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Author: Joana Amaral Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815654707 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing upon two case studies, Amaral presents an empirically rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. She examines the negotiations, offering new interview material with key political and civil figures involved in the peace negotiations and referendum campaigns in both cases. Amaral argues that referendums are unsuitable for traditional secretive and exclusionist peace negotiations that fail to engage and educate the public. They rather require inclusive negotiations that involve a broad spectrum of political stakeholders and civil society at the early stages of the process. This peacemaking approach can allow referendums to positively shape societies in conflict and be a crucial step toward lasting peace.
Author: Joana Amaral Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 0815654707 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 202
Book Description
Referendums have become an undeniably important, and perhaps inescapable, peacemaking tool in contemporary peace processes. As such, understanding the ways in which referendum outcomes are shaped by peace negotiations is vital. Drawing upon two case studies, Amaral presents an empirically rich comparative analysis of the Annan Plan in Cyprus and the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. She examines the negotiations, offering new interview material with key political and civil figures involved in the peace negotiations and referendum campaigns in both cases. Amaral argues that referendums are unsuitable for traditional secretive and exclusionist peace negotiations that fail to engage and educate the public. They rather require inclusive negotiations that involve a broad spectrum of political stakeholders and civil society at the early stages of the process. This peacemaking approach can allow referendums to positively shape societies in conflict and be a crucial step toward lasting peace.
Author: Ron Levy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198867034 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
Peace referendums', which seek to manage conflict between warring groups, are increasingly common. Yet they remain erratic forces--liable as often to aggravate as to resolve tensions. This book argues that, despite their risks, referendums can play useful roles amid armed conflict. Drawing on a distinctive combination of the fields of deliberative democracy, constitutional theory and conflict studies, and relying on comparative examples (eg, from Algeria, Colombia, New Caledonia, Northern Ireland, Papua New Guinea, and South Africa), the book shows how peace referendums can fulfil their promise as genuine tools of conflict management.
Author: Katherine Collin Publisher: ISBN: 9781339997650 Category : Conflict management Languages : en Pages : 327
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Since 1990, peacemakers have mandated and held a growing number of referendums in efforts to address the causes of potential or actual armed conflicts. These "peacemaking referendums" are a peacemaking tool that is increasingly used but little understood. Peacemaking referendums have the potential to advance peace and settle conflicts for cases in which neither war nor negotiation alone could bring a conflict to conclusion. By addressing and transforming sovereign state configurations at the heart of conflict, a referendum may redraw boundaries, reshape structures of governance, and provide inclusion and protection for minorities. In so doing, peacemaking referendums can make unique and positive contributions to ending conflict. However, referendums held in the context of conflict, posing existential questions to divided societies may be dangerous due to their zero-sum, high-stakes, majoritarian characteristics. This dissertation aims to explore under what circumstances peacemaking referendums lead to violence, conflict or stable peace. The research offers a conceptual model for understanding the potential risks and contributions of peacemaking referendums. Thirteen case studies were developed, including field work and elite interviews in South Sudan, Cyprus, East Timor, and Indonesia. The ten additional cases were developed as structured case studies. Drawing from these cases, the dissertation inductively builds a typology of peacemaking referendums, in which four types of referendums are distinguished based on (a) whether the referendum is part of a negotiation process and (b) whether the referendum is designed to finally conclude the conflict. Within each type, a distinct process links the cases into a coherent set with particular risks and contributions. The typology and case studies generate a series of hypotheses that link peace negotiations to referendums' structures, results, and outcomes. The research contributes to literature on direct democracy, the use of elections in post-conflict transitions, peacemaking and negotiation, and the use of conflict management strategies such as territorial partition and power-sharing. It could also serve as a conceptual lens through which practitioners and scholars view the use of referendums for peacemaking and peacebuilding.
