Baraza is a social justice innovation that aims to facilitate conflict resolution at the domestic level and among community members. Baraza, presented as an android application, will allow community members seek an audience with their area chief or local administration from within the application for disputes or issues they want resolved. Additionally, they should be able to seek professional legal council from within the application.

Traditionally, dispute resolution has worked in the following ways:

1. Aggreived party approaches relevant (local) authority figure, reports dispute.
2. Authority figure either summons both the aggreived party and the aggrevator, sits both down to a face-to-face meeting.
3. In face-to-face meeting, a resolution is passed by the authority figure.

The Baraza mobile application will digitize this process. The application allows a user to report a dispute arising, allows the local authority figure(chief) to see reported disputes relevant to their areas, and allows the chief to perform some action as per the dipute either pass a resolution from within the application or summon the parties. The passed resolution, either in person or throught the application is recorded by the dispute and records kept.

The baraza application is organized in the following ways:

1. develop branch - this holds the code for the baraza application.
2. docs branch - this holds the documentation. Dexcription for how the application works will be found here

Thanks for your interest in contributing to Baraza! There are many ways to contribute. To get started, take a look at CONTRIBUTING.md.

This project adheres to a code of conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to [email protected] .

Join us at the Mozilla Global Sprint June 1-2, 2017! We'll be gathering in-person at sites around the world and online to collaborate on this project and learn from each other.