November 2, 2006

Institute for Peace & Justice (IPJ)
Speaker Series presents:

"Quo vadis Cyprus?
The dynamics of unification and partition"

7:00-8:30 pm
IPJ Theatre

This panel presentation was made possible in part by the
Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace

A key principle of narrative practice in conflict resolution is that the construction of an alternative future needs to grow out of the local knowledge of the community most affected. Greek and Turkish
Cypriots worked together on building positive relations with each other through training programs in Narrative Mediation and the Public Conversation Project funded by the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace in the Buffer Zone in Nicosia in July 2005. Twenty-seven participants, invested in careers to address the atrocities of the past and moving the country forward in a positive manner, offered their thoughts on the Cyprus problem. The panel will build on their work in Cyprus and discuss ongoing initiatives to articulate possibilities for change.

Moderator Biography

Dr. Gerald Monk is a professor with the Department of Counseling and School of Psychology at San Diego State University. His research interests include narrative mediation and narrative therapy, group work, multicultural counseling, social constructionism, conflict analysis and conflict resolution. Dr. Monk
teaches conflict resolution courses for the International Security and Conflict Resolution (ISCOR) Program; is a senior trainer with the Training Institute of the National Conflict Resolution Center
(NCRC) based in San Diego; and, the recipient of the Fred J. Hansen Grant for Peace Studies in 2005, led a conflict resolution team in facilitating bi-communal workshops with Turkish and Greek
Cypriots in Nicosia.

Panelist Biographies

Dr. Van Coufoudakis is currently the Rector at Intercollege in Nicosia, Cyprus. He is also Dean Emeritus of the School of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne, and holds the rank of Professor Emeritus of Political Science. His latest book, edited in collaboration with Eugene T. Rossides is The United States and Cyprus – Double Standards and the Rules of Law, Washington, DC: American Hellenic Institute Foundation, (2002). His research focus is politics and foreign policies of Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, and post-World War II U.S. foreign and defense policy with particular emphasis on Southeastern Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Middle East. Dr. Coufoudakis holds a Ph.D. in Political Science, a M.P.A. from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in Public Administration from the American University of Beirut.

Dr. Joseph S. Joseph is Associate Professor of International Relations and Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign and Security Policy at the University of Cyprus. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from Miami University, USA, in 1985 and prior to that was Minister Plenipotentiary in the Foreign Service for the Republic of Cyprus. Dr. Joseph was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard niversity in the late 1980s. His research interests lie in the area of Cyprus- EU relations, the Cyprus problem, Greek- Turkish relations, the European Union, European Foreign and Security Policy, International Politics, International Law, and International Organizations. His published books since 2000 are Turkey and the
European Union: Internal Dynamics and External Challenges, and The Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe: Introduction, Documents, Annotations, (ed.), 2006.

Dr. Erol Kaymak is the Chair and Professor in the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta from 1999 to present. Dr. Kaymak earned his doctorate in Political Science at Texas Tech University in 1999. His research interests include: state-society relations, social constructivism, populism, party systems, survey analysis, security studies, conflict resolution, Cyprus problem, and international relations theory. His publications include “Transforming
Identities: Beyond the Politics of Non-Settlement in North Cyprus”, Mediterranean Politics, 2005; “On the Brink of Peace?” Bitterlemons-international, 2004, and “December’s Parliamentary Elections in the North: Before and After,” Perihelion, 2003. Dr. Kaymak worked on the sub-technical committee on federal laws negotiating the Annan Plan, February-March 2004.

Dr. Marios Onisiforou is a graduate of Medicine from Athens University (1967) who specialized in Psychiatry (DPM, 1972) in England (1968-1973). In 1973 he joined the Mental Health Services department of the Ministry of Health, serving as director from 1996 until his retirement in 2000. Dr. Onisiforou is now in private practice and teaches psychiatry at the Frederick University of Cyprus. His interests include alternative conflict resolution, particularly mediation in which he has trained a number of people
including educational psychologists, social workers, lawyers etc. Dr. Onisiforou has authored two books in Greek titled: “Alternative Dispute Resolution-An introduction in Mediation” (2003), and “The
Psychopathological Self”, to be published soon.

Dr. Ahmet Sözen is the Director, Cyprus Policy Center, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta since 2004. Dr Sözen completed his doctorate in the Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-Columbia. His dissertation title was: Cyprus Conflict: Continuing Challenge and Prospects for Resolution in the Post-Cold War Era. His most recent publications include: “The Annan Plan: State Succession or Continuity”, Middle Eastern Studies (2007), “Turkish Democratization in Light of its EU
Candidate Status”, The Constitution for Europe and an Enlarging Union: Union in Diversity? (2005), “Turkish Cypriot Early General Elections of February 2005: The Rise of CTP/BG,” South European Society & Politics, (2005).

Dr. Yücel Vural is currently a Professor in the Department of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta. Dr. Vural completed his doctoral studies in Political Science and Public Administration at Ankara University. His research interests include: politics of Cyprus, politics of identity and nationalism, politics of federalism and EU Cyprus relations. His most recent publications include: “Identity fluctuations in the Turkish Cypriot community” in Mediterranean Politics, and “The Cyprus problem and the Turkish Cypriot left,” Birikim, March 2003.