suitable for meaningful engagement on all topics of transitional justice. In the end, the actual attendance averaged 43 participants per meeting. The lowest number of participants was 14 in Muzarabani constituency at Saint Albert’s Hospital, and the highest was at Ngonidzashe Council Hall in Norton, Mashonaland West, where there were 142 participants. The youngest participant was a 13-year-old girl in Lupane East and the oldest was a 94-year-old man in Gokwe-Kana. All the meetings were facilitated by persons who were trained in Transitional Justice mechanisms. These facilitators were drawn from member and partner organizations in all provinces. These facilitators worked closely with local co-ordinators. Thus facilitators and co-ordinators held meetings in their own home areas where they related well with communities such that members of the public could participate freely. The meetings were consultative in nature. The facilitator would give a brief history of conflict in Zimbabwe, introduce the concept of transitional justice without giving a lecture on what must or must not be done. The introduction served to place the discussion in context and set the ball rolling on the possible avenues available to a society that is emerging from conflict. The participants were then invited to reflect in groups on their current state. As groups, they went on to make recommendations on how to build peace and say “Never Again!” to violence. These are the recommendations that form the crux of this report. After the groups had made their recommendations, the facilitators went on to look at them and classify them into various topics for further discussion. These are the topics that fall under the heading “Recommendations”. The facilitators then made detailed presentations on each topic, touching on the international experiences of other societies and interrogating various ways of dealing with possible obstacles. After the detailed discussions, the facilitators invited any afterthoughts from the participants. All contributions from individual responses to group discussions were recorded and reports were compiled immediately after each meeting. 3. Structure of Individual Reports The individual reports for each meeting have been recorded in the same format for easy reading. The headings vary with the participants’ suggestions which differed at each meeting. The percentage attendance by women is noted under the heading “Sex”. It is the perception of the Forum that women face many obstacles to free expression and any transitional justice process must be gender sensitive. Thus in this outreach the Forum sought to monitor the participation of women as the starting point of driving towards engendering transitional justice. All views have been faithfully recorded from each meeting in the language used by the participants. Wherever a group or an individual participant has made a recommendation or expressed an opinion, his/her identity or group is indicated at the end of the statement. Unattributed recommendations indicate the views expressed by the meeting in general. All quotations have been recorded verbatim. Taking Transitional Justice to the People – Outreach Report 15