background that Commissioner Chigwedere was sworn in and appointed Deputy Chairperson of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission on February 24, 2016, a position she holds up to this day. Commissioner Charles Masunungure Commissioner Reverend Charles Masunungure has been a pastor for the past 22 years and has worked in various pastoral capacities in the Family of God Church before he became a Regional Overseer and member of the Family Covenant Church Provincial Council, National Council and Governing Council in 2016. He is a holder of a Certicate in Systemic Therapy (Connect-Zimbabwe Institute of Systemic Therapy-1997), BSc in Counselling (Zimbabwe Open University-2005), MSc in Peace, Leadership and Conict Resolution (Zimbabwe Open University-2016) and a Certicate of Competency in Dialogue, Negotiation and Mediation (Africa University-2017). He is a Marriage and Family Psychotherapist and a peace practitioner who mediated between political parties in the Bindura North and South Constituencies alongside the SADC Observer Team in the 2013 Harmonized Elections. Commissioner Masunungure served in the Zimbabwe Republic Police, initially as a police ofcer at Mkoba Police Station, Gweru (1990 to 1997) then Provincial Chaplain for Midlands, Mashonaland Central and Harare (1998 to 2002) and as the Deputy Chaplain General at Police General Headquarters (2003 to 2004). He retired on gratuity with an exemplary conduct classication in 2004. His duties and responsibilities in the Zimbabwe Republic Police included complaints handling, investigations, community relations and liaison, crime records management, mediation and dispute resolution, counseling, administration and processing of deceased estates, solemnization of marriages and policy design and training for 43

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