Sharing Power Securing Peace

Author : Lars-Erik Cederman,Simon Hug,Julian Wucherpfennig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108304511

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Sharing Power, Securing Peace? by Lars-Erik Cederman,Simon Hug,Julian Wucherpfennig Pdf

Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not surprising that scholars disagree as to whether power sharing actually reduces conflict. Based on systematic data and innovative methods, this book comes to a mostly positive conclusion by focusing on practices rather than merely formal institutions, studying power sharing's preventive effect, analyzing how power sharing is invoked in anticipation of conflict, and by showing that territorial power sharing can be effective if combined with inclusion at the center. The authors' findings demonstrate that power sharing is usually the best option to reduce and prevent civil conflict in divided states.

Author : Lars-Erik Cederman,Simon Hug,Julian Wucherpfennig
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108418140

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Sharing Power, Securing Peace by Lars-Erik Cederman,Simon Hug,Julian Wucherpfennig Pdf

Shows how power-sharing practices reduce violence both preventively and after conflicts by giving potential violent challengers access to central and/or regional power.

Author : Richard Kozul-Wright,Piergiuseppe Fortunato
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781849665865

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Securing Peace by Richard Kozul-Wright,Piergiuseppe Fortunato Pdf

This book studies the processes which lead to explosion of civil strife and tries to spell out the policy options available to address the challenges faced by post-conflict economies. It calls for a more integrated policy approach which can gradually repair trust in public institutions as it addresses the vulnerabilities and grievances that helped start the process. Usually, such societies do not have the luxury of meeting the goals of security, reconciliation and development in a measured or sequenced manner: to avoid an immediate return to violence they must begin the recovery process on all fronts simultaneously.

Author : Philip G. Roeder,Donald S. Rothchild
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : Siobhan Byrne,Allison McCulloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000487077

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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 : Matthew Nanes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108839051

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Policing for Peace by Matthew Nanes Pdf

In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.

Author : Monica Duffy Toft
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400831999

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Securing the Peace by Monica Duffy Toft Pdf

Timely and pathbreaking, Securing the Peace is the first book to explore the complete spectrum of civil war terminations, including negotiated settlements, military victories by governments and rebels, and stalemates and ceasefires. Examining the outcomes of all civil war terminations since 1940, Monica Toft develops a general theory of postwar stability, showing how third-party guarantees may not be the best option. She demonstrates that thorough security-sector reform plays a critical role in establishing peace over the long term. Much of the thinking in this area has centered on third parties presiding over the maintenance of negotiated settlements, but the problem with this focus is that fewer than a quarter of recent civil wars have ended this way. Furthermore, these settlements have been precarious, often resulting in a recurrence of war. Toft finds that military victory, especially victory by rebels, lends itself to a more durable peace. She argues for the importance of the security sector--the police and military--and explains that victories are more stable when governments can maintain order. Toft presents statistical evaluations and in-depth case studies that include El Salvador, Sudan, and Uganda to reveal that where the security sector remains robust, stability and democracy are likely to follow. An original and thoughtful reassessment of civil war terminations, Securing the Peace will interest all those concerned about resolving our world's most pressing conflicts.

Author : C. Sriram
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230582163

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Peace as Governance by C. Sriram Pdf

A critical study of incentives commonly used to induce non-state armed groups to engage in peace negotiations. Offers a closer analysis of these incentives, which offer such groups a place or a stake in governance, suggesting that not only are they frequently ineffective, but that they can have unintended and dangerous side effects.

Author : Miranda Melcher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350407923

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Securing Peace in Angola and Mozambique by Miranda Melcher Pdf

This book helps explain how and why there are such diverging outcomes of UN peace negotiations and treaties through a detailed examination of peace processes in the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Does it really matter what's written on page 36, protocol V, section III, point 5 of a UN-endorsed peace treaty? Dr. Miranda Ruwart Melcher shows that seemingly small details - such as who wears suits, who has toothbrushes, and how specific words are translated between French and English - can and have delayed peace or contributed to restarting wars. Dr. Melcher uses unique primary source data, including interviews with key actors who have participated in peace treaty negotiations, as well as thousands of previously newly opened UN documents. She argues that treaty specificity is an undervalued - but important - factor in researching the success or failure of peace processes. The book offers new insights and policy recommendations for key details whose presence or absence can have a significant impact on how peace processes unfold.

