This chapter looks at the 1990s, when state makers argued that the limits of earlier truth and retributive justice policies had been reached, replacing them with a new transitional justice policy based around the concept of reconciliation. Reconciliation emphasized amnesty rather than retributive justice, and was shaped by ideas around democratization that emphasized the need to reach an agreement with the armed forces lest democratic stability be threatened. It shows how in practice reconciliation was used by the state as a way to address current political conflicts, using the threat of instability to legitimize curtailing the political protagonism of human rights groups and the judiciary.