Author: Richard Albert Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198867646 Category : Referendum Languages : en Pages : 321
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The possibility of democracy-enhancing uses and anti-democratic abuses of referendums reveals a paradox: mechanisms of democracy can be exploited to do violence to the basic principles of democracy. The Limits and Legitimacy of Referendums seeks to identify standards we might use to assess the democratic legitimacy of a referendum when we cannot rely on the norms of traditional liberal democracy. This innovative book explores how referendums manage the tension between liberalism and democracy, and whether this device holds promise for reconciling these two commitments. A range of scholars from around the world expose how referendums may be abused on one hand to achieve short-term political or even personal gains, and how, on the other, they may aspire to reflect the best traditions of deliberative, innovative, democracy-enhancing popular decision-making. Structured around three big questions, this book seeks to identify what makes a referendum legitimate. First, why have referendums on issues of fundamental political importance become so frequent around the world? Second, who are - or who should be - the people that make decisions about a political community's future? And third, are referendums an effective and reliable mechanism of popular sovereignty or democratic choice? These essays - written for scholars, public lawyers, political actors and citizens - bring together diverse perspectives on referendums, constitutionalism, liberalism and democracy in ways that challenge the conventional wisdom, prompt new answers to enduring questions, and urge reconsideration of how we evaluate the legitimacy of referendums.
Author: Matt Qvortrup Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137314702 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 395
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Surveying all referendums around the world since 1793, Dr Qvortrup and contributors provide a thorough account of why and when citizens have been asked to vote on policy issues. Referendums Around the World is essential reading for political scientists and others interested in direct democracy as well as representative government.
Author: M. Walker Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1403973776 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 167
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The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and institutions and in doing so not provide a democratic result for the citizenry of a country.
Author: Roger Mac Ginty Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030829626 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 623
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This fully updated third-edition of Contemporary Peacemaking is a state of the art overview of peacemaking in relation to contemporary civil wars. It examines best (and worst) practice in relation to peace processes and peace accords. The contributing authors are a mix of leading academics and practitioners with expert knowledge of a wide arrays of cases and techniques. The book provides a mix of theory and concept-building along with insights into ongoing cases of peace processes and post-accord peacebuilding. The chapters make clear that peacemaking is a dynamic field, with new practices in peacemaking techniques, changes to the international peace support architecture, and greater awareness of key issues such as gender and development after peace accords. The book is mindful of the intersection between top-down and bottom-up approaches to peace and how formal and institutionalized peace accords need to be lived and enacted by communities on the ground.
Author: Harry Anastasiou Publisher: Syracuse University Press ISBN: 9780815631972 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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In the second volume, Anastasiou focuses on emergent post-nationalist trends, their implications for peace, and recent attempts to reach mutually acceptable agreements between Greek and Turkish Cypriots. He documents the transformation of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey within the context of Europeanization and globalization. While leaders of both communities have failed to resolve the conflict, Anastasiou argues that the accession of Cyprus into the European Union has created a structure and process that promises a multiethnic, democratic Cyprus. With great depth and balance, The Broken Olive Branch presents a fresh analysis of the Cyprus conflict and new insights on the influence of nationalism.
Author: Della Porta, Donatella Publisher: Policy Press ISBN: 1447333411 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 232
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In recent years, social movements on the left have increasingly begun to make themselves felt in referendums. This has been seen throughout Europe: in votes regarding independence in Scotland and Catalonia, on water rights in Italy, on debt repayment in Iceland, and on the financial proposals of the troika in Greece. This book presents case studies of those referendums and more to analyze the ways that social movements formed in the wake of the 2008 crash have affected referendums' development and outcomes. Looking at general issues of democracy, as well as the political effects of neoliberalism, this book is ideally suited to help us understand some of the issues around Brexit and will be read by a wide audience interested in social movements, referendums, and democratic innovation.
Author: Joana Amaral
Author: Joana Amaral
Author: Ron Levy
Author: Katherine Collin
Author: Richard Albert
Author: Matt Qvortrup
Author: M. Walker
Author: Roger Mac Ginty
Author: Harry Anastasiou
Author: Ece Özlem Atikcan
Author: Della Porta, Donatella