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The United Nations has rarely been given a fair hearing with regard to its work in Cyprus. Despite competing demands for its limited resources being challenged by the local parties and at the mercy of contradictory political directions at the international level, the UN has actually achieved more than is generally realized. This is the first volume to critically appraise all the major areas of the UN's peacekeeping, peacemaking, and peace building activities in Cyprus.
List of contents
List of Contributors Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction: Testing the UN System in Cyprus; J.Ker-Lindsay & O.Richmond PART ONE: THE HISTORIAL BACKGROUND TO THE UN's INVOLVEMENT WITH CYPRUS The United Nations and the Internationalization of the Cyprus Conflict 1949-1958; H.Faustmann The Origins of the United Nations Presence in Cyprus; J.Ker-Lindsay PART TWO: THE UNITED NATIONS, PEACE ANDF SECURITY IN CYPRUS Assessing the Role of the United Nations Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP); D.Lindley UN Mediation in Cyprus 1964-65: Setting a Precedent for Peacemaking?; O.Richmond The Most Impossible Job in the World: the Secretary-General and Cyprus; E.Newman PART THREE: THE UN, DEVELOPMENT, AND HUMANITARIAN ISSUES Contested 'Development': A Retrospective of the United Nations Development Programme in Cyprus; P.Hocknell 'Waiting for Ulysses': The Committee on Missing Persons; P.S.Cassia Going Political: The Work of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Cyprus; M.Demetriou Index
About the author
MADELEINE DEMETRIOU Graduate School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
HUBERT FAUSTMANN Researcher, Department of History, University of Mannheim
PETER HOCKNELL Department of Geography, University of Durham
DAN LINDLEY Assistant Professor, International Relations, Notre Dame University, United States
EDWARD NEWMAN Peace and Governance Programme, United Nations University, Tokyo
PAUL SANT CASSIA Reader in Anthropology, University of Durham
Summary
The United Nations has rarely been given a fair hearing with regard to its work in Cyprus. Despite competing demands for its limited resources being challenged by the local parties and at the mercy of contradictory political directions at the international level, the UN has actually achieved more than is generally realized.
