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.

• 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