Reconciliation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The reestablishment of friendly relations; conciliation or rapprochement. A Roman Catholic sacrament involving contrition, confession, punishment and absolution; penance. Process of matching and comparing figures from accounting records against those presented on a bank statement.
Example sentence: Disguising your own origins is a deeply American impulse, but that doesn't make it any less compromising. The way I live my life is to try to foreground the tensions and paradoxes of being a white person who's interested in racial justice and reconciliation, rather than disguise or obliterate them.
Rapprochement
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The re-establishment of cordial relations, particularly between two countries; a reconciliation.