Ivana Marková is Emeritus Professor at the University of Stirling in the UK. She has been a visiting Professor at the Universities of Oslo, Dundee, Berne, Paris, Linköping, Mexico, and London and is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Psychological Society.Alex Gillespie is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Stirling in the UK. He trained in Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge before moving to the University of Stirling in 2005.

• Series Editor’s Foreword. Marková & Gillespie, Preface. Marková: Conflict and Trust in Dialogical Perspective. Part I: Symbolic Systems And Basic Trust. Hosking, Trust and Symbolic Systems: Religion and Nationhood. Wertsch & Batiashvili, Mnemonic Communities and Conflict: Georgia’s and National Narrative Template. Valsiner, The Dynamics of Trust and Non-Trust. Part II: From Categorisation To Social Representation. Rubini & Palmonari, Different and Yet Human: Categorization and the Antecedents of Intergroup Trust. Psaltis, Intergroup Trust and Contact in Transition: A Social Representations Perspective on the Cyprus Conflict. Raudsepp, The Essentially Other: Representational Processes that Divide Groups. Liu, Social Categorisation and Bao in the Age of AIDS: The Case of China. Part III: Situated Trust/Distrust: Points Of Contact. Gillespie, Dialogical Dynamics of Trust and Distrust in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Linell & Keselman, Trustworthiness at Stake: Trust and Distrust in Investigative Interviews with Russian Adolescent Asylum-Seekers in Sweden. Marková, Confession as a Communication Genre: The Logos and Mythos of the Party. Part IV: Concluding Comment. Gillespie, Contact Without Transformation: The Context, Process and Content of Distrust.

"Markova and Gillespie have delivered a highly original and cutting-edge exploration of trust and distrust as they play out in cultural contexts. Each chapter vividly brings these dynamics to life through a number of fascinating case studies, including the Cuban missile crisis, AIDS in China, the Russian-Georgian conflict and political confession in the Soviet Union. Trust and Conflict will be essential reading for anyone interested in the study of trust and intergroup conflict." - Brady Wagoner, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Aalborg "This book provides comprehensive coverage of the area of trust and conflict across cultures and draws on a variety of situations within and among groups in different settings. The Editors have a gifted style of writing, and have provided a valuable opening to the collection of papers which will prove to be a useful reading for scholars and graduate level students." - Nandita Chaudhary, Associate Professor, Lady Irwin College, University of Delhi