disasters triggered by natural hazards is a deeply political process, but it is usually presented by practitioners as an apolitical endeavour. This is striking when disasters occur in authoritarian and politically highly polarised conflict-affected settings. Although the literature provides leads as to why and how humanitarians depoliticise aid, there has been little empirical research on the implications of depoliticisation, especially at the community level. Based on qualitative fieldwork that focused on the drought responses that overlapped with the 2016-19 sociopolitical crises in Zimbabwe, this paper details the practices, motivations, and implications of humanitarian depoliticisation. It differentiates between strategic, coerced, and routine managerial depoliticisation, and argues that, in an authoritarian conflict-affected setting, depoliticisation strategically allows state and non-state actors to defuse sensitive issues and actor relations and to remain safe. However, depoliticisation can also have implications for information management, monitoring, accountability, and protection, and thus ultimately for upholding humanitarian principles.2022-04-28T00:00:00ZNtombizakhe Moyo-NyoniStudent Activism And The Repositioning Of The Girl Child In Zimbabwe's Tertiary Institutions. The Case Of Midlands State University Student Representative Council 2000- 2015
https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5353
Title: Student Activism And The Repositioning Of The Girl Child In Zimbabwe's Tertiary Institutions. The Case Of Midlands State University Student Representative Council 2000- 2015
Authors: Enock Nyajeka; Adele Mcilo; A. F. Chikerema
Abstract: Student activism through SRCs has been there ever since inception of universities the world over. These were meant to represent the students at the decision making structures of the Universities. In Zimbabwe Gender mainstreaming has been advocated when admitting students in tertiary education and a quota system favoring the girl child has been advanced by the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education. Despite all these efforts by Government and universities to encourage and promote female student to participate in student politics, there has however been a lack of gender equality in terms of female student representatives. Female students who partake in the SRC have always been fewer than males and when they do they take up submissive posts with the highest being the Vice Presidency. A number of factors have been alleged to have been the cause of this phenomenon, that is, cultural, economic, political and social .Culturally,Ruminants of the patriarch society still exist and have stifled female participation in all sector of the economy and this has affected female students to partake in student politics. Norms and values of a patriarchal society still exist, where male domination values are upheld and the
women’s space is confined to the private rather than the public sphere. The other internal factor that has harmed the female species from within is the known as the “Pull Her Down Syndrome” where females do little or nothing to empower each other but look down on each other and deliberately pull each other down publicly which maybe through hate speech.The participation of the female students is very minimal in student activism and
decision making structures. However, an increase in enrolment has done very little in promoting the participation of the girl child in student activism. Thus, there is a need to promote their participation in student activism so they can be able to influence decisions and outcomes that affect their everyday lives in Tertiary institutions since they are the minority in terms of population size. Kurebwa (2013) also notes that the political presence of women is necessary for safeguarding that their interests, needs and concerns are incorporated in the policy process by their own input.2016-01-01T00:00:00ZEnock NyajekaAdele MciloA. F. Chikerema