Heal Zimbabwe Trust and its Contribution to National Peace and Reconciliation Heal Zimbabwe’s vision centres on building a peaceful, inclusivity and tolerant society. We envision a, ‘socially cohesive nation that enjoys tolerance, peace, and prosperity at all tiers of the society’. Heal Zimbabwe’s mission is to ‘promote tolerance, peace and inclusive prosperity hinged on the observance of socio-economic and political rights of Zimbabwean citizens. Since its establishment in 2010, Heal Zimbabwe has rights violations, implemented peacebuilding interventions and supported victims and survivors of violence with livelihoods enhancement projects. The organisation created a niche in working at lowest community level through the establishment of community peacebuilding structures (community peace clubs), training human rights monitors and supporting Community Based Organisations to mainstream peacebuilding and championing human rights protection. Besides working in rural areas that were most year 2000, the organisation successfully campaigned for the operationalization of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission which has the mandate to deal with dealing with past human rights violations and preventing recurrence of human rights violations. The establishment of the NPRC, through the constitution adopted in 2013, as an independent commission for post conflict justice inspired HZT to accelerate its work towards peace and reconciliation within local communities. The organisation sees this as an opportunity to promote peaceful coexistence but more importantly, to assist communities in living beyond their past. As such, the baseline study presented in this report is an important step towards enhancing understanding about HZT’s future peace building programming and transitional justice processes in Zimbabwe. ISBN EAN 9780797493292 Design and Print by Sable Press (Pvt) Ltd