The dialogue agenda part III: Why talks are going nowhere

It has been said that the absence of war is not the same thing as the presence of justice. This is some of the language that only fleetingly emerged in the national settlement that followed 2007/08 post-election violence. Instead we ended up with the 2008 peace, or political ceasefire, that the Grand Coalition Government of the time represented. We could say the same thing about the Building Bridges "handshake" that followed a decade later; it gave us a fragile peace.