After war and mass atrocity, memories of violence, injustice and fear are part of the structure of peace and inscribed in individuals and collectives. How the past is articulated influences the construction of peace and the process of redefining and reworking antagonistic relationships. This chapter investigates the role of memory politics in reconciliation processes. Through illustrative examples from societies dealing with the legacies of collective trauma and violence, it calls into question some of the generalized, homogenizing imaginary of reconciliation and demonstrates that an analysis of the relationship between reconciliation and memory has to take into account practices of power and justice. Engagements with the past can both enable and disable reconciliation processes and reconciliation involves an intricate interplay between remembering and forgetting.