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What
options for Zimbabwe?
Solidarity Peace Trust
March 31, 2010
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Contents
Wither Zimbabwe?
Introduction
Overview: The current context
Economic trends
Political trends
Options for Zimbabwe
Option one: MDC withdrawal from the GPA
Option two: an early election
Option three: an extended power sharing period preceding new elections
Conclusion
Whither
Zimbabwe?
Introduction
There is a general
consensus that the Global
Political Agreement (GPA), signed in September 2008 and initiated
in February 2009, has not yet lived up to expectations, and has
been seriously stalled in the implementation of some of its key
components. There are clearly key blockages in the process that
are locked into a number of factors, namely Zanu PF's determination
to remain in power at any cost, the MDC's rightful claim to demand
the opening up of democratic spaces promised in the GPA, the limitations
of SADC's capacity to respond to the Zimbabwe crisis, and ambiguities
around the Western response of limited economic engagement with
the Inclusive Government and continued implementations of targeted
sanctions against the Mugabe regime. With fierce positions emerging
around this strategic challenge the severe problems facing the GPA
place an enormous responsibility on all the key players involved
in the Zimbabwe debate, to find a way forward in the current impasse.
The central purpose of the Briefing is to consider the options open
to the central protagonists in this process, within the context
of the balance of power and relations of force within the country
and the region, while also contextualising the international dimension.
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