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.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.
Reconciliation requires changes of heart and spirit, as well as social and economic change. It requires symbolic as well as practical action.
The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
In order to establish peace, you must have fair justice for everyone.
If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace.
Peace is a question of will. All conflicts can be settled, and there are no excuses for allowing them to become eternal.
There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.