the chaotic land reform and the continuing economic challenges. The NPRC should procedurally address political and electoral violence and race relations mostly taking into account inclusive stakeholder participation and engagement. Programmatically, truthtelling and justice should be prioritised as entry points to peace and reconciliation processes while forgiving and forgetting and amnesty should be least prioritised to a lesser degree. 10.3. Expectations As the peace and reconciliation programmes are rolled out, communities expect a formal redress of their grievances by the NPRC. Compensation, truthtelling, apologies and a guarantee on norecurrence of the past violations are some of the expected interventions that could allow healing, reconciliation and peace building. Communities largely do not have high expectations from the government, but there is a desire to have a genuine process that facilitates closure and guarantees nonrecurrence of past violations. a) Formal redress of the past through dialogue Communities expect dialogue to be held at all levels in an environment that allows freedom to disclose truths without reprisal. However, participants (both victims and perpetrators) must be guaranteed protection before, during and after such dialogues. Churches, political parties, traditional leaders, civic society organizations, government and other stakeholders must all take part in ensuring that dialogue platforms allow constructive engagement and free participation in order to yield positive results. 64 RECONCILIATION PROCESSES IN ZIMBABWE b) Making Amends and Moving Forward Respondents indicated that there can be no peace and reconciliation without compensation, truth telling, justice, apology and assurances of nonrecurrence of violence. Therefore, for the victims of violence and conflict, justice should be dispensed by having the government acknowledge the past wrongs and take responsibility for all historical human rights violations. Truth telling public apology, compensation and guarantee of non-recurrence should be prioritised by the government as well as prosecuting those who participated in various violations. However, justice should not be universally defined to mean prosecutions and use of national courts. Traditional amends-making mechanisms should also be explored at the lowest community level to encourage natural ways of peace and reconciliation. Using traditional methodologies in peace and reconciliation will reduce burden from the NPRC as it allows communal reconciliation processes to address mutually beneficial justice without retribution. c) Development and Economic Justice The past economic downturns and marginalisation experienced in Zimbabwe, particularly, the Economic Structural Adjustment Programme (ESAP), the 2008 hyperinflation and dollarization are key historical episodes needing attention in the peace and reconciliation process. The study observed that citizens expect economic healing and development to reduce the propensity of abuse by political parties and conflict entrepreneurs. Youth, women and the unemployed rural populations have been