The long-running ethno-territorial conflict in Cyprus is worlds one of the most complex and intractable regional conflicts. It remains a potential flashpoint in an otherwise peaceful area of Eastern Mediterranean. While the UN peacekeeping force has maintained peace since then but it is achieved at the cost of long-term objective of conflict resolution. This peace could be termed "negative peace". The Cyprus conflict continues to resist with tenacity all efforts to bring a solution even after the entry of the European Union. Although the EUs "power of attraction" helped move the stalemate...