Research and Discussion Paper on a TJ Framework for Zimbabwe government, Zimbabwe was and still is being ruled by one and the same party, the ZANUPF. After factionalism within the party, the military staged a silent coup d’état and replaced the President of Zimbabwe since independence, Robert Mugabe, with a new President, Emerson Manangagwa, who was always part of the establishment and also alleged to have been involved especially in the Gukurahundi atrocities. With this background it will be very difficult to see a positive development in the transitional justice process and mechanisms in Zimbabwe. However, some argue that, despite the political system being the same and being governed by the same elites, some of these elites may champion some form of change33. This positive tendency could be observed in some acts by the Zimbabwean state, e.g. the incorporation of the NPRC in the new 2013 constitution and the establishment of the commission of inquiry on the post-2018-election violence. The swisspeace model is a guide on the content, mechanisms and objectives of transitional, that it can be used adopting it for the Zimbabwean situation. Concerning the ATJF, the comprehensive list of possible transitional justice measures, its open model character and the entrenchment of African shared values makes it ideal for its “adaptive” application in the development of a framework for Zimbabwe with its own history, culture and environment. 33 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/wp82_notes_on_transitions_from_authoritarian_rule_in_l atin_america_and_latin_europe.pdf 18 DRAFT