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towards lasting peace. To gain interpersonal relationships, this definition focuses on
the critical building blocks in the post-conflict reconciliation. It acts on changes in

emotion all attitudes and behaviour. The definition emphasizes that reconciliation is
a social process after an armed struggle and works on differences within and

between former riotous groups after ending the war. Eventually, it shows that
reconciliation is a process not a specific situation at a particular moment in future.

This definition is parallel to the others who see reconciliation as a pragmatic process

in which relations are rebuilt to enable coexistence and sustainable peace. According
to the responses, and it could be identified that before the war, there had been a

friendly relationship among the people of this area. These people are waiting to
build such a relationship that they had maintained before the black July in 1983.

According to the social identity theory, people get much of their identity from the

groups they belong to. The significance of having a positive self-image is very

essential for humans and by comparison with other groups. This target is obtained
by accessing once in the group more reasonably than out of the group related to the

significant problems. By bearing the similar beliefs and sharing their thoughts of the
group system be a part of that favourable group.

War memories can be affected in various ways. First, in what way the consequences,

the communities remember the violent past and how memories of the war can fuel

conflict or, in another way, how it can be brought under peace and reconciliation and
how to deal with painful memories. It is affirmed that way, and not much revealed

how the war memories were instrumented in mode to evoke the bitter past, to create
conflicts. It instigates ethnic disruptions among the harmonious people who lived

together for years. The memories are significant in the period of transitional justice
towards a reconciliation process. The memorialization process is a critical

consideration in the process of transitional justice. The context of healing is another

important phenomenon in the process of reconciliation. The memorialization is very

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