l To promote national transitional justice principles and processes that prioritise gender narratives l To catalyse key institutional reform processes that lead to guarantees of non-recurrence of human rights violations With these strategic goals, NTJWG got down to business. A thorough study was done of Zimbabwe's human rights terrain, the practices and experiences of stakeholders, the pronouncements and positions of civil society on different areas of transitional justice; the different recommendations by stakeholder groups, the expectations of citizens captured in various reports, the recommendations from other jurisdictions that have dealt with transitional justice issues in the past, as well as the best international practices as articulated by such bodies as the United Nations and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights. Such information was packaged into detailed discussion documents proposing specic transitional justice principles for each of the six thematic areas for Zimbabwe. An accompanying simplied summary was developed. These became the founding documents for the stakeholders conference on transitional justice principles. The NTJWG then issued an invitation to stakeholders to meet for two days to study the discussion papers and extract key principles that they want to adopt as the Guiding Principles for Transitional Justice Policy and Practice in Zimbabwe. 48 organisations responded to the call and met from 23 to 24 July 2015 in Nyanga to deliberate over the principles. 11