ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS DAPHINE MUREVANHEMA Daphine Murevanhema is an experienced family therapist employed as a mental-health worker with the Counselling Services Unit. Daphine has extensive experience in working with communities and training them in the identification and management of trauma. She enjoys working with the marginalised and the disadvantaged, as well as in imparting knowledge, in empowering, and in fostering resilience. MICHELLE DUMA Michelle Duma is a programmes coordinator at the Zimbabwe Civic Education Trust, an organisation that has been working for more than 15 years in the peace-building field in Zimbabwe. Her work includes conducting training in conflict management as well as introducing sustained dialogue as a peace-building tool at community level. Michelle is passionate about seeing a Zimbabwe where there is sustainable peace and where communities are able to heal from past hurts. She holds a Master of Science in Development Studies from the National University of Science and Technology in Zimbabwe. SIKHULEKILE FAITH MATHE Sikhulekile Faith Mathe is involved in peace building and has over six years’ experience of facilitating peace and conflict-resolution initiatives in various communities in Zimbabwe. She works as a programme manager at Grace to Heal (GTH), a faith-based, non-profit organisation that promotes peace building. Faith has a Master of Arts in Peace and Conflict Resolution from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She developed an appreciation of peace building after completing her Bachelor of Science Honours in Media and Society Studies at Midlands State University in Zimbabwe. She also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Project Management. FARAI MAKETIWA Farai Maketiwa is a programme officer at Silveira House in the organisation’s department for Advocacy and Peace Building. He holds an Honours degree in Social Work from the University of Zimbabwe. He has been actively involved in peace building and communitydevelopment work since 2009. Farai has facilitated several community peace-building initiatives as well as leadership capacity-building programmes. He is interested in promoting community participation relating to matters of reconciliation, with a bias towards advocacy work designed to promote citizen participation in ensuring that state and non-state actors are transparent and are accountable to the citizenry of Zimbabwe. NDABAEZINHLE JOEL NKUNSANE Ndabaezinhle Joel Nkunsane works in the field of peace building as a programmes coordinator with the Archdiocese of Harare’s Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. With more than six years’ experience in this position, he has managed to resuscitate the justice and peace committees in more than 45 parish communities in the archdiocese. These committees have blended youth participation (in the form of the Youth for Justice and Peace Project) into the promotion of peaceful communities and have created several Catholic community leaders’ forums. The forums have brought in various opinion leaders in a given community to discuss principles such as the dignity of the human person, solidarity, and the common good as taught in the light of Catholic social teaching. He is working on x Community Healing: A training manual for Zimbabwe