UNDP announced last week that the consultant would craft a code of conduct manual for Zimbabwe’s feuding political parties and to organise a national healing meeting involving all stakeholders.
The consultant is also expected to advise the organ on development of packages for national healing, reconciliation and integration. Zimbabwe’s national healing process has been dogged by problems and is viewed by most people as an exercise in futility.
The failure by the unity government to come up with transitional justice mechanisms adds to the growing disappointment of victims who have lost faith in the organ.