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who died during the war, collectively shares the pain, sufferings and loses of the lay
people.

The memory and truth are significant to build an era of some transnational justice,

and it will be more helpful to the post-conflict reconciliation process (Laderach,
1997). The transnational justice is understood as the conception of justice associated

with the period of political changes, which is characterized by legal responses to
confront the wrongdoing repressive of the predecessor regimes. Depending on their

nature, the transitional justice mechanism is either perpetrator or victim-oriented

(ibid)

The collective memory provides solidarity and continuity; these groups modify the
memory of the past according to the necessities of the present. This is a dynamic

process of constructing the history, and of generating a collectively shared gift

which is based on an 'agreed' shared past. It was observed that neither the past nor
the present is before each other. It was observed that how the past is active in the

present constructions, notions, and values of present social frameworks, and on the
other hand how the present has control over forming the past about meeting its

current needs. The past and the present are always in interaction in the collective
memory of groups since the continuity and solidarity of groups are essential for their

survival.

The personal memorialization effort, like community initiatives, takes various forms

to express and remind that, which may have forgotten, they hold deep meaning and
personal significance in a way that no other initiative can afford the space to

express. The personal memory initiatives encompass anything about alms giving,

book dedications, art installations, documentations of incidents, photographs, and
storytelling.

Even after a settlement is reached and a peace agreement is signed, this is by no

means the end of the war. The settlement has to be implemented. If it is just a war

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