Terence Mashingaidze is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History and the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. He is a 2014 APN Individual Research Grant Alumnus, through which he completed the research project: "Unmasking Silences and Impunity: The Zimbabwe Peace Project’s Mediations in Entrenching Amity in a Polarized Political Dispensation, 2000-2013". His research interests include African liberation movements and nationalism; human rights; conflict and reconciliation processes; development induced spatial dislocations; the politics of natural resource management and access; and the political economy of health and disease.