There are certainly real-world tensions between pursuing both 'peace' and 'justice'. In some cases, the price of peace is accepting that justice might need to be stayed against important stakeholders, although some aggrieved parties will simply not be able to contemplate peace without justice being seen to be done. To simply place prosecutorial justice and the attainment of peace 'into opposed, abstract categories' comes at the expense of 'an informed analysis of where tensions do, and do not, exist on the ground'. 38 A Neier, 'What Should Be Done About the Guilty?', (1990) 37 New York Review Books at 32. 19

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