About Us

VISION

Peace in our communities and beyond.

MISSION

Facilitate the promotion and strengthening of peace building mechanisms as well as empowering communities and vulnerable individuals to ensure the constructive transformation of conflicts for sustainable peace and development.

 Overall Goal

Harness and strengthen peace building efforts through the development of capacities in various entities.

1. Facilitate capacity building and nurture trust building between the state and non-state actors involved in peace building through consensus building programs.
2. Strengthen capacities of peace building institutions in facilitating processes that promote restorative justice, healing, reconciliation, social cohesion and closure.
3. Promote gender mainstreaming in peacebuilding research, programming, monitoring, and learning accountability and evaluation processes in Zimbabwe.
4. Strengthen the capacities of traditional and religious institutions by using Afro centric and Ubuntu concepts of dispute resolution.
5. Promote social cohesion at grassroots level by enhancing capacities of communities in building and mending broken relationships through use of sports, income generating projects and other relevant programs.
6. Provide support to constitutional bodies, government agencies and other state funded institutions involved in peace building initiatives through census building, synergies and collaborations with national, regional and international partners.
7. Collaborate with schools, colleges, universities and other related institutions in promoting research and mainstreaming Peace Education.
8. Lobby and engage leaders from across the political divide, influential stakeholders, both local and national government, to sustain the culture of tolerance, diversity and co-existence for peace in their communities.

Social justice : We believe that a peaceful society is one that is built on the foundations of social justice. ZPT works to promote economic, social (including racial and ethnic) justice for a peaceful Zimbabwe.

Local Ownership: It is our firm belief that peace processes must be locally led by the people affected by the conflict. To this effect, ZPT’s interventions shall build on existing capacities and never duplicate or displace local initiatives.

Integrity: As ZPT we strive to uphold highest ethical standards as an organisation and as individual members of the secretariat.

Peaceful Transformation: In 1996, renowned scholar in peace and conflict studies, Johan Vincent Galtung published the book ‘Peace by Peaceful Means’. As ZPT we are of the firm belief that any peacebuilding strategy should be hinged on persuasive, non-violent and yet proactive strategies to achieve peace. To this end, our initiatives seek to contribute to achieving justice, including restorative, distributive, and gender, social and environmental justice in peaceful yet persuasive ways.

Accountability and Transparency: We strive to be accountable to our primary stakeholders, partners, donors and to always operate within the confines of the Zimbabwean laws. We are committed to working transparently. If we have specific interests or allegiances, we will declare them and acknowledge how they affect our priorities and approaches.

Gender sensitivity: We firmly believe that a society where there is gender equality is likely to enjoy sustainable peace and development. We believe in gender-sensitive peacebuilding processes that respect and uphold the beauty of diversity. As stated in the Human Development Report (1995) “Human Development, if not engendered, is endangered.”

Sustainability: ZPT commits to the long-standing goal of transforming the conditions that give rise to violent conflict. Our strategies help to foster social change that addresses cultural, structural and relationship challenges generating systemic conflict and to move toward a desired future.

Reflective Learning: We aim to be reflective practitioners: aware of our role, mandate and contribution at every stage. Evaluation and strategic learning, as well as participatory, inclusive and just processes for planning and decision-making, are essential for improving conflict prevention practice and developing accountability.