Healing through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; Journal Entry; Introduction; History of the Cyprus Conflict; Purpose Statement; Significance of the Study; Limitations of the Study; Context of the Study; Missing Persons in a Global Context; Missing Persons in a Cypriot Context and Some Challenges for the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus; Framework of the Study; Conclusion; 2 Literature Review; Journal Entry; Introduction; Basic Human Needs; Psychological Ideas and Trauma; Peacebuilding as Sustainable Reconciliation and Restorative Justice; Restorative Justice; Storytelling; Conclusion

3 MethodologyJournal Entry; Introduction; Research Location; Qualitative Research Strategy; Semi-structured Interviewing; Role of the Researcher; Data Gathering Techniques; Data Analysis and Grounded Theory; Study Participants; Problems/Challenges Encountered Conducting Research; Conclusion; 4 Uncertainty and Psychology; Journal Entry; Introduction; Uncertainty and Knowledge of Death; Uncertainty and Closure; Uncertainty and Burial; Uncertainty and Time; Psychology and Time; Psychological Healing and Catharsis; Psychological Relief; Psychological Closure; Psychologically Shared Suffering

Victimization and Psychological Transgenerational Transmission of TraumaConclusion and Summary of Key Findings; 5 Bicommunal Relations; Journal Entry; Introduction; Percentage of the Missing; List Agreement and Bicommunal Challenges; Bicommunal Contact and Time; Bicommunal CMP Organization and Inter-ethnic Friendship Development; Bicommunal Leadership; Conclusion and Summary of Key Findings; 6 Storytelling-Even the Dead Have a Voice; Journal Entry; Introduction; What Is Storytelling?; The Bones as Story; Storytelling and Information; Constructive Storytelling

Storytelling and Historical Non-reoccurrence of ViolenceConclusion and Summary of Key Findings; 7 A Common Future; Introduction; Empowerment and Uncertainty; Challenges of the Process of Exhumations; Conclusion and Future Research; Appendix A Research Questions; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; References; Index; About the Author

This study explores an effect of violent conflict in Cyprus-Missing Persons-and the process of exhumations. By interviewing experts on the Cypriot conflict about the exhumations process, Fics has revealed the challenges and successes that may arise for sustainable peace and healing in Cyprus and beyond.

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