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Author: Lars-Erik Cederman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108418147 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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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: Lars-Erik Cederman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108418147 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
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: Lars-Erik Cederman Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108304516 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 331
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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: Monica Duffy Toft Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400831997 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 245
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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: Siobhan Byrne Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 9781032148762 Category : Conflict management Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: Philip G. Roeder Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801489747 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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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: Richard Kozul-Wright Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1849665869 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 237
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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: Matthew Nanes Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108839053 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 257
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In divided societies, representation in the police that empowers previously-marginalized groups reduces crime, builds trust, and improves citizen-state relations.
Author: Emily Meyer Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages :
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ABSTRACT: Why do power-sharing arrangements fail to promote long-term peace in some civil wars and not in others? Recent work on the subject has shown that power-sharing institutions do increase the likelihood that peace will last; however, the bulk of the work does not explain the conditions under which power-sharing agreements will fail. I argue that a critical factor in determining peace stability is how military power-sharing agreements are applied in different types of conflict. Military power-sharing should only alleviate security concerns in ethnic conflicts and may actually deteriorate the peace in ideological conflicts.
Author: Laura Zanotti Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271072261 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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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: Lars-Erik Cederman
Author: Lars-Erik Cederman
Author: Lars-Erik Cederman
Author: Monica Duffy Toft
Author: Allison McCulloch
Author: Siobhan Byrne
Author: Philip G. Roeder
Author: Richard Kozul-Wright
Author: Matthew Nanes
Author: Emily Meyer
Author: Laura Zanotti