HEAL ZIMBABWE - BASELINE STUDY REPORT Protester holding a placard on land refom issues. Source https://newsclick.in/zimbabwe-and-robert-mugabe-looking-back e) Post Conflict Reconciliation Efforts after Independence Sin c e independence, s eve ra l re c o n c i l i a t i o n e f f o r t s h ave b e e n attempted in Zimbabwe, albeit with little or no success. At independence Prime Minister Mugabe’s decree of 1980 based on a “forgive and forget” (forced amnesia) concept of reconciliation was pronounced. However, a conflict among key nationalist movements [Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA)] subsequently ensued leading to another reconciliation effort through the Unity Accord signed on December 22 in 1987. The 2000 land reform became an opportunistic reconciliation effort to address one of the national grievances which became an advantage to suppress the voices of war veterans who were demanding land, albeit violently and to the benefit of ZANU PF political business. The Organ on National Healing and Reconciliation and Integration (ONHRI) established through the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008 was the most recent reconciliation effort. The GPA was a further reaching political reconciliation institution which established a Coalition Government whose lifespan was cut short in 2013. However, these initiatives were never inserted into a feasible peace and reconciliation framework. 7