"The big goal is reconciliation, but there can be partial solutions that help heal the wounds".
"Our primary goal — political reconciliation — is still out of reach, and Iraqi security forces have not met the responsibilities the president himself laid out for them when he announced his escalation strategy in January".
The future will never be free of conflict, so an appropriate goal of reconciliation processes is to establish norms for resolving disagreements in a peaceful, just and equitable manner.
McGary argues that this forward-looking goal of reconciliation can insultingly suggest that a concern for justice is an insufficient reason to compensate the victim that justice for these victims is only worth securing when it is also in the interest of the wrongdoers.
Madiba, as he is affectionately called in South Africa, was jailed for 27 years on Robben Island, and when he became President his main goal was reconciliation, not revenge.
But despite the lofty goals of reconciliation, sourness permeated the debate.
"They serve to perpetuate systemic discrimination in our justice system and are inconsistent with the goals of reconciliation set out in the Truth and Reconciliation Report," said BCCLA lawyer Laura Track.
Complex criminal trials of military commanders and political leaders have not provided a ready vehicle for the broad goals of reconciliation and quick deterrence.
Prayuth insists his only goal is national reconciliation.
The administration, officials said, was already moving away from this counterinsurgency strategy, toward one with more limited objectives for Afghanistan and a goal of political reconciliation with the Taliban, which once offered Al Qaeda sanctuary there.
