Over the past fifty years the Cyprus Problem has come to be regarded as the archetype of an intractable ethnic conflict. Since 1964, the United Nations has been at the forefront of efforts to find a political solution to the dispute between the island's Greek and Turkish communities. And yet, despite the active involvement of six Secretaries-General (U Thant, Kurt Waldheim, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Boutros Boutros Ghali, Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-Moon), every attempt to reach a mutually acceptable solution has failed. Here, James Ker-Lindsay draws together new and original perspectives from the leading experts on Cyprus, including academics, policy-makers, politicians and activists. All have addressed one deceptively simple question: 'Can Cyprus be solved?' Resolving Cyprus presents a comprehensive overview of the Cyprus Problem from a variety of approaches and offers new and innovative ideas as to how to tackle one of the longest running ethnic conflicts on the world stage. This represents an essential contribution to the body of work on Cyprus, and will be required reading for all those following the debates surrounding the Cyprus problem.

List of Abbreviations
Editor and Contributors
Introduction
1. A Comfortable and Routine Conflict
2. A New Vision of Good Neighbourliness
3. 'Cypriotism' and the Path to Reunification
4. Escaping the Tyranny of History
5. A Bizonal Federation is not Viable
6. The Party Politics of the Problem
7. The Prospects of a Federal Settlement
8. A Cypriot's Problem
9 Hydrocarbons Can Fuel a Settlement
10 Gas Can Become the New Lost Opportunity
11 A Gender Perspective
12 Civil Society Can Reinvigorate the Peace Process
13 Cyprus in the Doldrums
14 The Catalytic Role of Regional Crisis
15 Adopting a Piecemeal Approach
16 The Case for a Loose Federation
17 Preconditions and Expectations of a Solution
18 The Rule of Law
19 How and Why the European Union Still Matters
20 Challenging Partition in Five Success Stories
21 Security is Key to a Settlement
22 Historical Legacies of the Dispute
23 Conceptual Obstacles to a Settlement
24 One Final Chance for Federalism
25 Chronicle of a Failure Foretold?
26 A Constitutional Law Perspective
27 Updating Our Thinking on Cyprus
28 Blending Idealism with Pragmatism
29 The Role of 'Invaluable Assets'
30 A Viable Peace Process Already Exists
Index