SDDP Envisioning a Future Keryneia

From Future Worlds Center Wiki
Jump to navigationJump to search
SDDP Envisioning a Future Keryneia
SDDP Envisioning a Future Keryneia
Report Title SDDP Report
Triggering Question What are descriptors of an ideal image of a future Kyrenia?
Dates 2007 (April 30 & May 2)
Author(s) Rebecca Brubaker
Elia Petridou
Tonia Loizidou
Editor(s) Yiannis Laouris
Marios Michaelides
Total Duration 6 hrs



Executive Summary

The Envisioning a Future Keryneia Co-Laboratory was organized.


The co-Laboratory was sponsored and hosted at the Keryneia Municipality at the buffer zone by Ledra Palace.

The Triggering Question (TQ) was
What are descriptors of an ideal image of a future Keryneia?

In response to the TQ, the 25 participants came up with 65 Descriptors, which were categorized in 12 clusters. Following the voting process, 65 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.


MAP for Envisioning a Future Keryneia.
Influence tree from the Characteristics SDDP of the Envisioning a Future in Keryneia workshop for TQ.


According to the participants of this workshop, appear to be the most influential were:

  • Descriptor #2, All properties owned by original owners
  • Descriptor #3, The human rights of Keryneians to be completely respected in Keryneia
  • Descriptor #1, Free city without troops
  • Descriptor #66, Keryneia to be a paradise where all citizens (greek and turkish cypriots) will live in peace of there are no externat interventions
  • Descriptor #7, All Turkish troops out of Cyprus

List of all Ideas

The following ideas were collected in response to the Triggering Question "What are descriptors of an ideal image of a future Keryneia?"

  1. Free City without troops
  2. All properties owned by original owners
  3. The human rights of Kyrenians to be completely respected in Kyrenia
  4. All settlers to be removed
  5. To be back in our original environment with our original neighbors
  6. The future Kyrenia to come quickly
  7. All Turkish troops out of Cyprus
  8. Kyrenia in a United Cyprus in the United Europe as it was throughout the last 3500 years
  9. Peaceful and safe City
  10. Reforested
  11. I want Kyrenia with its native people as they were before 1974 without settlers and turkish army
  12. The historical centre to be architecturally restored as it was before 1974
  13. All British and other foreigners not to gain ownership rights
  14. A spiritual and cultural beacon in the Mediterranean
  15. A unique beautiful romantic city
  16. To be able to live in the house I was born in
  17. Equal rights for all Kyrenians and Kyrenia itself in the context of the European Union
  18. A City in which everybody will know eachother by their first name
  19. A City full of orchards
  20. A City with the majority as it was before 1974
  21. The majority will be as before and will rule
  22. The minority will have all its rights
  23. A City were many European and international conferences will take place
  24. All illegal constructions at least will be stoped
  25. A City where all who fled for their lives will be remembered by name and photo
  26. A District where all ecclesiastical, cultural and national monuments will be restored in their original glory
  27. A City in which our children and grandchildren will enjoy life as we did before 1974
  28. A district with the same schools as they existed before 1974
  29. Kyrenia the attraction (koitida) of tourism of all Europe and elsewhere to become again
  30. A safe place to raise a family
  31. A place where you can see the sea
  32. As beautiful as before with all its churches with all their antique icons in place as before
  33. Many writers/researchers will record the drama of the Kyrenians as refugees going back to their town
  34. Names of streets and places (toponyms) to be as they were before
  35. All pre 1974 houses to bear the name and the photo of the people who lived there before 1974
  36. Liberated Kyrenia
  37. The color of the small beautiful town as it was before
  38. Kyrenia the 2nd Riviera of the Mediterranean
  39. To be able to leave you front door unlocked
  40. A town that the cemetaries are not destroyed
  41. The turkish flag will not be on Pentadaktylos
  42. The writting on Pentadaktylos (proud to be called a turk) not to be there
  43. Kyrenia will be the cultural capital of Europe
  44. The villages around Kyrenia to have their original picturesque images
  45. A Kyrenia with a Kyrenian Mayor, not from Limassol
  46. The lemon blossom smell will dominate in the Spring time
  47. A City where casinos/betting shops are not to be found
  48. A Kyrenia with Turkey as a friendly neighbour
  49. The boundaries (rothesia) of properties to be as they were before 1974
  50. A picturesque harbour without disturbing symbols
  51. The town to be developed by its authentic owners
  52. A centre of peace with a United Nations headquarters
  53. A place where all human rights will be respected
  54. A multicultural and multireligious place
  55. A museum with exhibits of the last 5000 years and names of people who gave their lives for world peace
  56. The town and the villages to be restored in their original achitectural character
  57. The reactivation of all government services, banks etc.
  58. No more mosques or Islamic monuments to be constructed, preferably to be removed
  59. Kerynians and their descendents to be in charge for their own destiny
  60. To be cleaned and tidy town as it was before
  61. A city where a religious wedding takes place in Archangelos church with the couple walking down the stairs
  62. A place with respect of each other individuality
  63. To have schools and centers that teach traditional embroideries
  64. A place to enjoy mountain and sea at the same time
  65. Reactivation of all sports activities, associations and centres and cultural events(GSPraksandos, anthesteria)
  66. Kerynia to be a paradise where all citizens (greek and turkish cypriots) will live in peace if there are no external interventions

References