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The reconciliation process—evolving from a policy of mercy to a policy of civil concord and then of amnesty—avoided any actual return on the 1990s civil war and its actors, any search of the responsibilities. Criticized for this reason almost everywhere in the country, the process can thus only fail to rebuild the collective imagination, made of shared images and events, which would be the only way to revive a violently broken social link.Abderrahmane Moussaoui is a teacher at Université d'Aix-en-Provence and researcher (CNRS/MMSH) at Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne et comparative (IDEMEC)