i re hat o nitie ant to ee one i erentl 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 36 RECONCILIATION PROCESSES IN ZIMBABWE 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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