Following the Israeli withdrawal from south of Lebanon in 2000, the parliament issued Law 364 in 2001 to provide financial compensations to Lebanese detainees released from Israeli prisons. Eligibility for compensation was conditioned to having a detention certificate from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which several former detainees did not hold - particularly those held in the Southern Lebanese Army’s detention centres inaccessible at the time by ICRC. The compensation indemnities were also criticized for being very low compared to the victims’ needs. Similarly, the Lebanese Forces proposed a draft law granting the same right to reparations for former detainees in Syrian prisons. The draft is still debated in the parliament until this day.

The Law 434 in 1995, issued by the Parliament, allowed families of victims of enforced disappearance to record their missing family members as legally deceased if they have been missing for more than four years. The Law offered legal procedures for the families to reclassify the status of their missing family members without any evidence of their death or examination of the whereabouts of their remains. The families of victims of disappearance regarded this law as an attempt to buy their silence which ignored the families right to know the truth and dismissed the possibility of finding missing Lebanese alive in Syrian or Israeli Prisons.

In 2000, the Lebanese Government, headed at the time by Prime Mister Salim El-Hoss, formed 'The Committee of Inquiry in the Fates of the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared' under the pressure of public protests organised by the families of victims of forced disappearance. Two other commissions were formed by consecutive Governments in 2001, and in 2005 in collaboration with the Syrian Government. The commissions recognized the existence of mass graves for the first time, but did not produce any information on the fate of the missing and forcibly disappeared. Referring to the Law 434, the commissions recommended that families can declare their missing family members deceased without evidence of their death or knowing the whereabouts of their remains. The law was rejected by the families of the victims, insisting on their right to know the truth.

The Lebanese Palestinian Dialogue Committee was initiated by a decree of the Lebanese government in 2005 under the title Lebanese Working Group on Palestinian Refugees - Fariq Al-Amal Al-Lobnani Lmo’alajat Qadaya Al-Laje2een Al-Philastinyeen. It is an inter-ministerial government body aiming at restoring the Lebanese-Palestinian relationship by changing stereotypical perspectives, and at establishing a mutual common strategy for the future by recognizing the concerns of both sides. Raised topics were the improvement the humanitarian, social, economical and legal conditions of Palestinians refugees in collaboration with the UNRWA, the dealing with arms inside the camps, and the establishment of diplomatic relations concerning the recognition of the State of Palestine by the international community. The Committee carried out several dialogues at the political level with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)and Hamas. It has been inactive recently and the last report was published in 2009.

In 2005, after the Syrian army withdrew from Lebanon and General Michel Aoun, a prominent figure in last chapters of civil war, returned to Lebanon form exile in France, Leader of the Lebanese Forces Samir Geagea, previously convicted of several assassinations including that of former PM Rachid Karameh, was granted special amnesty under Law 677. Similarly, in order to maintain sectarian equality of impunity, an Islamic militant group in Dinnieh and Majdal Anjar - convicted of clashing with the Lebanese National Army in 1999 and 2000 leaving several soldiers dead – was granted another special amnesty.

Issued by the first post-civil war Lebanese government in August 1991, the General Amnesty Law had retrospectively exempted Lebanese war-protagonists from legal liability for all crimes committed before March 28, 1991.

The Lebanese Government established the Ministry of the Displaced and the Central Fund for the Displaced (CFD) in 1993. The aim has been to support the social and economic conditions (finance housing and rebuilding projects, support reconciliation initiatives, etc.) for Lebanese who have been displaced during and after the civil war to help them return to their abandoned houses and villages in all Lebanese regions. The Ministry and the CFD provide funding and subsidised loans in the form of compensations for victims of displacement to restore or rebuild their homes and to facilitate their return. Although the Ministry was established as a temporary body to compensate victims of the civil war, it has been supporting victims of post-war armed conflicts and Israeli invasions including that of 1996 and 2006.
Reconciliation in Brih: With the creation of the Ministry of Displacement a reconciliation process was launched in Mount Lebanon, sponsored by political and religious leaders. It followed the upsurge of a long-term conflict between residing and displaced communities of the same village over land properties, interpreted as an extension of the legacy of the Civil War. The main challenge was to build trust between the ministerial committee and the communities in Brih, one of the last villages that witnessed the return of its Christian community. As part of the reconciliation process, an event was organised in 2014 and hosted prominent political and religious leaders including former President Suleiman, PSP leader Walid Jumblat, Patriarch Rahi, Sheikh Na’em Hassan, and Druze and Christian families from Brih. The project is still ongoing, and the last event in 2016 featured an inauguration of two churches in the village in efforts to consecrate the return of displaced Christians.

Launched in 1991 following the civil war, the ‘Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration‘ programme aimed to rehabilitate over 50,000 former militia fighters by integrating them in military and administrative positions in public intuitions. The programme has been criticized for being selective and incomplete as many political parties still retain large amounts of weapons.

The Lebanese Foundation of Permanent Civil Peace (LFPCP) launched the programme ‘Monitor of Civil Peace and Memory in Lebanon’, ongoing since 2000. It involved several initiatives and projects, notably the ‘Strengthening Civil Peace’ initiative between 2012 and 2014, which entailed a series of roundtable discussions and seminars on violence and armed conflicts, the memory of the civil war and dealing with the past. Among targeted groups were intellectuals, religious and political leaders, NGOs, businessmen, and journalists. Every session dealt with a specific topic ranging from the role of media in strengthening civil peace to the role of religious leaders and other key actors. The project produced several reports and publications.

The Lebanese Foundation of Permanent Civil Peace (LFPCP) launched the programme ‘Monitor of Civil Peace and Memory in Lebanon’, ongoing since 2000. It involved several initiatives and projects, notably the ‘Strengthening Civil Peace’ initiative between 2012 and 2014, which entailed a series of roundtable discussions and seminars on violence and armed conflicts, the memory of the civil war and dealing with the past. Among targeted groups were intellectuals, religious and political leaders, NGOs, businessmen, and journalists. Every session dealt with a specific topic ranging from the role of media in strengthening civil peace to the role of religious leaders and other key actors. The project produced several reports and publications.