### id242087834 village headmen in Zimbabwe can be as conflict-averse as middle managers > When my husband died in 2005, my brother-in-law said to go back to my family’s home…. I had been looking after the land and homes for decades. My brother-in-law told me: “I am not your father. You should not be here.” He has taken all of my fields and even tilled my yard [to plant crops] up to my doorstep. Now, he says that I cannot walk on “his” fields. He says that I do not belong there. I reported this to the village headman, but he just tells us to live in peace. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fjx0y243gx4efnjrz0nwm4x9) - [[You Will Get Nothing via Human Rights Watch#id242087834 village headmen in Zimbabwe can be as conflict-averse as middle managers|View in Vault]] - [n] This is bad management writ large -- managers don't want to deal with conflict so they tell ppl to "work it out" and the bully wins. #articleseed #storystem/fic pushing back against this phenomenon always makes for a satisfying story / theme / moral