“…However, and notably, his therapeutic order stands alongside and in tension with, the moral framework of punishment, which continues to provide a crucial role in the reordering of postatrocity politics, most notably in the cases of Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and more recently Iraq. As a result, domestic amnesties need strong justifications, such as those found within the therapeutic lexicon, because they are inconsistent with international criminal law and the nascent International Criminal Court (Pensky 2008), the authority of which are entirely reliant upon delivering upon the promise of punishment for perpetrators of the worst crimes. 16 Consequently, theories about war trauma and therapeutic governance are converging, simultaneously, to justify amnesty and to provide the new moral foundations of multiple postconflict orders.…”