HEAL ZIMBABWE - BASELINE STUDY REPORT Table 5 above shows that respondents from different provinces had their own key reconciliation issues. For example, respondents from Manicaland, Mashonaland East, Mashonaland West, Mashonaland Central, the Midlands and Masvingo provinces mentioned political and electoral violence as their major reconciliation issue while those from Matabeleland South and Bulawayo metropolitan provinces mentioned Gukurahundi as their key 5.4 reconciliation issue. Respondents from Matabeleland South mentioned tribal and ethnic conflict as their major reconciliation issue while Harare province mentioned economic disintegration as the major reconciliation issue. This observation suggests that the entry points for peace and reconciliation interventions in each province should be differentiated, taking into consideration each area’s priority reconciliation issue. Designing a Possible Framework for the NPRC Based on the analysis of the data gathered in this study, this section presents an ideal National Peace and Reconciliation framework, reflecting the views of those interviewed. The respondents’ views were shaped by their experiences from past reconciliation efforts such as Prime Minister’s reconciliation proclamation decree (1980), the Unity Accord (1987), and Global Political Agreement (2008) and socio-political dynamics of traditional reconciliation processes in Zimbabwe. All the respondents raised concerns over the environmental factors (mainly political interference) that could affect the effectiveness of the Commission. 5.4.1 Ideal Peace and Reconciliation Framework Both focus group participants and interviewees had difficulties to express what they consider an ideal peace and reconciliation process. Within one focus group in Tsholotsho, participants concurred that “there is not any ideal peace and reconciliation framework because of the unpredictability of the political situation in the country.”54 However, participants reflected on a variety of interventions, processes and actions that could be considered for an ideal peace and reconciliation framework. These considerations can be categorised into three areas namely: (i) Institutional/ Structural (ii) Operational and (iii) Programmatic concerns. Institutional considerations focus on the infrastructural architecture of the commission itself; process considerations detail community expectations in the commission’s operational methodologies whilst programmatic considerations describe key activities that the commission needs to implement in order to facilitate national peace, healing and reconciliation. Focus group discussion with participants in Tsholotsho on the 2nd of June 2016 54 31