Section 252: Functions of National Peace and Reconciliation Commission

The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has the following functions—

    (a) to ensure post-conflict justice, healing and reconciliation;

    (b) to develop and implement programmes to promote national healing, unity and

cohesion in Zimbabwe and the peaceful resolution of disputes;

    (c) to bring about national reconciliation by encouraging people to tell the truth about the

past and facilitating the making of amends and the provision of justice;

    (d) to develop procedures and institutions at a national level to facilitate dialogue among

political parties, communities, organisations and other groups, in order to prevent

conflicts and disputes arising in the future;

    (e) to develop programmes to ensure that persons subjected to persecution, torture and

other forms of abuse receive rehabilitative treatment and support;

    (f) to receive and consider complaints from the public and to take such action in regard to

the complaints as it considers appropriate;

    (g) to develop mechanisms for early detection of areas of potential conflicts and disputes,

and to take appropriate preventive measures;

    (h) to do anything incidental to the prevention of conflict and the promotion of peace;

          (i) to conciliate and mediate disputes among communities, organisations, groups and

individuals; and

    (j) to recommend legislation to ensure that assistance, including documentation, is

rendered to persons affected by conflicts, pandemics or other circumstances.