STAKEHOLDERS CONFERENCE
on TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PRINCIPLES IN ZIMBABWE
v.
CONFERENCE REPORT
AUGUST 2015
Memorialisation initiatives must assist in the development of
people's identity
b. Process Related Principles
i.
Sensitive to context, location and the target audience
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ii.
Memorialisation projects must be implemented with great
attention to the context. This must be aligned at different
levels – whether they are family projects, community projects,
and national projects, regional or international initiatives
iii.
Memorialisation initiatives must involve the participation of
stakeholders and the grassroots. Local communities and all
stakeholders must be involved from conception, design,
development and implementation of the memorialisation
initiatives.
iv.
A memorialisation initiative must explicitly show
acknowledgment for past wrongs but should be sensitive to
the context.
v.
In designing memorialisation projects, survivors and victims
must play a leading role, and their best interests must take
priority. This is linked to the principle of stakeholder
participation but goes on to focus on victims and their varied
needs.
vi.
Memorialisation projects must be carried out with extreme
caution, and experts must be involved especially experts from
the affected groups who share and understand the
circumstances of affected communities. In areas like
exhumations that require international expertise, such experts
must be brought into the matter. In private matters affecting
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