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  1. “With a specific focus on insider reconcilers, we facilitate collaboration among scholars and practitioners, examining how faith and indigenous narratives mitigate conflicts and heal community relationships. We remain available to assist the United Nations in its mission to advance the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, particularly Goal 16, on peace, justice and strong institutions.”

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  2. “Faith can be a significant inspiration for reconciliation, but its manipulation can also lead to further division, hatred or violence. Like all other actors, faith actors need to be scrutinized according to their actions, and that is what research, monitoring impact and evaluation help to accomplish. Reconciliation can be effective only when it is deeply contextual. Sometimes the traditions that heal relationships may, unfortunately, need to be revitalized. That is where knowledge of local actors is critical, and building networks of actors and good practices could inspire others. At the School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University, and its newly founded Mary Hoch Center for Reconciliation, we undertake research on locally led reconciliation practices.”

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  3. “Our activities as politicians, diplomats, civil society workers, academics, the media and the private sector should engender trust, compromise and cooperation. Reconciliation matters because if individual and collective traumas are not addressed, residual grievances can provide a basis for self-perpetuating cycles of violence among future generations. For divided societies to heal and come together, we need strategies in place that enable us to negotiate past grievances, and allow us to reflect upon how memories and emotions force the past to become the politics of the present. Designing effective reconciliation requires the involvement of relevant local actors, particularly women and young people. As members of the international community, we should faithfully support the processes that we help to design.”

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  4. “Different attempts at reconciliation - whether they focus on truth finding, reparations, education, peace journalism, addressing past grievances or writing a common history - should all be interlinked and connected to the wider socioeconomic and political realities of post- conflict societies. Let us not forget that reconciliation is a process, not just a programme. Finally, we must not think that reconciliation happens only after violent conflict. It needs to happen all the time and everywhere - sometimes even as the first option to achieve peace. In today's world many societies are deeply divided along religious, political, ethnic, racial or economic fault lines. Our politics are divisive. Therefore, we need to reduce prejudices, challenge stereotypes and tackle dehumanization. We need to support everyday peace and reconciliation.”

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  5. “Fourthly, financial support and projects become helpful only when they are part of a larger, locally designed and led process. The United Nations and its Member States have to increase funding, but must also make it more flexible. Effective reconciliation requires agility to react to changing situations and longevity, which project cycles rarely enable. That is particularly important to ensure the full participation of women and young people, as they tend to be excluded and marginalized in wider peacebuilding processes. Without women and young people, reconciliation can never be successful. Fifthly, it is important to remember that launching a truth and reconciliation commission is not enough, although it is often necessary to address past injustices and establish what happened.”

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  6. “Thirdly, different dimensions of reconciliation - interpersonal, intergroup or inter-State - demand different types of engagement. Accordingly, we need to consider different types of local actors. Local authorities and municipalities, and their potential power as insider reconcilers, are often overlooked. For example, the city of Coventry in the United Kingdom, which was badly bombed during the Second World War, led an amazing mission of reconciliation and worked with the war-torn cities of iron curtain countries, such as Dresden, Belgrade and Warsaw, during the Cold War years. Let us recognize the bravery and foresight of insider reconcilers such as Provost Howard, who, immediately following the bombing ofCoventry Cathedral, called for reconciliation rather than revenge.”

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  7. “Instead, the international community built an almost identical copy of the bridge, which was indeed a great success, but without giving Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks an opportunity to build bridges of trust during its reconstruction. Secondly, reconciliation should always be based on local approaches, local vocabulary and, most important, local actors. Too often, however, their efforts are dismissed by political actors. Nevertheless, it is only through local approaches that we stand a chance to engage the deep emotional wounds left by conflict. Let us remember that emotions are not just private reactions, but also the basis of sociopolitical forces that are critical for the construction of identity and community. Therefore, it is important to consider reconciliation as a way of recasting the emotional legacies of conflict.”

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  8. “We should also remember that successful reconciliation is both an outcome and a process. As an outcome, it consists of mutual trust, recognition and acceptance, as well as sensitivity and consideration for the other party's needs and interests. As a process, it would need to incorporate wide-ranging changes, both structural and psychological. What have we learned from our reconciliation experiences over the years? First of all, reconciliation should be a transformational experience - not about learning how to forgive and forget, but how to remember and change. The rebuilding of Stari Most, the famous footbridge in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, could have been a great opportunity for such a transformational experience.”

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  9. “For parents whose children were taken in a raid, it might mean discovering what happened to them and seeing the perpetrators brought to justice. For newly installed national leaders, the emphasis might be on expedience, burying the past in order to focus on the urgent challenges of the present. For ex-combatants, reconciliation might be their ticket to forgiveness or a fresh start. That is why reconciliation needs to be a tailor- made process, agile enough to adapt to changing socioeconomic and political post-conflict dynamics. In other words, from a minimalist perspective, reconciliation could be about achieving the objective of coexistence, whereas a maximalist approach emphasizes the importance of forgiveness, dealing with the past and rebuilding trust.”

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  10. “Victims, perpetrators and others in war-affected communities begin the formidable task of reconciling with one another, politically and interpersonally, reframing and rehumanizing their opposite numbers, rebuilding trust and accountability and coming to terms with legacies of the past. Therefore, reconciliation is a process of restoring broken relationships, and has to engage deep-seated wounds of conflict. Reconciliation is also about learning to live non-violently with radical differences. However, post-conflict societies consist of large and disparate groups of actors with different experiences of the conflict and with different cultural codes and values. It is therefore unsurprising that the concept of reconciliation means different things to different people.”

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  11. “Mr. Ozerdem: I am honoured to be here with everyone today and grateful for the opportunity to address the Security Council. Allow me to express my sincere thanks to the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom, Her Excellency Ms. Karen Pierce, for her invitation for me to speak in this open debate on the issue of reconciliation. Reconciliation is one of the main factors in gaining and sustaining peace. Allow me to spend a few moments sharing with the Council why reconciliation is so important for achieving lasting peace. One of the tragic ironies of wars is that is that, when they come to an end, to achieve lasting peace, people on all sides must learn to live together.”

    2019-11-19 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.8668 (2019) · source