Furthermore, the proceedings appear to have contributed little to reconciliation.
After the extreme rancor of the divorce proceedings, here are potential grounds for amicable reconciliation.
"If the ECCC is to satisfy the demand for justice and reconciliation in Cambodia, it is important for its legal proceedings to be accessible to the general public," said Andrew Mace, the British ambassador to Cambodia.
From her ugly divorce proceedings with Peter Brant (followed by an unexpected reconciliation) to an uncomfortable near-kiss with her teenage son, 44-year-old Seymour has become a bona fide tabloid star.
So far, proceedings have resembled a kind of truth and reconciliation committee, although probably with a bit more of the former than the latter.
In a trial widely condemned abroad as unfair, the six have been convicted of deliberately infecting hundreds of Libyan children with HIV.A national reconciliation conference opened in Somalia's embattled capital, Mogadishu, but proceedings were promptly postponed until the end of the month, with no sign of any progress.
For all these reasons, UNICEF strongly advocates diversion (directing children away from judicial proceedings and towards community solutions), restorative justice (promoting reconciliation, restitution and responsibility through the involvement of the child, family members, victims and communities), and alternatives to custodial sentencing (counselling, probation and community service).
A stage-managed truth-and-reconciliation moment restores harmony to the warring factions and symmetry to the proceedings.
The party also made gestures towards "national reconciliation" by, for example, inviting the armed forces' political proxy, the Union Solidarity and Development Party, to observe proceedings.More problematic, however, was the election of a new 15-person executive committee that will run the party's day-to-day affairs, with Miss Suu Kyi in the chair.
This meeting can precede other self-reflective grace periods and reconciliation meetings or it can mark the official beginning of the separation toward formal divorce proceedings.
