This article covers the attempts of the Zimbabwe’s government attempt to mend racial and international relations by righting its supposed past wrongs in its own country. Zimbabwe has just distributed $3.1 million to start off its compensation agreement that was signed in 2020 between President Emmerson Mnangawa and dispossessed white farmers. This payment was meant to cover infrastructure losses including buildings and Irrigation systems in 378 farms approved of this compensation. The rest of the remaining compensations is set to be sent out as treasury bonds. An additional $20 million has been paid to foreign farms protected by the bilateral agreements.
The payments to foreign farmer to reimburse their lost investments due to the redistribution programs in the 2000s will help Zimbabwe get more trust and build on international relations in the west. This also helps to resolve the debt of international creditors by starting the payments along side the locals who were affected by these agreements. The beginning of compensation however has not been enough to stop criticism over the potentially problematic roll out that argues that the compensation is not adequate. From a purely state level this compensation is a way to mend international relations and stimulate the local economy. This demonstrates a commitment to international norms and a rebuild of trust with the west from Zimbabwe’s government.
This demonstrates the need for international government organizations for the less powerful countries on the world stage as they are required to stand by international norms or be damned by the consequences. This just shows the practice of sticking to these set international norms from an arguable liberal stance where they do it to help solve collective goods. These circumstances also highlight the role that constructivism can play in a country and help it rebuild after years of ethnic strife between ethnic groups inside of countries especially those after colonization as this administration takes a much more cooperative approach to the displaced white farmers that previous administrations.