Abstract

Abstract This chapter explicates the meaning and content of reconciliation as a concept of justice. It explains what is distinctive about political reconciliation. It then describes how the same concept of justice is also a concept of peace and of mercy. It distinguishes reconciliation from other leading notions of justice, most importantly, the liberal peace. Finally, it offers a defense of this concept of justice from the perspective of the first tradition: restorative justice.

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