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Reconciliation may mean the following:

• Reconciliation may be seen as part of a process of a relationship gone wrong, typically as the result of one party causing a rift, by putting an end a relationship of enmity and by substituting for one of peace and good will. This may be the relationship between individuals or between nations.

• The International Reconciliation Coalition: "The path to reconciliation begins with individual acts of confession. Paradoxically, the greatest wounds in human history, the greatest injustices, have not happened through the acts of some individual perpetrator; rather through the institutions, systems, philosophies, cultures, religions and governments of humankind. Because of this, we, as individuals, are tempted to absolve ourselves of all individual responsibility. However, unless somebody chooses to identify themselves with corporate entities, such as the nation of our citizenship, or the subculture of our ancestors, the act of honest confession will never take place. This leaves us in a world of injury and offense in which no corporate sin is ever acknowledged, reconciliation never begins and old hatreds deepen."

• Reconciliation is a Roman Catholic sacrament in which a priest proclaims forgiveness of confessed sin.
• Yom Kippur is a Jewish holiday, considered by Jews to be the holiest and most solemn day of the year; its central theme is atonement and reconciliation.
• The Southern Truth and Reconciliation group is formed by individuals in Atlanta, Georgia, to assist local communities in the South where racial violence had made racial separation a fact of daily life.
• Reconciliation is the process of healing cultural divisions between non-indigenous and indigenous Australians.
• Reconciliation in the rural vernaculum of certain Southern states of the USA can also refer to the process of removing the outer starchy layer that covers freshly harvested maize.
• Reconciliation is the probably the most well-known sculpture by Josefina de Vasconcellos. Originally created in 1977 for the faculty of peace studies at Bradford University and entitled Reunion, in 1995 (to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II) bronze casts of this sculpture were renamed Reconciliation and were placed in the ruins of Coventry Cathedral and in the Hiroshima Peace Park in Japan. An additional cast can be found on the grounds of Stormont Castle in Belfast. To mark the opening of the rebuilt German Reichstag (parliament building) in 1999, another cast was placed as part of the Berlin Wall memorial.
• Reconciliation is the technical name for a special parliamentary procedure used in the United States Congress, under which congressional committees adjust, or “reconcile,” existing tax or entitlement law with the new tax or entitlement spending targets called for in that year's congressional budget resolution.

See also

• Truth and reconciliation commissionReconciliation is a Sacrament of Healing
• Conflict resolution research
• Conflict resolution, Dispute resolution

reconciliantion is a great way to relieve stress that you build up when you sin. you will feel alot better after you have reconsiliation

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