Introduction Globally, conflicts are intrinsic to protected areas (PAs), given the multiple actors, varying interests, and institutional structures connected with PA management. Some experts argue that participatory approaches to natural resources management—especially when women’s views are incorporated—reduce conflicts, promote equity, and build local capacities.[1] Despite this argument, many policies and practices concerning natural resource conflict […]
Introduction The study of refugees has shifted from maintaining the customary homogenization of refugees, including the equation of flight with helplessness, to recognizing their agency. Yet relapses still occur, which perhaps indicates the challenge of balancing the necessarily humanitarian aspect of flight with the intrinsic human qualities of agency and resilience. In this article, I […]
Many observers described Zimbabwe’s 2023 harmonized elections to elect the president, the legislators, and local authority representatives as flawed, and the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa disputed the election outcome. The Southern African Development Community Election Observer Mission (SEOM) concluded in its report that some aspects of the […]
Contemporary electoral contests are now synonymous with increased production, distribution, and consumption of false and misleading narratives about candidates, political parties, electoral management bodies, the voting processes, and the announcement of winners and losers. Electoral disinformation refers to the deliberate spreading of false and misleading information related to candidates, political parties, electoral management bodies, electoral […]
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has long played a pivotal role in observing elections in Zimbabwe and other SADC member states. However, a notable departure from past practice occurred during Zimbabwe’s most recent elections, in August 2023, when the SADC observer mission issued an unprecedented preliminary report that was both negative and critical in […]
Dr. Solomon Danga is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of Children, Family and Society at the University of the Western Cape. In April 2023, he was awarded his PhD in Child and Family Studies from the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Solomon obtained a Bachelor of Arts […]
