Cover -- CONTENTS -- EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD -- Preface -- Introduction -- Transcending organisational autism in the UN system response to HIV/AIDS in Africa -- Paradoxes of optimisation in public service management -- A cybernetic re-evaluation of socio-economic development programs -- Improving national accounts -- Identity: the paradoxical nature of organizational closure -- Momentum and control: a dynamic of democracy -- Governance of economic transitions: a case study of Ukraine -- A cybernetic diagnosis of Sri Lanka's 2002-2003 peace negotiations -- Identity: articulating cybernetics and sociology -- An ABC of British higher education -- Towards productive and sustainable forms of interaction in governance -- A systems approach to analysing sub-state conflicts -- HIV/AIDS: a threat to the viability of the societies it attacks -- Contemporary systems and cybernetics -- Cybernetics and systems on the web -- Awards for Excellence -- Communications and forum -- News, conferences and technical reports -- Announcements -- Special announcements.