The article engages with the case of the missing in the Georgian–Abkhazian war (1992–1993) as an illustrative example of such interconnections. The article demonstrates that the issue of the missing can be a medium for reconciliation, notably because searching for, recovering, and identifying missing bodies entails communication and cooperation at different levels. However, the article also suggests that the issue of the missing is a locus where contestations about war and peace, reconciliation, and the identity of the victims and the perpetrators, take place.
Research Article Published on the Missing in the Georgian–Abkhazian war (1992–1993)
Earlier this year, Vadim Romashov and Élise Féron published an article in Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology in which they explore how and why the issue of the missing as an embodied impact of war has influenced possibilities for reconciliation at the personal, communal, and societal levels after the war.