STAKEHOLDERS CONFERENCE on TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PRINCIPLES IN ZIMBABWE v. CONFERENCE REPORT AUGUST 2015 Memorialisation initiatives must assist in the development of people's identity b. Process Related Principles i. Sensitive to context, location and the target audience 42 ii. Memorialisation projects must be implemented with great attention to the context. This must be aligned at different levels – whether they are family projects, community projects, and national projects, regional or international initiatives iii. Memorialisation initiatives must involve the participation of stakeholders and the grassroots. Local communities and all stakeholders must be involved from conception, design, development and implementation of the memorialisation initiatives. iv. A memorialisation initiative must explicitly show acknowledgment for past wrongs but should be sensitive to the context. v. In designing memorialisation projects, survivors and victims must play a leading role, and their best interests must take priority. This is linked to the principle of stakeholder participation but goes on to focus on victims and their varied needs. vi. Memorialisation projects must be carried out with extreme caution, and experts must be involved especially experts from the affected groups who share and understand the circumstances of affected communities. In areas like exhumations that require international expertise, such experts must be brought into the matter. In private matters affecting