A Guide to Understanding A Guide to Understanding the the NATIONAL NATIONAL PEACE & RECONCILIATION PEACE & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION COMMISSION IN ZIMBABWE IN ZIMBABWE Acknowledgments The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) at the University of Zimbabwe and the Zimbabwe Open University acknowledges support by team variousthat stakeholders respectively. She was partgiven of the developedduring the the development of this guide. at the Zimbabwe Open University. Counselling degree curriculum to the secretariat of the which At Special the startthanks of thegoland reform programme sheNTJWG, ventured into is the farming whichHuman she is ably running to this day. It is from this humble Zimbabwe Rights NGO Forum. background that Commissioner Chigwedere was sworn in and appointed Chairperson of successful the National Peace This guideDeputy would not have been without the and generous Reconciliation Commission on February 24, 2016, a position she support of our funding partners. holds up to this day. For feedback and information in this guide, we are grateful to the stakeholders who read through the draft guide and gave valuable Commissioner Charles Masunungure input. Commissioner Reverend Charles Masunungure has been a pastor for the past 22 years and has worked in various pastoral capacities we owe it to the thousands of victims who have requested for in Finally, the Family of God Church before he became a Regional Overseer and member Family Covenant Church Provincial this simplified guide. of It isthe their enduring hope for healing which keeps Council, National us on our feet. Council and Governing Council in 2016. He is a holder of a Certificate in Systemic Therapy (Connect-Zimbabwe Institute of Systemic Therapy-1997), BSc in Counselling (Zimbabwe Open University-2005), MSc in Peace, Leadership and Conflict Resolution (Zimbabwe Open University-2016) and a Certificate of Competency in Dialogue, Negotiation and Mediation (Africa University-2017). He is a Marriage and Family Psychotherapist and a peace practitioner who mediated between political parties in the Bindura North and South Constituencies alongside the SADC Observer Team in the 2013 Harmonized Elections. Commissioner Masunungure served in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, initially as a police officer at Mkoba Police Station, Gweru (1990 to 1997) then Provincial Chaplain for Midlands, Mashonaland Central and Harare (1998 to 2002) and as the Deputy Chaplain General at Police General Headquarters (2003 to 2004). He retired on gratuity with an exemplary conduct classification in 2004. His duties and responsibilities in the Zimbabwe Republic Police included complaints handling, investigations, community relations and liaison, crime records management, mediation and dispute resolution, counseling, administration and processing of deceased 46 4