Mandela’s second peace: As Qaddafi refused to hand over Lockerbie suspects to the international community, intervention came from an unexpected source in 1997: South African President Nelson Mandela, whose own African Congress movement received funding from Qaddafi prior to the end of apartheid. Presenting the Libyan strongman with South Africa’s highest honor, the Order of Good Hope medal, during a visit to Tripoli, Mandela used his personal relationship and “track two” diplomacy with the United States and Britain to convince Qaddafi to hand over the suspects.