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SUMMARY:Internal Displacement in Cyprus and childhood: The view from genet
 ic social psychology  - Dr Charis Psaltis\, University of Cyprus\, Nicosia
DTSTART:20180220T130000Z
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CONTACT:Dr. Juliet Foster
DESCRIPTION:From the view of genetic social psychology the aim is to artic
 ulate the\nmicrogenetic\, ontogenetic and sociogenetic processes of social
 \nrepresentation (Duveen and Lloyd\, 1990\; Psaltis\, 2015). These concern
 s\nchanges in the social representations of people as a result of their so
 cial\ninteraction with other people\, their developmental trajectories and
  large\nscale historical changes or changes due to public debate. In my pr
 esentation\nI will discuss the issue of internally displaced Greek Cypriot
  children from\nthe war of 1974\, and the transformation of their views ab
 out refugeehood and\nthe solution of the Cyprus problem in a situation of 
 protracted displacement\nfor the last 43 years based on recent quantitativ
 e and qualitative findings\nfrom focus group discussions and a review of t
 he available data from\nprevious work. I will explore the role of intergro
 up contact between the two\ncommunities in Cyprus (Greek Cypriots and Turk
 ish Cypriots) that was made\npossible in 2003 and the institutional polici
 es that both enable and\nconstrain today the change of their representatio
 ns and conflict\ntransformation. At the centre of this analysis is a criti
 cal examination of\nthe unintended consequences of an official policy of "
 I do not forget and I\nstruggle" [Den xehno kai agonizomai] and its conten
 t relating to how it\norientates (or not) children towards cohabitation wi
 th Turkish Cypriots\nthrough an examination of trauma and refugee identity
  as a burden or an\nempowering factor (see Hammack\, 2008).\n
LOCATION:Ground Floor Lecture Theatre\, Department of Psychology\, Downing
  Site
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