Publications

Various published works that I have written or featured in:

Recent Publications

 https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2025/10/07/remembering-prof-maxi-schoeman-a-teacher-of-life-love-and-humanity/

Chapter 25: Everyday Justice: Local Peace Beyond the State and Transitional Justice (Ruth Murambadoro and Clever Chikwanda)https://www.bloomsbury.com/ca/rowman–littlefield-handbook-of-peace-and-conflict-studies-9781538147344/

Monograph

Murambadoro, R., (2020). Transitional Justice in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

Refereed Edited Volume

Murambadoro R., Mashayamombe, J., & Nkosi, M., (eds.) (2022). The PhD Experience in African Higher Education. Washington DC: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.

Refereed Articles

  1. Wielenga, C., Baitley, M., & Murambadoro , R., (2020). Beyond Restorative Justice: Understanding Justice from an African Perspective. Ubuntu: Journal of Coflict and Transformation, 9 (1): 43-69.
  2. Murambadoro, R., (2015). We Cannot Reconcile Until the Past Has Been Acknowledged: Perspectives of Gukurahundi from Matabeleland, Zimbabwe. African Journal on Conflict Resolution, 47 (1): 31-52.
  3. Murambadoro, R., & Wielenga, C., (2015). Reconciliation in Zimbabwe: The Conflict Between a State-Centred and People-Centred Approach. Strategic Review for Southern Africa, 37 (1): 33-57.

Refereed Book Chapters

  1. Matshaka, C., & Murambadoro, R., (2024). “Living in the Shadow of Death”: Understandings of Political Violence and Its Aftermath in the Zimbabwean Context. In The Palgrave Handbook on Violence in Africa, edited by Orbet Mlambo and Ezra Chitando, pp. 979-999. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  2. Murambadoro, R., (2023). Restoring the Balance: Justice Practices in Zimbabwe. In Justice During Transitions: Policies that Reflect African Realities, edited by Cori Wielenga and Christopher Nshimbi, pp. 107-146. Senegal: CODESRIA.
  3. Murambadoro, R., (2022). Journeying Unchartered Territory to Master the Craft of Knowledge Production. In The PhD Experience in African Higher Education, edited by Ruth Murambadoro, John Mashayamombe and Umbuso WeNkosi, pp. 153-170. Washington DC: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
  4. Murambadoro, R., (2022). Creating Social Harmony: Justice on the Ground in Mudzi and Hurungwe Districts, Zimbabwe. In Africa Feminisms and Women in the Context of Justice in South Africa, edited by Cori Wielenga, pp. 57-74. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  5. Murambadoro, R., & Matshaka, C., (2019). The Aftermath of Gukurahundi: Dealing with Wounds of the Genocide Through Non-State Justice Processes in Bubi (Inyathi) and Nkayi Districts, Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe. In Indigenous, Traditional and Non-State Transitional Justice in Southern Africa: Namibia and Zimbabwe, edited by Everisto Benyera, pp. 123-140. Washington DC: Rowman and Littlefields Publishers.
  6. Murambadoro, R., (2018). Creating Social Harmony: Justice on the Ground in Mudzi District, Zimbabwe. In Women in the Context of Justice: Continuities and Discontinuities in Southern Africa, edited by Cori Wielenga, pp. 44-61. Pretoria: CSA&G Press.
  7. Wielenga, C., Matsimbe, Z., & Murambadoro, R., (2015). The Liberal Peacebuilding Framework, Electoral Democracy and Reconciliation: The Cases of Mozambique and Zimbabwe. In Election Processes Management and Election-based Violence in Eastern and Southern Africa, edited by Pascal Mihyo, pp. 233-262. Addis Ababa: OSSREA.

Opinion Pieces and Essays

  1. “Zimbabwean Women Struggle for Liberation.” Herizons, Spring Issue 2023, 37 (1), 6-7. https://herizons.ca/product/spring-2023.
  2. “Mugabe and the Tradition to Not Speak Ill of the Dead.” Africa Is A Country, September 18, 2019. https://africasacountry.com/2019/09/do-not-speak-ill-of-the-dead.
  3. “One Year After: Has the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission Act Failed Zimbabweans?” Kujenga Amani, February 7, 2019. https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2019/02/07/one-year-after-has-the-national-peace-and-reconciliation-commission-act-failed-zimbabweans/.
  4. “This Might Be the Last Night We Sleep in Peace: July 30 Elections, Zimbabwe.” Gender Justice, August 1, 2018. https://www.justgender.org/this-might-be-the-last-night-we-sleep-in-peace-july-30-elections-zimbabwe/.
  5. “The Politics of Reconciliation in Zimbabwe: Three Times Failure- Will the Fourth Time Count? Kujenga Amani, December 17, 2014. https://kujenga-amani.ssrc.org/2014/12/17/the-politics-of-reconciliation-in-zimbabwe-three-times-failure-will-the-fourth-time-count/?source=relatedposts.