Major General S.B Moyo addressing crowds in Harare during the political transition that removed Mr R.G Mugabe. Source: Al Jazeera/Tendai Marima 10.2. Peace Architecture Institutional Design, Process and Scope Besides institutional readiness, the NPRC processes are anticipated to meet the peoples’ expectations by taking into consideration both victims and perpetrators interests and positions without compromising the objectives of facilitating peace and reconciliation interventions. Therefore, a meaningful national healing and reconciliation processes should allow inclusive citizen engagement, participation and peaceful resolution of disputes. However, such an environment is determined by the peace and reconciliation architectural design, nature of interventions implemented and the attitude of other complementary structures. Below are the study’s observations on popular institutional structure, processes and outcomes. 62 RECONCILIATION PROCESSES IN ZIMBABWE i) Structure of the National Peace Architecture The depth and breadth of the NPRC’s institutional structural design determines its operational independence and accessibility by victims and perpetrators. The study, observed that the communities are happier to have the NPRC reach from the national to the lowest local government levels. The body should set up administrative centres at ward, district, province and national levels. This approach will allow communities to easily access the NPRC services. In addition, a functional peace and reconciliation process would remove bureaucratic challenges especially where the community can address peace and

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