ABSTRACT
The introduction of the book starts with a general questioning of the state of post-conflict transition in Lebanon. It provides a short background on the issue of the 17,000 persons who disappeared during the civil war and the reasons that it has not been resolved so far. It also presents an overview of the concept of liminality, including an introduction to one of the arguments the book makes about the techniques of the state to stall the resolution of the issue; a discussion of the social science methodology employed throughout the research; as well as the significance of the work for understanding other contexts in transition.
