Module 6 helps practitioners to promote community healing through reconciliation and transitional justice. The module explores how these key concepts, which are often misunderstood and feared, can help rebuild and heal communities by bringing both perpetrators and victims to sustained dialogue. It also provides an overview of these concepts at regional and international levels and on how these approaches can be employed by individuals and communities in post-conflict societies in order to ensure healing and sustainable peace. Module 7 introduces the concepts of dealing with trauma and providing psychological support so as to promote community healing. These are very technical concepts that are usually ignored yet, if not considered, they are the harbingers of the next cycle of violence. The module employs simplified language for use by front-line workers who encounter traumatised survivors during the course of their work. It also provides internationally accepted toolkits that give guidelines that will be helpful to practitioners. Lastly, Module 8 brings trainers back to the basics of monitoring and evaluation, two activities that are critical to their community interventions. It is always important to measure what has been achieved against what was initially planned in order to assess whether programmes are realising their intended goals that they were funded for, while at the same time learning from what has been done. Such reflection should be systemic from the outset of the planning process to the time of the final assessment. The module therefore helps trainers to make monitoring and evaluation processes part of every intervention as we await new case studies to share with the world. Most importantly, all the training modules in this manual reflect on the constitutional obligations of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC). It is our greatest wish that this manual, along with others that have been produced before, will contribute to the healing of communities and thus to a peaceful and prospering Zimbabwe. Webster Zambara Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR), Cape Town xvi Community Healing: A training manual for Zimbabwe