Yet it is now uncomfortably aware that there can be no final reconciliation without truth.
"You cannot do reconciliation without Pakistan, but also they can be a spoiler," said one European diplomat in the region.
During this estrangement, neither party talks directly to the other, nor can either agree to a reconciliation without showing weakness and admitting fault.
"No one could raise the theme of reconciliation without the veterans who paid the price of the war," said Mr. Muller, a paraplegic.
He urged nations racked by violence to meet the "legitimate demands of the people and to achieve national reconciliation (without) foreign interference or outside agendas".
As the UN prepared to evacuate refugees from the capital, Monrovia, Mr Taylor's "special emissary" tried to negotiate a process of "national reconciliation" without retribution.
Their next task is to figure out how best to consolidate the gains, because reconciliation without consolidation risks losing it all.
4. (S) Kayani said the most important element for the US in Afghanistan, and for Pakistan, was a &perception of winning.8 There was no incentive for either reintegration or reconciliation without it.
The precedent of his mother's commission is not encouraging, but he expects results, stridently warning "those who are talking about reconciliation" that past corruption cannot simply be forgotten, because "there can be no reconciliation without justice".Mr Aquino's mother also failed to solve the many other problems that bedevil the country.
In his three years in office, Dr Williams - still regarded with suspicion by some Anglicans for his personal sympathy towards gay people in his earlier career - has been careful to be even-handed and to plead for reconciliation, without noticeable result.
