ABOUT THE CONVENERS NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP ZIMBABWE That National Transitional Justice Working Group The National Transitional Justice Working Group (NTJWG) is a platform established by forty-six Zimbabwean transitional justice stakeholders to provide the interface between transitional justice stakeholders. It is a culmination of the efforts of many stakeholders dating back to the symposium on Civil Society and Justice in Zimbabwe which was held in Johannesburg from 11 to 13 August, 2003. In October 2012 and 2013, the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) organized the International Conference on Transitional Justice, bringing together stakeholders from civil society, churches, business, government, academia and international experts to deliberate on how best to achieve justice and give redress to victims of past violations. Both conferences produced a key recommendation on the establishment of a Working Group, whose framework would include working towards the implementation of various transitional justice recommendations (ICTJ I Report 2012:125 & ICTJ II Report: 2). These recommendations saw the birth of NTJWG in July 2014. Among its key interventions in the past four years, the NTJWG has coordinated the development of the Minimum Standards for an Effective Peace and Reconciliation Process (2014), the development of the Guiding Principles on Transitional Justice in Zimbabwe (2015), Analysis of the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill (2016), which ultimately influenced the current law which was passed in 2017 and only became law on 5 January, 2018. Currently, the NTJWG works with over 99 stakeholder organisations which include groups of survivors and publishes a regular monitoring report on transitional justice processes. The NTJWG is Chaired by a leading human rights lawyer, Mr. Alec Muchadehama, who is Deputised by a veteran of the liberation struggle, Mr. Paul Themba Nyathi. The Forum is the Secretariat of the NTJWG. Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) The Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) is an independent, non-governmental, organisation established in South Africa in 1989. It is a multi-disciplinary institute that seeks to understand and prevent violence, heal its effects and build sustainable peace at community, national and regional levels. CSVR does this through collaborating with, and learning from, the lived and diverse experiences of communities affected by violence and conflict. Through research, intervention and advocacy, it seeks to enhance state accountability, promote gender equality, and build social cohesion, integration and active citizenship. While primarily based in South Africa, CSVR works across the African continent through collaborations with community, civil society, state and international partners. 39 2018 TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE POLICY SYMPOSIUM REPORT