• Traditional mechanisms - there is also an opportunity to facilitate community level peace and reconciliation processes through grassroots level institutions such as traditional leadership and practices. Traditional leaders can facilitate peace and reconciliation processes through administering traditional courts, facilitating kuripa, kutandabotso, kupiramidzimu, among others and can supplement the national level conventional justice practices. These practices can be done without involving national level leaders whose participation is usually viewed with resentment. Although traditional leaders are increasingly becoming politically partisan in dispensing their duties, they still command respect within rural communities such that their genuine involvement in the process could easily build confidence among peace and reconciliation process beneficiaries. • Churches and faith based organisations - churches can also assist in promoting peace and reconciliation processes through “preaching moral practices that propagate the spirit of love and unity.”96 Religious institutions generally enjoy a substantial following and they have a wider national presence. This make churches a strategic social change agent for peace and reconciliation, in terms of messaging and program activity implementation. For easy synergies and collaborations the NPRC may build working relations with churches associations such as the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, Association of Pentecostal Churches and the Catholics Bishops Conference, among others. • New Media -social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Short Term Messages and Blogs can also play a greater role in peace and reconciliation as a communication tool for education and awareness raising. There is an increase in the use of social media in Zimbabwe which could make it easier to spread low cost peace and reconciliation messages to a wider audience. • Other government departments – while the NPRC is an independent body, it should take advantage of other government departments when implementing its programme activities. For example, the police should assist by enforcing the law through investigating criminal cases connected to peace and reconciliation issues as well as making arrests where necessary.97 The Ministry of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare can also assist with Counselling services as social support to victims of violence and conflict while departments responsible for gender and youth development can provide rehabilitation platforms for those in need of such services. Personal interview with a ZANU PF youth member in Mutoko on the 14th of August 2016 Muzondidya, J. (2010). The Zimbabwean Crisis and the Unresolved Conundrum of Race in the Post-colonial Period. Journal of Developing Societies. Volume 26(1) 96 97 54 RECONCILIATION PROCESSES IN ZIMBABWE