Tag: human needs

• March 18, 2009

  TURKEY’S RETURN TO GLORY

  This article just appeared in Today’s Zaman and in Zaman which is Turkey’s preeminent journal. As you can see this has been part of my ongoing efforts to introduce and encourage far more intermediaries in the Middle Eastern conflict who can be effective, trustworthy and more even handed that Western intervention. This is meant also to encourage the United States, Hilary Clinton, and others to follow the lead of where the most moderate voices of the Islamic world are going. This is also a development of my work in Syria which has encouraged cultural revival that is peace-oriented, practical and visionary at once.

  Turkey’s return to glory
  by
  Marc Gopin
  For reasons of history, culture and geography, there is a surprising opportunity for Turkey to assume a position of central global leadership in the 21st century and thereby further all of its legitimate national interests.

  This is shocking considering the

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• September 30, 2008

  Negotiating Space, Imagining Coexistence in Cyprus: Lessons from Malta

  An article by Alfred Farrugia, former Maltese diplomat and ICAR Ph.D. candidate, in the Famagusta Gazette, addresses the structural ways in which conflict can be reduced in Cyprus following the Maltese political model.

  The Parliamentary system in Malta has worked fairly well since the island gained its Independence from Britain in 1964. Perhaps the time has come for Cyprus to consider the possibility of moving from a Presidential system to a parliamentary system…

  Cyprus needs a paradigm shift to reach a sustainable solution with the two communities represented in a single Cabinet of a united government. With EU membership, the Turkish Cypriots have a guarantee that the past mistakes will not be repeated again. The basic human needs of security, identity and recognition can be satisfied in a united Cyprus if the two communities really wish to live in peace with each other, as they did for generations….

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