Fostering reconciliation through public truth-telling processes has become a central part of post-conflict peacebuilding. This book offers a new and critical perspective on global reconciliation technology by highlighting its contingent and highly political character as a post-conflict practice. The authority of reconciliation in global politics is shown to be the contingent result of a powerful reconciliation discourse that was unleashed by the South African reconciliation process in the mid 1990s and has since proliferated around the world, centrally propelled by the transitional justice debate. The book then moves on to demonstrate how implementing reconciliation in post-conflict societies is a highly political practice which entails potentially undesirable consequences for post-conflict societies. Specifically, the book shows how the reconciliation discourse brings about the marginalisation and neutralisation of political claims and identities of local post-conflict populations by producing these societies as one composed of the 'victims' and 'perpetrators' of past human rights violations which are first and foremost in need of reconciliation and healing. This book will interest students and teachers of transitional justice and international relations, particularly those who are keen to examine the global reconciliation practice and post-conflict peacebuilding from a critical point of view.