Efforts to resolve Cyprus's frozen conflict have frustrated the international community for nearly forty years. One of the causes of this lack of progress is a fundamental ‘democratic deficit’ in previous efforts at peacebuilding. In response to this deficit, a civil society movement for peace has slowly but inexorably emerged in the last few decades, engaging in a wide range of reconciliation efforts. In light of an ever-evolving enabling environment, this paper asks if this civil society movement has acquired the capacity and the constituency that could establish it as a legitimate interlocutor within an expanded peace process.
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