While confrontation of the committed atrocities can be a tough process in which the victim feels humiliated again by reliving the traumatic past, it still has a benign therapeutic effect, helping both victim and perpetrator groups to come to terms with the past. From a therapeutic point of view, letting the victim confront the past atrocity and its related painful memories is one way to reach a closure and to understand that the harm has occurred in the past. This also helps the memories to enter the shared narrative of the society, thereby becoming a common ground on which the society can make future decisions on, in political and cultural matters.
While confrontation of the committed atrocities can be a tough process in which the victim feels humiliated again by reliving the traumatic past it still has a benign therapeutic effect helping both victim and perpetrator groups to come to terms with the past From a therapeutic point of view letting the victim confront the past atrocity and its related painful memories is one way to reach a closure and to understand that the harm has occurred in the past This also helps the memories to enter the shared narrative of the society thereby becoming a common ground on which the society can make future decisions on in political and cultural matters