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Introduction:
Carolyn Stephenson, a University of Hawai'i peace researcher who had a Fullbright Grant to work in Cyprus, had lot of of trouble doing Track II work there because the Track I work was on a different timeline. Here she discusses the important of parallel time lines.
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Parallel Time Lines Between Track I and Track II Diplomacy
Carolyn Stephenson
Professor of Population Studies, College of Social Sciences, University of Hawai'i
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I suppose that the main thing that I've learned on
Track II is this question of making sure that you have parallel time lines
between Track I and Track II diplomacy.
If there's a mis-fit in time then something that has gotten momentum on
one, hasn't gotten momentum on the other and that can be in either direction. It
can be as I've talked about with the Track I negotiations stopping the Track II
negotiations or it can be the Track I leading to the Track II or the Track II
negotiations developing a momentum in the mid-1990s in Cyprus, tremendous Track
II both from outside and from inside on a wide variety of subjects which then
became so threatening to the efforts to keep the two parts of Cyprus apart that
everything was shut down. Before it did that, it led to immense improvement in
relations on a ground level. So the timing and the synchronizations of Track I
and Track II is absolutely critical.
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