Mediating in Cyprus

The UN peacemaking operation in Cyprus has been one of the longest of its kind, but has resulted in discarded proposals, non-papers or reports. This study investigates the Cypriot parties' views of peacemaking, to shed light on the problem, and on the theoretical debates surrounding mediation.

The contributors to this volume address the issues arising from devolution and regional government in two ways. First of all, they explore the debates about devolution in Scotland, Wales and the English regions. This includes the historical development of the devolution proposals, the importance of national and regional identities, the changing devolution policies of the political parties and the approaches of business and other major interest groups towards it.
Secondly, they discuss other political issues in the context of devolution and regionalisation. Thus the creation of Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and English regional assemblies will contribute to electoral reform because proportional representation has been proposed for the elections to them. The controversial issues of how the new assemblies and governments are to be financed is also discussed.
The final essay covers the implications of the emergence of a devolved British state in which the different countries and reg

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Examines the perspectives of the disputants themselves to explain why they seem more satisfied with the status quo on the partitioned eastern Mediterranean island than with the types of resolution that have evolved from one the United Nations' longest peace efforts. Looks at the theoretical debates as a framework for discussing the historical buildup to the outbreak of conflict in 1963 and the peacemaking process from 1964 to 1994. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.