Delaying truth recovery for missing persons

Nations and Nationalism

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 520-539

  Kovras, Iosif ^a   Loizides, Neophytos ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cyprus; Elite framing; Missing persons; Political learning; Spoilers; Truth recovery

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; HUMAN RIGHTS; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; VIOLENCE;

CYPRUS; IRELAND; MOZAMBIQUE; SPAIN;

EID: 79959366161     PISSN: 13545078     EISSN: 14698129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8129.2009.00437.x     Document Type: Article

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