that the speakers came from this party. The MDC-T got 8 mentions, and chiefs 7. 35 respondents did not know what the affiliation of the speakers was. Time and timing for discussions and participants’ preparation for the COPAC discussions Based on discussions with NGOs prior to this survey, it had been expected that many participants may have felt done in, through too little time for participation and ‘silent intimidation’, or through cameras recording the proceedings. Participants were next asked whether they had felt comfortable participating in the COPAC meeting with cameras rolling to record the proceedings. Here 104 of the 288 participants reported that there were no cameras recording the proceedings. Of the 184 remaining participants, 158 reported that they had felt comfortable. 72% of the participants reckoned that enough time had been given for discussions the COPAC outreach meetings [Q22I]. Violence in the COPAC process Despite some expectations that the COPAC process would be violent, due to the contested nature of a new constitution and politicisation of the process, the survey trend was one of relative contentment with the process, and observations that violence only played a small role in it [Q28]. This was the case in both rural and urban areas, and across the provinces. Harare province reported the highest incidence of violence in the COPAC process, but this was also the only province in which large proportions of the respondents did not opt out of the question through ‘not applicable’ (potentially escapist) answers. Of MDC-T supporters, 13% reported having witnessed violence being used in the process, whilst 4% of ZANU-PF supporters reported such sightings. There was no detectable difference in responses between the supporters of the two main political parties on the bulk of the constitutional outreach issues covered in this section. On all of the items regarding experiences of the COPAC process, the differences were within marginof-error range, except on the probably minor question of whether enough time had been given for the discussions. The issues that COPAC dealt with Of those Zimbabweans that had engaged with the questions posed by COPAC, only about one-fifth reckoned that the questions had failed to capture community concerns [Q24A]. Hence there was a fair amount of satisfaction with the questions. In addition, it was roughly the same proportion of respondents that felt the questions were posed in a clear and concise manner [Q24B]. 42