Healing Through the Bones: Empowerment and the Process of Exhumations in the Context of Cyprus - Paperback

by Kristian T. P. Fics (Author)

Violent conflict created a divide in Cyprus (1950-1974) that still exists to this day between Turkish and Greek Cypriots. This study explores specifically an effect of violent conflict--Missing Persons and the bi-communal process of their humanitarian return. This process is important for peacebuilding because it empowers individuals, families, communities, and nation-states to satisfy basic human psycho-social needs in order to deal with the trauma of past violence, to recognize loss and grieve, and to seek closure of uncertainty to prevent the transgenerational transmission of trauma and escalation of violence between and within ethnic societies.

Author Biography

Kristian Fics has a joint Master's in Peace and Conflict Studies from the Arthur V. Mauro Center of Peace and Justice at the University of Manitoba and University of Winnipeg. He is currently doing his PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy at Nova Southeastern University.