Communication Across Conflict Lines
The Case of Ethnically Divided Cyprus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3918574 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harry Anastasiou (Portland State University, Oregon & Cyprus Peace Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 581-596 |
| Publication date | 2002-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Peace Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022343302039005005 |
| OpenAlex | W1981293315 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 14 |
This article explores the dynamics of nationalist communication, or better, of non-communication, between the rival Cypriot ethnic communities. The analysis shows how the protracted ethno-nationalist conflict that has stained the history of the Eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus has affected, among other things, the process of communication between the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot communities. A number of themes that occupy a central place in the conflict are explored from the vantage point of how each community understands and addresses them as it interacts with the other. The inquiry discloses that the interpretive mental frameworks by which the meaning of words, facts, events, behaviors, and phenomena have been perceived, recalled, understood, and transferred have become culturally and institutionally configured in such a way over the years as to often dissociate and even dismantle the very conditions by which intercommunal communication becomes possible. The article also examines the conditions and prospects of freeing communication from its entrapments in the `meaning patterns' of ethno-nationalist conflict, particularly in the context of the emerging bicommunal citizen peace movement. It shows how the germinating inter-ethnic dialogue in the spirit of peaceseeking rapprochement is commencing a process of deconstructing the traditional forms of conflictual, nationalist discourse while opening up new vistas of understanding, possibilities, and vision for the future
Context (archaeology) · Ethnic conflict · Ethnic group · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Turkish · Anthropology · Cyprus History, Politics, Society · Gender Studies · History · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Peacebuilding and International Security · Psychology · Social Psychology
Cyprus
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Nationalism as a Deterrent to Peace and Interethnic Democracy
Ethnic Nationalism and Adaptation in Cyprus
Who is the ‘Villain of the Piece’
Drawing Cyprus
Displacement, memory and home(less) identities
Relational peace practices
Journalism in conflict-affected societies
Young people's perspectives on conflict, reconciliation and reunification in Cyprus
Working for peace
Nationalism and Reconciliation in Cypriot Documentary Film, 1976–1987
Ontological Security and Japan’s Ideological Debate over Compensating Wartime ‘Comfort Women’
Echoes from the Past
Reaching Across the Dividing Line
Theorizing Peace Parks
| Citations per year | 0.73 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2004 - 2023 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |