Power Sharing In Conflict Ridden Societies

Author : Nils A. Butenschøn,Øyvind Stiansen,Kåre Vollan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317076759

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Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies by Nils A. Butenschøn,Øyvind Stiansen,Kåre Vollan Pdf

Based on a unique comparative study of Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Fiji this book analyses the formal and informal arrangements defining the post-conflict political order in these countries and evaluates whether these systems strengthened or weakened the chances of establishing sustainable peace and lasting democracy. What can be learned from these cases? Each country has it unique history but they are faced with comparable challenges and dilemmas in building a democratic future. Which solutions seem to contribute to democratic stability and which do not? These questions are discussed in light of theoretical literature, case studies, and field interviews with the authors concluding that systems based on proportional representation offered the best prospects for including diverse and conflicting identities and building unified political systems. The book is of particular interest to students of democracy and peace-building; academics as well as decision-makers and practitioners in the field.

Author : Nils A. Butenschon Oyvind Stian,Stian
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1472467876

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Power Sharing in Conflict Ridden Societies Challenges for Building Peace and Democratic Stability by Nils A. Butenschon Oyvind Stian,Stian Pdf

Based on a unique comparative study of Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Fiji this book analyses the formal and informal arrangements defining the post-conflict political order in these countries and evaluates whether these systems strengthened or weakened the chances of establishing sustainable peace and lasting democracy.

Author : Timothy D. Sisk
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1878379569

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Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts by Timothy D. Sisk Pdf

Can power sharing prevent violent ethnic conflict? And if so, how can the international community best promote that outcome? In this concise volume, Timothy Sisk defines power sharing as practices and institutions that result in broad-based governing coalitions generally inclusive of all major ethnic groups. He identifies the principal approaches to power sharing, including autonomy, federations, and proportional electoral systems. In addition, Sisk highlights the problems with various power-sharing approaches and practices that have been raised by scholars and practitioners alike, and the instances where power-sharing experiments have succeeded and where they have failed. Finally, he offers some guidance to policymakers as they ponder power-sharing arrangements.

Author : Allison McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317682196

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Power-Sharing and Political Stability in Deeply Divided Societies by Allison McCulloch Pdf

Nearly all the peace accords signed in the last two decades have included power-sharing in one form or another. The notion of both majority and minority segments co-operating for the purposes of political stability has informed both international policy prescriptions for post-conflict zones and home-grown power-sharing pacts across the globe. This book examines the effect of power-sharing forms of governance in bringing about political stability amid deep divisions. It is the first major comparison of two power-sharing designs – consociationalism and centripetalism - and it assesses a number of cases central to the debate, including Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Fiji, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi and Northern Ireland. Drawing on information from a variety of sources, such as political party manifestoes and websites, media coverage, think tank reports, and election results, the author reaches significant conclusions about power-sharing as an invaluable conflict-management device. This text will be of key interest to students and scholars of ethnic conflict management, power-sharing, ethnic politics, democracy and democratization, comparative constitutional design, comparative politics, intervention and peace-building.

Author : Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif,Soeren Keil,Allison McCulloch
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 303145720X

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Power-Sharing in the Global South by Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif,Soeren Keil,Allison McCulloch Pdf

Power-sharing serves as a popular conflict resolution device at war’s end. Yet, the performance record of such arrangements is highly variable, sometimes leading to peace and stability and at other times to immobilism and institutional collapse. This book explores the adoption, function, and dissolution of power-sharing arrangements across the Global South, including case studies of Colombia, Ethiopia, Malaysia, and Iraq, and others to make sense of this mixed record. Authors identify a range of contextual factors as well as significant variations in the institutional rules and their meaning across the cases that help to explain divergent power-sharing outcomes. Emphasis throughout the chapters is placed on system adaptability for power-sharing success.

Author : Allison McCulloch,John McGarry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN : 1138640360

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Power-sharing by Allison McCulloch,John McGarry Pdf

This edited collection aims to enhance our understanding of the utility of power-sharing in deeply divided societies by subjecting power-sharing theory and practice to empirical and normative analysis and critique. This text will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners of power-sharing, ethnic politics, democracy and democratization, peacebuilding, comparative constitutional design, and more broadly Comparative Politics, International Relations and Constitutional and Comparative Law.

Author : Philip G. Roeder,Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0801489741

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Sustainable Peace by Philip G. Roeder,Donald S. Rothchild Pdf

How can leaders craft political institutions that will sustain the peace and foster democracy in ethnically divided societies after conflicts as destructive as civil wars? This volume compares power-dividing and power-sharing solutions.

Author : Patricia Rinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3828835422

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Power Sharing and Democratic Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies by Patricia Rinck Pdf

Author : Patricia Rinck
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 3828862071

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Power Sharing and Democratic Peacebuilding in Post-Conflict Societies by Patricia Rinck Pdf

Power sharing has become a common way of ending violent conflicts since the 1990s, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, in the hope that it positively impacts on both peacebuilding and democratisation. Whether power sharing can actually achieve this is however contested. Bringing together the two strands of power sharing research, which deal with its effects on democratisation and peacebuilding respectively, Patricia Rinck examines how non-ethnic power sharing between former adversaries contributes to, or obstructs, democratic peacebuilding in post-conflict societies. Besides theory, Patrici.

