DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIETY

Volume 47 | Number 1 | March 2018, 119-138

DOI 10.21588/dns/2018.47.1.005 Article

Containment Interventions for the Youth

Post-Political Violence: Zimbabwe

Obediah Dodo | Bindura University

The study sought to understand political youth violence, its psychological effects and how
best the youth in selected Seke urban areas could be rehabilitated for reintegration into the
society. The study adopted a qualitative methodological approach which emphasises on
narrative and descriptive results. In-depth structured interviews and bibliometric approach
were used to collect data. Thirty participants were sampled purposively for interviews that
were conducted over a 90-day period before analysis of data was conducted through Latent
and Manifest Content approaches. The study was anchored on the theory of Social
Integration. The study established that the nature of political youth violence is not
predetermined as it is dependent on the level of resistance and psychological influence. It
also found out that various effects had been recorded; psychological and physiological. The
study established that various containment and reintegration programmes could be rolled
out realizing the gravity of the effects and future development.

Keywords: youth violence, politics, culture, rehabilitation, reintegration, containment