Summary Many years of direct and structural violence in Zimbabwe have left the country with a physically and emotionally wounded people; property destroyed; populations condemned to the Diaspora as political and economic refugees and many internally displaced peoples. Attendant on all this is the politics of violence and intolerance, which pervades Zimbabwe's political space and peoples. The Global Political Agreement (GPA) between the two MDC formations and ZANU (PF) in September 2008 provided the necessary reprieve to ask questions about the transition of the country into a democracy. The space or opportunity brokered by the GPA motivated the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum (the Forum) to set out a series of meetings in its Taking Transitional Justice to the People Program to consult and educate Zimbabweans who have gone through epochs of state sponsored and politically motivated violence in their lives on the nature and processes of transitional justice. The exercise was not in any way structured to begin processes of transitional justice or national healing in Zimbabwe. However, it was set to begin consultations, educate and equip citizens with the necessary and background information on transitional justice and redress in all its forms. From January 2008–June 2008 the Forum visited thirteen constituencies and met and discussed with people from all backgrounds; teachers, police officers, mothers, youths, elderly people, clergymen, traditional leaders and other professionals. The Forum conducted sessions in schools, town halls, in both rural and urban settings. Public discussions were held in English, Shona, Ndebele and Tonga speaking communities. In these open forum discussions, people expressed themselves in their language of choice. In the consultative meetings, actors, sponsors and victims of violence were discussed. The participants noted the manifestations of these violent acts in rape, torture, murder, extortions, kidnappings, blackmail, disappearances, destructions of property, humiliations, selective food and agricultural input distributions and so many other methods. Actors in violence were identified as men, women and youths, soldiers in uniforms, the policemen on duty, secret police and youth from the National Youth Training Service commonly known as the “Green Bombers” among others. The victims also cut across sections of Zimbabweans from all walks of life. Four hundred and forty two (442) people took part in the discussions stretching over six months. 47.1% of the participants were women and 52.9% were men. The participants just below the age of twenty years were 2.16% and those above the age of sixty constituted only 7.69% of the participants. It can be inferred that those below twenty years may not have been involved because they could have been at school or college during the sessions or they were not interested and those above sixty could have been apathetic to political discourses or may simply not have been able to travel to the venues. 1