3.3 Opportunities The Church‟s good relationship with the grassroots as well as its established working relationship with local traditional and local authority leadership presents a good opportunity to easily mobilise the constituencies in each community for the Project. The Church has a reputation for tolerance and, as such, has the ability or opportunity to draw participation from people of all circles – regardless of political affiliation or creed. The same applies for the CSOs which are part of the Project as they have been working with communities at various levels. Their involvement affords the opportunity to draw the interest of the groups in society that have been positively impacted on by these organisations. The involvement of some of the Chapter 12 Commissions, especially the ZGC, ZHRC, ZEC and the NPRC, grants the opportunity of identifying critical matters of concern in communities. It also avails the opportunity to target with the required expertise, groups such as women and children, to be champions of constitutional issues in their communities. Generally, there has been a growing eagerness among communities to know and understand what the Constitution says, since it is now available in all the country‟s officially recognised languages. 3.4 Threats The little understanding of constitutional matters by most citizens may cause them to misinterpret the intentions of awareness programmes, and render them uninterested in reading the Constitution in their own languages. Generally, the inaccessibility of the Constitution both linguistically and in terms of unavailability of copies to wider society, has made many citizens to view the Constitution as a preserve for technocrats such as lawyers, judges and legislators. This fosters general disinterest by ordinary people in the Constitution for themselves, thus leading to apathy when it comes to attending meetings organised by the Project teams. Another threat is the non-alignment of some Acts to the Constitution. This breeds an attitude of indifference among people. Another threat is the hegemony of a couple of languages over others that were previously marginalised and regarded as „minority‟. This is a threat in that previously marginalised groups may cause conflict through direct or indirect confrontation during meetings, especially where some members of the team may display inability to speak their languages. This may present to the people an opportunity to air out their long bottled grievances over linguistic imperialism. Similarly, linguistic groups that will be excluded from this Project may criticise it and express their widespread discontent through means that may either destabilise the process or bring disrepute to it. Another threat is people‟s mistrust of the authenticity of the translated constitutions. Members of certain linguistic groups may be suspicious as to the identity of the translators for the Constitution in their languages, and query its accuracy therein. The culture of fear among citizens, brought about by a history of beating, harassment, raping and killing of citizens, may repel them from willing participation in the Project for fear of reprisal. 21