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the NPRC
0%
8%
Conducting awareness campaigns and
information dissemination
1%
8%
Being inclusive
5%
Engaging, consulting and collaborating with
other stakeholders like the community
11%
Being totally independent
11%
Ensuring transparency, accountability and truth
telling
Facilitating compensation and healing of
victims of political violence
9%
5%
Promoting peace, unity and dialogue
Promoting justice
Start income generating projects for the
affected communities
15%
18%
Help stop political violence and electoral
malpractices
Facilitating change
9%
In view of the above chart (figure 2), 18%
of the respondents mentioned they want
to see the NPRC promoting peace, unity
and dialogue while 15% of the respondents
want to see the Commission facilitating
transparency, accountability and truthtelling. However, less than 1% of the total
participants expected the NPRC to facilitate
compensation and healing of victims of
political violence.
Decentralising NPRC operations
It was noticeable that respondents who
mentioned that they want to see the
NPRC facilitating change were referring
to the transformation of government by
ushering in a new government system
while those who want to see the NPRC
encouraging decentralisation were calling
for the implementation of constitutional
provisions (section 264) requiring the
government to devolve its power to
provincial governments.
5.4.2 The Place for Justice in the Reconciliation Framework
HZT solicited what respondents would
consider to be the place of justice within
the reconciliation framework and how they
wish to see justice being dispensed during
the process of implementing reconciliation
interventions. Responses from some
research participants indicated that justice
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is not the same for everyone and it is
not just about going to courts when a
conviction and sentence will be passed.
One respondent indicated that: “Justice,
yes but not everyone wants to go to the
courts, for example, if I lost ‘my road-runner
chicken’. For women these possessions are
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