Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process

Psaltis, Charis; Çakal, Hüseyin; Loizides, Neophytos; Bonnenfant, Işık Kuşçu

doi:10.1177/0192512119872057

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“…Both communities have Turkish origins and thus are ethnically similar; however, they are divided along cultural, social, and political fault lines, and group boundaries are salient (Psaltis, Çakal, Kuşçu, & Loizides, in press). Recent research shows that almost 50% of Turkish Cypriots now consider themselves as Cypriots and perceive their “Cypriotness” as being threatened by the Turks, both at the group and state levels (Çakal, 2012; Navaro-Yashin, 2006).…”

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Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel

Çakal

Halabi

Cazan

et al. 2019

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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Three studies investigated the effect of intergroup contact and social identification on social change among three advantaged groups in Cyprus, Romania, and Israel. In Study 1 ( n = 340, Turkish Cypriots), intergroup contact with disadvantaged immigrant Turks positively predicted endorsement of their social change motivations directly, and via intergroup trust and perspective-taking indirectly. In Study 2 ( n = 200, Romanians), contact with the ethnic minority Hungarians positively predicted endorsement of their social change motivations via intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety, while ingroup identification negatively predicted endorsement of Hungarian ethnic minority’s collective action tendencies via perspective-taking and anxiety. In Study 3 ( n = 240, Israeli Jews), intergroup contact positively predicted, while ingroup identification negatively predicted, endorsement of disadvantaged Israeli Palestinian citizens’ social change motivations via perspective-taking, anxiety, and trust. Across three studies, results show that intergroup contact led the advantaged groups to attitudinally support social change motivations of the disadvantaged outgroups through increased trust, perspective-taking, and reduced anxiety, whereas ingroup identification weakened their intention to support social change motivations via perspective-taking and intergroup anxiety in Study 2, and via intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety in Study 3.

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Section: Overview Of Present Research Context and Hypothesesmentioning

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Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel

Çakal

Halabi

Cazan

et al. 2019

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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“…Refugee families were directly affected by the conflict and, as a group, remain most attached to the notion that any political solution must restore their property rights in North Cyprus; yet, such families also tend to have a history of living in proximity to Turkish Cypriots prior to 1974, and a powerful narrative among these communities attributes the conflict to outside forces rather than to inherent incompatibilities between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. One recent study finds that Greek Cypriot refugees are more ready to support compromises in a political solution than are other Greek Cypriots (Psaltis et al, 2020). In short, past (familial) exposure to violence in Cyprus does not have a clear unidirectional effect on attitudes toward Turkish Cypriots.…”

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Extended intergroup contact in frozen conflicts: Experimental evidence from Cyprus

Donno

Psaltis

Zarpli

2021

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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How can ethnic reconciliation be achieved in conflict settings where populations are physically separated? We address this question by examining the role of “extended contact”—a form of indirect contact which entails learning about the contact experiences of others—in the context of Cyprus’s frozen conflict. We field a survey experiment in order to test two pathways through which extended contact works: (1) by helping build a common identity; and (2) by activating empathy. We find that our treatments are associated with greater trust in the outgroup and greater support for cross-ethnic interaction, but only among segments of the population that are initially less favorable toward reconciliation.

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“…One of the pillars in creating peace is acceptance of differences. Acceptance of differences is accepting that other people also have both opinions, ideals, hopes and desires that may differ [17]. The treatment of difference also includes the acceptance that other people have different religious, ethnic, racial backgrounds so that there is no reason to act in a discriminatory manner.…”

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Strengthening the Organization of the Aliansi Indonesia Damai in Internalizing Peace Values

Ichwal¹,

Sapriya²

2022

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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The values of peace in society face challenges with the existence of various cases of radicalism and terrorism in society, this is because there are people who want the community to be in a state of conflict and the spread of teachings that are misused for the benefit of the group. This study used a qualitative approach with a case study method, where the research was conducted at Aliansi Indonesia Damai because it has a program to internalize the values of peace in society by presenting former terrorists and terrorist victims, data collection techniques use interviews, observation and documentation, and data analysis using reduction, presentation and conclusion. The results showed that the implementation of the Aliansi Indonesia Damai program used a humanist approach in the form of cognitive delivery of deviant teachings in society and how to counter them. Actors who are involved in efforts to internalize the values of peace, namely inviting elements of former terrorism, victims of terrorism and universities to convey to the public about the dangers, impacts and solutions of acts of radicalism and terrorism. The conclusion in this study shows that the peaceful Indonesian alliance organization uses a humanist approach by bringing together former terrorists, terrorist victims and universities to internalize the values of peace.

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Internally displaced persons and the Cyprus peace process

Cited by 20 publications

References 40 publications

Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel

Intergroup contact and endorsement of social change motivations: The mediating role of intergroup trust, perspective-taking, and intergroup anxiety among three advantaged groups in Northern Cyprus, Romania, and Israel

Extended intergroup contact in frozen conflicts: Experimental evidence from Cyprus

Strengthening the Organization of the Aliansi Indonesia Damai in Internalizing Peace Values

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