When war is internecine, passions run especially high. Sometimes such a war leads to mutual exhaustion or even the virtual extermination of one side. Afterwards, agreements between rival parties at such a war's end are difficult at best. Rarely in history have these sorts of conflicts led to a return to the antebellum status quo. History teaches us that the war's winners often change the post-war government and its laws in an effort to heal their nation in the aftermath of internecine conflict, but it usually takes generations to obtain the desired outcome. Historically, success in healing a society has required some form of amnesty, reintegration, and reconciliation (hereafter referred to as "AR2"): the dynamic political process that can bring about change when the military phases of civil wars end.
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