A Guide to Understanding A Guide to Understanding the the NATIONAL NATIONAL PEACE & RECONCILIATION PEACE & RECONCILIATION COMMISSION COMMISSION IN ZIMBABWE IN ZIMBABWE Examples Acknowledgments Function To develop mechanisms for early -Setting up a national early warning detection of areas of potential system for detecting conflict The National Transitional Working conflicts and disputes and to take Justice and to ensure rapidGroup response(NTJWG) to acknowledges support given by various stakeholders during the appropriate preventive measures. prevent violence. of this guide. Todevelopment conciliate and mediate disputes -Traditional or cultural structures, among communities, organisations faith based structures, professional and individuals. mediationof offices or non-state Special thanks go to the secretariat the NTJWG, which is the actors providing such services. Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum. To do anything incidental to the Any other measures the prevention of conflict and the Commission may deem necessary. This guide would not have been successful without the generous promotion of peace. support of our funding partners. For 4: feedback information this guide, we are grateful to the Table Functionsand towards making in recommendations. stakeholders who read through the draft guide and gave valuable input. Function Examples To recommend legislation The NPRC can make we owe the thousands of victims who have for toFinally, ensure thatit to assistance, recommendations to requested have including documentation, Parliament enact law to which ensure keeps this simplified guide. It is theirisenduring hope for ahealing rendered persons affected victims of past conflicts receive us on ourto feet. by conflicts, pandemics or other assistance. Zimbabwe has had circumstances. such laws before. An example of such a law is the War Victims Compensations Act [Chapter 11:16] which established a fund to compensate victims of the liberation war. - In the report Breaking the Silence, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe recommended amendment of the existing War Victims Compensation Act to cover compensation also for victims of later conflicts. Northern Ireland’s Day of Reflection The Day of Reflection on 21 June is a day to acknowledge the deep hurt and pain caused by the conflict in and around Northern Ireland, to reflect on our own attitudes on what more we might have done or might still do and to make a personal commitment that such loss should never be allowed to happen again. www.healingthroughremembering.org 20 4