Author : Adrian Guelke
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745660646

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Politics in Deeply Divided Societies by Adrian Guelke Pdf

The establishment of durable, democratic institutions constitutes one of the major challenges of our age. As countless contemporary examples have shown, it requires far more than simply the holding of free elections. The consolidation of a legitimate constitutional order is difficult to achieve in any society, but it is especially problematic in societies with deep social cleavages. This book provides an authoritative and systematic analysis of the politics of so-called 'deeply divided societies' in the post Cold War era. From Bosnia to South Africa, Northern Ireland to Iraq, it explains why such places are so prone to political violence, and demonstrates why - even in times of peace - the fear of violence continues to shape attitudes, entrenching divisions in societies that already lack consensus on their political institutions. Combining intellectual rigour and accessibility, it examines the challenge of establishing order and justice in such unstable environments, and critically assesses a range of political options available, from partition to power-sharing and various initiatives to promote integration. The Politics of Deeply Divided Societies is an ideal resource for students of comparative politics and related disciplines, as well as anyone with an interest in the dynamics of ethnic conflict and nationalism.

Author : Imad Salamey,Mohammed Abu-Nimer,Elie Abouaoun
Publisher : Springer
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319601045

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Post-Conflict Power-Sharing Agreements by Imad Salamey,Mohammed Abu-Nimer,Elie Abouaoun Pdf

The book surveys comparative power sharing models implemented in societies that have faced identity-conflicts, with attention given to post-conflict design. It analyzes the success and pitfalls of international experiences before proposing a model for Syria. Contributors address the central question: which among the set of power-sharing agreements that have helped settle protracted identity-driven armed conflict can provide Syria with a platform for dialogue, negotiation, and conflict mitigation? The comparative analysis advanced in this book extracts lessons from countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, India, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, Northern Ireland, the Philippines and Sudan. The prospect of a post-conflict distribution of power in Syria is then unraveled from different sectarian, ethnic and regional perspectives. The authors also address challenges of peacebuilding such as violent extremism, gender participation, resettlements, retributions, transitional justice, integration of armed groups and regional and international sponsorship.

Author : Carmen Geha
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317290230

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Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya by Carmen Geha Pdf

Lebanon and Libya have undergone critical political events in recent years. However, demands for reform from civic institutions during these transitions have not led to concrete political decisions. Civil Society and Political Reform in Lebanon and Libya reveals the deeply-entrenched historical patterns and elements of continuity that have led to path dependent outcomes in the political transitions of both countries. Motivated by personal experiences as an activist in Lebanon, the author draws together a wide range of data from participant observations, nation-wide surveys, interviews and focus groups in a careful analysis of these two civil society-led reform campaigns. The study demonstrates how the combination of weak states and power-sharing agreements marginalizes civic organisations and poses institutional constraints on the likelihood of reform. Written by an active participant in the political events discussed, this book offers new insight into two countries which present comparable and informative case studies. As such, it is a valuable resource for students, scholars and policymakers interested in civil society, politics and reform in the Middle East and North Africa.

Author : Siobhan Byrne,Allison McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 1032148764

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Power-sharing Pacts and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda by Siobhan Byrne,Allison McCulloch Pdf

This book offers a comparative lens on the contested relationship between two leading conflict resolution norms: ethnopolitical power-sharing pacts and the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda. Championed by national governments and international organizations over the last two decades, power-sharing and feminist scholars and practitioners tend to view them as opposing norms. Critics charge that power-sharing scholars cast gender as an inconsequential political identity that does not motivate people like ethnonationalism. From a feminist perspective, such thinking serves the interests of ethnicized elites while excluding women and other marginalized communities from key sites of political power. This edited volume takes a different tack: while recognizing the gender gaps that still exist in power-sharing theory and practice, contributors also emphasize the constructive engagements that can be built between ethnopolitical power-sharing and gender inclusion. Three main themes are highlighted: The 'gender silences' of existing power-sharing arrangements The impact of gender activism and advocacy on the negotiation and implementation of power-sharing pacts in divided societies The opportunities for linkages between power-sharing and the women, peace and security agenda. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.

Author : Tamirace Fakhoury Mühlbacher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783531917696

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Democratisation and Power-Sharing in Stormy Weather by Tamirace Fakhoury Mühlbacher Pdf

Is democracy possible only in homogeneous societies? Does heterogeneity - clude a stable democracy? Throughout history, ethnic, linguistic, or religious homogeneity whether by circumstance, coercion, or choice, has seemingly been conducive to democracy. In France, democracy was established after the impo- tion of religious uniformity and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The United States pulled in immigrants who renounced their original affiliations to forge a new identity in a newly born state. Still, defying assumptions, democracies have emerged in heterogeneous states such as the Swiss Confederation, the Successor States of the Holy Roman Empire and, later, those carved out of the previous colonial empires. One common feature is the failure of – often violent – attempts to enforce homogeneity, or the lack of any such attempt in the first place. In the course of time, these divided societies have learned to live in diversity, to pacify their differences, and to find a path - wards peace or at least accommodation. In sum, they went beyond forms of se- rating powers to sharing power. Whether defined by ethnicity, language, religion, or even ideology, communities agreed to a pact on participating in a joint gove- ment based on proportional or even equal representation. It is noteworthy that political systems based on power-sharing were long marg- al in mainstream political science which laid an emphasis on democratic tran- tions in homogeneous societies and on socio-economic or cultural prerequisites that facilitate the rise of democracy.

Author : Elke Grawert
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781847010223

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After the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan by Elke Grawert Pdf

The Sudanese peace agreement reached a crisis point in its final year. This book offers an analysis of the impact of the implementation of the agreement on different Sudanese communities and neighbouring regions. After a long process of peace negotiations the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed on 9 January 2005 between the Government of Sudan (GOS) and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A). The CPA raised initialhopes that it would be the foundation block for lasting peace in Sudan. This book compiles scholarly analyses of the implementation of the power sharing agreement of the CPA, of ongoing conflicts with particular respect to land issues, of the challenges of the reintegration of internally displaced people and refugees, and of the repercussions of the CPA in other regions of Sudan as well as in neighbouring countries. Elke Grawert is SeniorLecturer at the Institute for Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS), Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bremen, Germany.