Malawi in crisis, 2011–12

Cammack, Diana

doi:10.1080/03056244.2012.688651

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“…In July, growing civil society protests against corruption and authoritarianism culminated in mass demonstrations that led to the killing of twenty people by the police. 53 With further violence anticipated, the UN Secretary-General deployed an envoy to Malawi. The envoy's mandate specified two objectives: to help lower political tensions and prevent a repetition of the violence and to explore a possible UN role in promoting constructive dialogue among Malawian stakeholders.…”

Section: Political Mandatementioning

confidence: 99%

The Mandate Effect: A Typology and Conceptualization of Mediation Mandates

Nathan¹

2018

Peace & Change

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This article focuses on the mediation mandate, a phenomenon that is neglected in the literature but extremely significant in practice. It aims to highlight the importance of the mandate and deepen conceptual clarity by presenting a typology of different kinds of mediation mandate and examining their functions, effects, and relationships. It shows that mandates can both constrain and empower mediators and that they are major determinants of the process, goals, and outcome of mediation.

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Section: Political Mandatementioning

confidence: 99%

The Mandate Effect: A Typology and Conceptualization of Mediation Mandates

Nathan¹

2018

Peace & Change

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“…Chinsinga responded to Mukhito by saying that he could not continue teaching because his academic freedom was threatened. The lecturers' union went on to boycott ‘unsafe’ classrooms in solidarity, while Mutharika accused Chinsinga of ‘teaching revolution’ (Cammack , 377). Chancellor College became crisis ridden, with demonstrations by staff and students being met by police using live bullets and tear gas.…”

Section: Malawi 2009–12: An Emerging Organic Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Africa's passive revolution: crisis in Malawi

Brooks

Loftus

2016

Trans Inst British Geog

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Recent protest movements in sub-Saharan Africa have generally failed to effect progressive transformations. Efforts to achieve social change have been frustrated by governing elites that continue to utilise their vacillating and unequal relationships with the external environment to sustain power. Although the leading figures may change, the dominant African class can re-establish leadership through new alliances with domestic and international networks of capital. To understand such 'change-without-change', this paper contributes to the growing body of literature on Antonio Gramsci's development of 'passive revolution'. The comparative character of Gramscian analysis enables his philosophy of praxis to be translated into very different historical and geographical settings. With this in mind we draw together recent engagements with passive revolution from Geography, Politics and African Studies. In particular we develop Jean-Franc ßois Bayart's notion of extraversion, while considering it in relation to more recent philological engagements with Gramsci. Our empirical focus is the politics of transition in Malawi. In his second term in office, the autocratic and unpopular president, Bingu wa Mutharika, implemented economic policies that ran against neoliberal orthodoxy and suppressed protest during a period of crisis. Mutharika was replaced, following his death in 2012, by Joyce Banda, a previously marginalised vice-president, who nurtured a re-engagement with transnational capital. Working through the state, Banda led a transformation from on high and moved to impose new economically liberal policies, including a major currency devaluation, which reduced living standards for many. We draw our empirical material from Chancellor College, a major site of protest against Mutharika in 2011. Evidence from interviews with staff and students demonstrates how two episodes of revolution/restoration in Malawi, a country distant from the western historical experience, can be interpreted through Gramsci's socially differentiated understanding of politics.

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“…However, Mutharika's second term was characterized by increased authoritarianism and suppression of democratic rights (Wroe, 2011;Cammack, 2012;Dionne and Dulani, 2013). Economic policies in Mutharika's second term, including a fixed foreign currency exchange regime, reversed the economic gains of his first term (African Development Bank, 2012;Wroe, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 97%