accountability considerations when there is more democratic space and opportunities to discuss and carry through a transitional justice agenda, it is also important to assess how justice and accountability considerations might be utilised as an integral part of efforts to (re)build democratic space. In these circumstances, the research/interview process also endeavoured to promote ideas and options for the promotion and realisation of justice and accountability within the confines of existing realities. Methodology Over a period of seven months, the writer visited Zimbabwe on six occasions where he met with and discussed transitional justice options and developments with a number of individuals and organisations, many several times over the project period.9 During these visits, the writer has also participated in several workshops, focusing specifically on transitional justice issues with victim groupings (see below), as well as other processes responding to proposed legislative initiatives to regulate the NGO sector and the introduction of ‘electoral reform’ in Zimbabwe. In addition, the writer has engaged with a range of civil society actors in both Zimbabwe and South Africa on a continuous basis throughout the project period. He has also accessed a wide cross-section of secondary source material on contemporary human rights issues in Zimbabwe. This report is divided into three sections: exploring what has been done, as well as options and constraints around widening of the debate on transitional justice options; a review of humanrights data collection in Zimbabwe, with a particular focus on quantitative data collection; and an overview/assessment of existing human rights reports on Zimbabwe. The report is intended as a resource and provides a framework for further engagement around certain transitional options. It also contains a number of recommendations on taking forward some of the various processes under consideration. 9 For obvious reasons it is not possible to publicise the list of individuals and organisations that have been engaged, although the author is confident it represents a cross-section of Zimbabwean civil society groupings working directly with core justice and accountability issues. For security reasons, this public report has also excised certain details relating to the work of specific organisations. 5