'This land is ours - but is it also theirs?' Collective ownership beliefs and reconciliation in territorial conflict regions
Year: 2022

Believing that something is ‘ours’ is omnipresent. For instance, I might often go to a café together with a group of friends and I can develop the belief that this is ‘our’ café. Importantly, in order to believe that something is ‘ours’ it does not need to be legally ‘ours’. This belief has been entitled ‘collective psychological ownership’. Collective psychological ownership tends to come along with certain perceived entitlements and rights, such as the right to use, occupy or control what is b