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Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.

Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.

In the last twelve years, we have come some distance towards reconciliation and the breaking down of disadvantage. Let us take encouragement from what has been achieved and set our minds and hearts to end the remaining roadblocks.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

Reconciliation is what takes place, of course, at higher levels. President Karzai has been very clear about the red lines for reconciliation, accept the constitution, lay down their weapons, cut their ties with al Qaeda and essentially become productive or at least participating members of society in that regard.

We have to support truth and reconciliation and some form of justice.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation.