ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE
Informal peace committees are community-based responsive and supportive mechanisms that deal with social issues such as interpersonal conflicts, small-scale violence, poverty, hunger and social injustice. As human-service-oriented structures designed and created to represent the interests of local p...
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| description | Informal peace committees are community-based responsive and supportive mechanisms that deal with social issues such as interpersonal conflicts, small-scale violence, poverty, hunger and social injustice. As human-service-oriented structures designed and created to represent the interests of local people, informal peace committees have an often unseen correlation with developmental social work in tackling social issues in their host communities in Zimbabwe. This article, therefore, argues that developmental social workers should become involved in these peace committees and identify the contributions they can make as a profession in order to enhance these successful initiatives |
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| spelling | doaj.art-03ed644b405d4907a36a14fb6414c0702022-12-22T00:19:43ZafrStellenbosch UniversitySocial Work/Maatskaplike Werk0037-80542312-71982019-07-0155213214010.15270/55-2-711ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVEChivasa, Norman 0Harris, Geoffrey Thomas 1Durban University of TechnologyDurban University of TechnologyInformal peace committees are community-based responsive and supportive mechanisms that deal with social issues such as interpersonal conflicts, small-scale violence, poverty, hunger and social injustice. As human-service-oriented structures designed and created to represent the interests of local people, informal peace committees have an often unseen correlation with developmental social work in tackling social issues in their host communities in Zimbabwe. This article, therefore, argues that developmental social workers should become involved in these peace committees and identify the contributions they can make as a profession in order to enhance these successful initiativeshttp://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/711Informal peace committeespeaceSocial Workcommunity-based mechanismsdevelopmental social work perspectivehuman service oriented structures |
| spellingShingle | Chivasa, Norman Harris, Geoffrey Thomas ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk Informal peace committees peace Social Work community-based mechanisms developmental social work perspective human service oriented structures |
| title | ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE |
| title_full | ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE |
| title_fullStr | ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE |
| title_full_unstemmed | ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE |
| title_short | ENHANCING SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS BY INFORMAL PEACE COMMITTEES IN ZIMBABWE: A DEVELOPMENTAL SOCIAL WORK PERSPECTIVE |
| title_sort | enhancing social interventions by informal peace committees in zimbabwe a developmental social work perspective |
| topic | Informal peace committees peace Social Work community-based mechanisms developmental social work perspective human service oriented structures |
| url | http://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/711 |
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