Imagined intergroup contact: A new technique for encouraging greater inter-ethnic contact in Cyprus

Peace and Conflict

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 97-108

  Husnu, Senel ^a   Crisp, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL RELATIONS; ETHNIC GROUP; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

CYPRUS;

EID: 77951168003     PISSN: 10781919     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10781910903484776     Document Type: Article

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