Table 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

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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

About the Author

OLIVER RICHMOND is Assistant Professor and coordinator of the undergraduate programme of International Relations at the Nicosia Campus of Intercollege, Cyprus and a Research Fellow at the University of Kent. He is the author of Mediating in Cyprus: The Cypriot Communities and the UN. - JAMES KER-LINDSAY completed his doctorate on the origins of the United Nations Force in Cyprus at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is currently coordinator of the Greek-Turkish Forum at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies, in London.