At the international level, the United Nations is promoting similar objective...

At the international level, the United Nations is promoting similar objectives through a wide range of instruments available to it in dealing with the aftermath of conflict. Those include support for transitional justice and the rule of law, for political dialogue and mediation, for truth-telling processes, for reparations, for institutional reform, and for the role of women in the renewal and rebuilding of societies emerging from conflict. In such situations, the United Nations has the potential to deliver profound benefits, defusing tensions between communities at the local level through concrete actions that it supports and by thereby easing and accelerating the essential work of national reconciliation.