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Social activities and civic corporations usually face profound procedure dilemmas that could abate their effectiveness and stop them from contributing to transformative swap and peace. In Zimbabwe specific dilemmas have fed into and fueled harmful methods of political polarization-dividing society, management, and decision-makers well past its borders. As conceptualized during this examine, the 1st is whether or not to prioritize political or financial rights in efforts to result in nation-wide transformative switch (rights or redistribution). the second one is whether or not and the way to paintings with govt and/or donors given their political, monetary, and social agendas (participation or resistance). This publication investigates those matters via social move organizations-the nationwide Constitutional meeting and the Zimbabwe nationwide battle Veterans' Association-and the routine they ended in in achieving constitutional switch and radical land redistribution. via in-depth case examine research and peace and clash effect overview spanning the years 1997-2010, classes are drawn for activists, practitioners, policy-makers, and students drawn to depolarizing ideas underpinning polarizing discourses, transcending process dilemmas, and knowing how social motion can greater give a contribution to transformative switch and peace.

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