The Symposium put on the table a cocktail of measures including security sector reform, approaches to truth recovery that focus on documentation, archival and preservation; gender justice and approaches to knowledge management that ensure that the legacy of the organisations working with victims is accurately captured and preserved. Across the different thematic policy reflections, the symposium emphasised the critical role of independent commissions in ensuring the success of the transitional justice policy for Zimbabwe. The symposium tasked the NTJWG with decoding the rich content generated in the three days to develop a policy document that would help make a reality the vision painted by the delegates. In closing the symposium, NTJWG Chairperson Mr. Alec Muchadehama said that the goal of a transitional justice policy for Zimbabwe is to build a national architecture for compassion. “A transitional justice policy means we want a value system that says ‘the wounded must be healed’ to be Government's way of doing business.” 8 3.4 African Union Adopts the Transitional Justice Policy Framework Before the ink dried on the recommendations of the 2018 Policy Symposium, the African Union in February 2019 adopted the Transitional Justice Policy Framework for Africa, a great leap forward for a continent struggling to rid itself of cyclic violence. Speaking at the adoption of the policy framework, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, his Excellency Mr. Moussa Mahamat Faki had the following to say, This African Union (AU) TJ policy is a direct by-product of the 2006 AU Policy on Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development. It is one of the indirect outputs of Agenda 2063. Although the process of developing the framework started long before the adoption of Agenda 2063, its realization became a reality with full commitment to implementing the above two Aspirations. The adoption of the AUTJ Policy framework comes at the heels of the resolution by stakeholders at the NTJWG Symposium to begin championing to push for a policy for Zimbabwe, creating an opportunity Zimbabwe to deal with the many issues facing it with the support of the African Union. STATE OF TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE IN ZIMBABWE 2018 REPORT NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE WORKING GROUP ZIMBABWE