ABSTRACT
This chapter uses existing literature, survey questionnaires, interviews, statistical analysis and qualitative analysis to demonstrate how Sulha uses a gradual re-integrative honouring process, utilizing task-specific mediation, arbitration and improvisation tools to facilitate the restoration of the victim clan's sense of honour while maintaining that of the perpetrator's clan, so as to effect a transformation from a desire to avenge to a willingness to forgive. The Sulha is the most ubiquitous customary justice mechanism in the Muslim or Arab world in general and within Muslim or Arab communities in northern Israel in particular. It is designed to facilitate reconciliation across many types of disputes, from simple honour-affecting insults like the pushing of the man's wife, through property disputes, to assaults and murders. The severity of the offence is measured by its potential honour-losing impact and or by its consequent potential to evolve into a much more serious dispute.
