ABSTRACT
Central and Eastern Europe during the 1990s was a time of extraordinary change in every aspect of economic, political and social life and, perhaps above all, in inter-relationships between ethnic groups hostile to each other. This final chapter examines the substantive issues emerging from the research. From this perspective, the first part of the chapter centres upon the ways in which participants moved through the experience of re-evaluating and re-drawing their personal and social boundaries with others, and the emerging conflicts and tensions. The analysis continues by reflecting upon the dominant position of suffering, guilt, emotional hurt and irritability in the participants' lives, and the way these issues were coped with. The final part of the chapter considers questions surrounding the methodological aspects of the research. Gadamer's influence led the author to write a lot more on how he did the research in relation to his findings.
