CYPRUS - AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO CONFLICT-RESOLUTION

This article presents an evolutionary cooperative approach to conflict resolution that would lower the fears and raise the hopes of parties in conflict by proceeding incrementally in phases that would allow int eraction and reciprocity, learning, and flexibility (through options t o expand or abandon cooperation/integration). With reference to the Cy prus conflict, although initially maintaining two separate decentraliz ed zones, the simultaneous creation of a third, joint federated area t o serve as the nucleus of a cooperative, interactive, centralized fede ration is proposed. A ''conciliation stage'' should precede a federate d structure ''testing'' phase, before expanding and ratifying full-sca le implementation contingent on successful interim cohabitation.