ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the issues of the limits of constitutional deliberations and constitutional forms of accommodation in order to emphasize the limits of legal and juridical conversations and dialogue, and the trajectory dialogic politics has to take towards ensuring minimal justice. Dialogue is thus less a matter of ideal than of contention. This is what makes it the wild spring, beyond training, familiarization courses on meetings, conventions, assemblies, and drafting of treaties and laws, capsules of conversational techniques, and etiquettes of diplomats and conflict resolution specialists. Dialogue as opposed to war and as the route to peace politically aims at making relations stable by means of law and constitutional forms. Dialogue emerges from two phenomena - formation of states and constitutions, and the geopolitical realities of partition, war and peace marked by the reproduction of these conditions. A dialogic act is never about reaching truth, but about determining the relation of the dialogists with truth.
