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

By Nils A. Butenschøn,Øyvind Stiansen,Kåre Vollan

in keeping with a distinct comparative research of Burundi, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Nepal, Myanmar, the Philippines, and Fiji this booklet analyses the formal and casual preparations defining the post-conflict political order in those international locations and evaluates no matter if those structures bolstered or weakened the possibilities of creating sustainable peace and lasting democracy. What might be realized from those situations? each one nation has it particular heritage yet they're confronted with similar demanding situations and dilemmas in construction a democratic destiny. Which options appear to give a contribution to democratic balance and which don't? those questions are mentioned in mild of theoretical literature, case reports, and box interviews with the authors concluding that structures in line with proportional illustration provided the easiest customers for together with diversified and conflicting identities and construction unified political structures. The e-book is of specific curiosity to scholars of democracy and peace-building; lecturers in addition to decision-makers and practitioners within the field.

Show description

Read Online or Download Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies: Challenges for Building Peace and Democratic Stability PDF

Best war & peace books

Thirteen Seconds: Confrontation at Kent State

The dramatic and eye-opening unique account of occasions that shook the kingdom. At midday on may perhaps four, 1970, a thirteen-second burst of gunfire reworked the campus of Kent nation collage right into a nationwide nightmare. nationwide shield bullets killed 4 scholars and wounded 9. via dusk the campus was once evacuated and the varsity was once closed.

Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2010: Growing Left-wing Extremism and Religious Violence: Volume 3

This publication examines the main armed conflicts in South Asia. The articles learn clash administration, examine the course the armed clash is probably going to take and supply a collection of different measures that may be pursued through the actors. Designed as an annual sequence, the articles supply a quick old caricature of the emergence of armed clash, outlining its quite a few stages.

To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations (Hoover Institution Press Publication (Hardcover))

Writer Angelo Codevilla asks, what's to be America’s peace? How is it to be received and preserved in our time? He notes that our government’s more and more limitless powers circulate partially from our statesmen’s lack of ability to stick out of wars or to win them and that our statesmen and lecturers have ceased to contemplate such issues.

Greater America in the Age of Rebellion

A compendium of proof and perceptions affecting American policies.

Extra resources for Power-Sharing in Conflict-Ridden Societies: Challenges for Building Peace and Democratic Stability

Example text

Download PDF sample

Rated 4.69 of 5 – based on 25 votes