How can former enemies, with opposing viewpoints, come together to successfully negotiate the terms for a common future?
Bringing former enemies to the same table to negotiate a common vision of a new society is part of the hard work of transitional justice. These negotiations can be public or private; they can be about high-level issues—how will the government work, or what will the new constitution look like—or they can be about the smallest, seemingly insignificant details. Regardless of what they are about, or how they are conducted, they will always be challenging. Often it is because of the efforts of exceptional individuals such as the man profiled in this reading, that these negotiations can succeed.
