This book focuses on reconciliation in Northern Ireland and South Africa. The overarching aim is to identify -formal and material conditions-, or prerequisites, for reconciliation and moral community (or more precisely a -shared moral landscape-). In both countries obstacles to reconciliation can be found in the following elements of a -moral landscape-: Experiences of trauma, separation and inequalities; divergent views of the conflict and of -the other-; opposing identifications and loyalties; certain norms for interaction and contestant interpretations of values such as -peace- and...