ABSTRACT
This chapter unpacks the fundamental issues that undergird such efforts and describes a model of key elements of processes that regulate reconciling and peacebuilding. To understand Syrian refugees' feelings about forgiveness, reconciliation and revenge, the people must first understand that the traumatic events they endured were of a magnitude far greater in number and in kind than those typical in life without combat. In other words, it would require the construction of a model in which the people could "grow" reconciliation and peace between two or more diverse groups from the micro-level behaviors and interactions of agents within those simulated societies. Call it reconciliation-by-force of a superordinate value that sets a common goal that if unmet, kills all as one. Once appropriately validated, the people could explore the parameter space of the model to discover the relations among the relevant variables and the distributions and conditions under which reconciliation and peace processes are likely to occur (or not).
