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Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Order, Security and Conflict in a Changing Global Environment -- 2. First Generation: Conflict Management Approaches -- 3. Second Generation: Conflict Resolution Approaches to Ending Conflict -- 4. Critiquing First and Second Generation Approaches -- 5. A Third Generation of Multidimensional Approaches to Ending Conflict -- 6. Conclusion: Rethinking Approaches to Ending Conflict -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Discusses difficulties the international system presents for mediation of ethnic disputes and possible remedies; emphasizes role of the United Nations. Concludes that third parties cannot mediate unless disputants are willing to honor norms of the international community.

The United Nations and Human Security highlights and analyzes the changing peace and security challenges faced by the United Nations in an evolving international environment that is no longer solely characterized by states and inter-state security. The authors, who comprise both scholars and UN practitioners, cover a wide range of pressing current issues - including refugees, international tribunals, the promotion of democracy, ethics, regional organizations, humanitarian intervention, conflict prevention and peacekeeping - that form a cutting-edge and controversial security agenda.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Testing the United Nations Organization: the Case of Cypru -- The UN and Cyprus: a troubled relationship -- The UN in Cyprus as a paradigm for modern peace operations -- Testing the UN in Cyprus -- The structure of the work -- Part I: The Historical Background to the UN's Involvement with Cyprus -- 1 The UN and the Internationalization of the Cyprus Conflict, 1949-58 -- Introduction -- The internationalization of the Cyprus dispute until 1954 -- The first Greek appeal to the UN -- The Cyprus question and the UN in 1955 -- From the Makarios-Harding talks to the XI session of the General Assembly -- The fourth recourse to the UN: the XII session of the General Assembly -- The last recouse to the UN: the XIII session of the General Assembly -- Conclusion -- 2 The Origins of the UN Presence in Cyprus -- Introduction -- Initial attempts to involve the UN -- The United Kingdom takes the lead -- Attempts to create a NATO-based peacekeeping force -- The end of efforts to find a NATO-based force -- The preparations for the Security Council debate -- The Security Council debates -- The resolution of the five -- Part II: The UN, Peace and Security in Cyprus -- 3 Assessing the Role of the UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus -- Introduction -- Containing intercommunal conflict, 1964-74 -- Peacekeeping since 1974 -- Conclusion -- 4 UN Mediation in Cyprus, 1964-65: Setting a Precedent for Peacemaking? -- Introduction -- UN mediation in Cyprus: setting the stage -- Direct UN mediation and the Galo Plaza report -- The consequences of the failure of direct UN mediation -- Conclusion -- 5 The Most Impossible Job in the World: the Secretary-General and Cyprus -- Introduction -- The international civil service and the Secretary-General.