How Much Role Can the UN Play in the Reconciliation of Conflicting Parties?
In supposedly war-torn Cyprus, the United Nations headquarters is aptly located in a bombed out hotel. During the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the Ledra Palace Hotel, one of the best in Cypriot capital of Nicosia, at the time, was on the receiving end of the constant barrages. With the hotel situated directly on the UN-mandated "Green Line" that separated the city's northern Turkish districts from the southern Greek zones, the 1974 war saw it become the very frontlines of devastating military conflict that left millions internally displaced in its aftermath.