The Broken Olive Branch: Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and the Quest for Peace in Cyprus: Volume One: The Impasse of Ethnonationalism

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments For their support of the Cyprus Peace Initiatives Project of Portland State University, under which the research endeavor for this book was undertaken, I wish to extend my gratitude to E. John Rumpakis, Cleo Rumpakis, Al Jubitz, the Jubitz Family Foundation, Douglas C. Strain, Gary Watson, Chris Garos, Effy Stephanopoulos, Isidoros Garifalakis, Maria Garifalakis, and numerous members of the Greek community of Portland, Oregon. By sharing a vision of peace and common humanity, they have morally and financially empowered our academic and practical efforts of contributing to democracy, peace, and reconciliation in the Eastern Mediterranean region. I wish to extend a special thanks to Marvin Kaiser, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Science of Portland State University; Birol Yesilada, my colleague from the Hatfield School of Government of Portland State University ; and Robert Gould, chair of the Conflict Resolution Graduate Program of Portland State University, for their encouragement and support. For reviewing the manuscript, I wish to thank, Louis Kriesberg, professor emeritus of Social Conflict Studies at Syracuse University; Sean Byrne from the Arthur V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice of St. Paul’s College, University of Manitoba, Canada; Benjamin Broome from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication of Arizona State University ; Maria Hadjipavlou from the Department of Social and Political Science of the University of Cyprus; and Erol Kaymak, chair of International Relations at the Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus. I wish to also express my appreciation to Roxane Christ and Pieter Dykhorst for their valuable editing suggestions. ix x | Acknowledgments For challenging as well as empowering my spirit, while on the long journey that concluded with the completion of The Broken Olive Branch, I wish to extend a very special thanks to my wife, Theodora, and two sons, Anastis and Michaelangelo. Lastly, I wish to thank my parents, Anastasios and Maria, for nurturing and orienting my early steps toward a world above and beyond the belligerent era in which I was raised. †he ≤roken ˘live ≤ranch ...