February 2012

Habermas’ deliberative democracy and the Zimbabwean constitution-making process

The paper applies Habermas’ theory of deliberative democracy to argue for an objective, non-partisan and non-evil outcome in the Zimbabwean constitution-making process. Habermas’ deliberative democracy is particularly useful because it emphasizes rational discourse and it tries to put away prejudices and egoistic tendencies in constitutional making. For Zimbabweans, non-partisan thinking assumes political...

Author(s): Ephraim Taurai Gwaravanda

February 2012

Exogenic factor and the futility of conflict resolution in Africa: The Darfur experience

This paper studies intractable conflict in Africa using the Darfur experience as case illustration with the primary goal of evaluating the place of exogenous factor(s) in the persistence of such conflict. With the aid of alternative dispute resolution theory, the paper discovered that there is a strong relationship between the dynamic interests of external forces and the intractability of the Darfur conflict. The use of...

Author(s): Chukwuemeka Eze Malachy