Author : Laura Zanotti
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271072265

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Governing Disorder by Laura Zanotti Pdf

The end of the Cold War created an opportunity for the United Nations to reconceptualize the rationale and extent of its peacebuilding efforts, and in the 1990s, democracy and good governance became legitimizing concepts for an expansion of UN activities. The United Nations sought not only to democratize disorderly states but also to take responsibility for protecting people around the world from a range of dangers, including poverty, disease, natural disasters, and gross violations of human rights. National sovereignty came to be considered less an entitlement enforced by international law than a privilege based on states’ satisfactory performance of their perceived obligations. In Governing Disorder, Laura Zanotti combines her firsthand experience of UN peacebuilding operations with the insights of Michel Foucault to examine the genealogy of post–Cold War discourses promoting international security. Zanotti also maps the changes in legitimizing principles for intervention, explores the specific techniques of governance deployed in UN operations, and identifies the forms of resistance these operations encounter from local populations and the (often unintended) political consequences they produce. Case studies of UN interventions in Haiti and Croatia allow her to highlight the dynamics at play in the interactions between local societies and international peacekeepers.

Author : Caroline A. Hartzell,Matthew Hoddie
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271075600

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Crafting Peace by Caroline A. Hartzell,Matthew Hoddie Pdf

The recent efforts to reach a settlement of the enduring and tragic conflict in Darfur demonstrate how important it is to understand what factors contribute most to the success of such efforts. In this book, Caroline Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie review data from all negotiated civil war settlements between 1945 and 1999 in order to identify these factors. What they find is that settlements are more likely to produce an enduring peace if they involve construction of a diversity of power-sharing and power-dividing arrangements between former adversaries. The strongest negotiated settlements prove to be those in which former rivals agree to share or divide state power across its economic, military, political, and territorial dimensions. This finding is a significant addition to the existing literature, which tends to focus more on the role that third parties play in mediating and enforcing agreements. Beyond the quantitative analyses, the authors include a chapter comparing contrasting cases of successful and unsuccessful settlements in the Philippines and Angola, respectively.

Author : Joanne McEvoy
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780812246513

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Power-Sharing Executives by Joanne McEvoy Pdf

To achieve peaceful interethnic relations and a stable democracy in the aftermath of violent conflict, institutional designers may task political elites representing previously warring sides with governing a nation together. In Power-Sharing Executives, Joanne McEvoy asks whether certain institutional rules can promote cooperation between political parties representing the contending groups in a deeply divided place. Examining the different experiences of postconflict power sharing in Bosnia, Macedonia, and Northern Ireland, she finds that with certain incentives and norms in place, power sharing can indeed provide political space for an atmosphere of joint governance or accommodation between groups. Power-Sharing Executives explains how the institutional design process originated and evolved in each of the three nations and investigates the impact of institutional rules on interethnic cooperation. McEvoy also looks at the role of external actors such as international organizations in persuading political elites to agree to share power and to implement power-sharing peace agreements. This comparative analysis of institutional formation and outcomes shows how coalitions of varying inclusivity or with different rules can bring about a successful if delicate consociationality in practice. Power-Sharing Executives offers prescriptions for policymakers facing the challenges of mediating peace in a postconflict society and sheds light on the wider study of peace promotion.

Author : Caroline A. Hartzell,Andreas Mehler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Civil war
ISBN : 1626377677

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Power Sharing and Power Relations After Civil War by Caroline A. Hartzell,Andreas Mehler Pdf

There are numerous studies on the role of power-sharing agreements in the maintenance of peace in postconflict states. Less explored, however, is the impact of power sharing on the quality of the peace. Do power-sharing institutions in fact transform the balance of power among actors in the aftermath of civil wars? And if so, how? As they address these issues, seeking to establish a new research agenda, the authors provide a rich new analytical approach to understanding how power sharing actually works.

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139456944

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The United Nations, Peace and Security by Ramesh Thakur Pdf

Preventing humanitarian atrocities is becoming as important for the United Nations as dealing with inter-state war. In this book, Ramesh Thakur examines the transformation in UN operations, analysing its changing role and structure. He asks why, when and how force may be used and argues that the growing gulf between legality and legitimacy is evidence of an eroded sense of international community. He considers the tension between the US, with its capacity to use force and project power, and the UN, as the centre of the international law enforcement system. He asserts the central importance of the rule of law and of a rules-based order focused on the UN as the foundation of a civilised system of international relations. This book will be of interest to students of the UN and international organisations in politics, law and international relations departments, as well as policymakers in the UN and other NGOs.

Author : Nils August Butenschøn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Coalition governments
ISBN : 1315601869

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Power-sharing in Conflict-ridden Societies by Nils August Butenschøn Pdf