1. Introduction This Training Toolkit is a guide for Peace Clubs that will be implementing peacebuilding and conflict transformation activities in their communities. The guide provides an overview of Heal Zimbabwe Trust (HZT) activities and what the organisation seeks to achieve by implementing grassroots level peace interventions. This module helps Peace Clubs to understand conflicts within their communities by identifying different perspectives of conflicts, underlying causes of conflicts, and their effects. The toolkit also provides simple conflict analysis tools and options for conflict prevention and resolution. Critical questions addressed here are; what are conflicts? How the causes of conflicts and players are involved observed? When to address a conflict and how to address different conflicts? Community Based Organisations can also use this toolkit to mainstream peace building activities in their daily chores. 2. Facts About Heal Zimbabwe Heal Zimbabwe Trust (HZT) is a civic society organisation that was established in 2009 to promote community peace, healing and reconciliation. Acknowledging the effects of Zimbabwe’s historical episodes of violence and conflicts, the recent being the 2008 electoral related violence, HZT sought to facilitate community healing, build peace and facilitate reconciliation and social justice in affected communities of Zimbabwe. HZT has, within its short period of existence, developed reputation and relationships of trust in dealing with socio-cultural, economic, environmental and political conflicts affecting our communities. It is within this context that HZT works with local communities and government structures to promote peace, national healing and reconciliation. a) Mission Our mission is ‘to prevent and transform conflicts with a particular focus on social justice and human rights.’ b) Vision HZT envisions ‘A peaceful and prosperous Zimbabwe that celebrates diversity in local communities.’ c) Objectives To contribute to peaceful and tolerant local communities in Zimbabwe through advocacy and lobbying and providing psycho-social support services To raise awareness among communities to understand the causes and effects of conflicts in Zimbabwe To prevent, mitigate and manage socio-political, environmental and economic conflicts that affect communities in Zimbabwe To improve local communities leadership and citizens’ capacity to address conflicts within their communities. 2 ©Heal Zim 2016

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