Conflict Resolution
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The EU as a Global Conflict Manager
This talk at the Cambridge International Studies Association analyses European Union’s increasing role as a conflict manager.
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The politics of self-determination in Moldova and Transnistria
My talk for the LSEE Visiting Speakers Programme focused on the prospects of resolving the...
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Ethnic Accommodation and Power-Sharing: 10 Years after the Ohrid Framework Agreement
The success of the Ohrid Framework Agreement of 2001 was possible because institutions of territorial self-governance were carefully designed to match the specific context of the situation in Macedonia, the international community, especially NATO and the EU, were ready to assist in the negotiation, implementation and operation of the agreement, and above all local leaders from both communities were, and are, willing and able to commit credibly to peaceful coexistence.
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A resolvable frozen conflict? Designing a settlement for Transnistria
This article analyses a range of existing proposals that reflect the Moldovan, Russian/Transnistrian, and Mediators’ positions to date and proposes a framework in which these proposals, and the relative consensus they exhibit, can be accommodated.
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The Aland Example of International Conflict Resolution
This conference concludes a two-year research project by the Åland Islands Peace Institute on the...
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Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering...
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The Merits and Perils of Territorial Accommodation
Subsequently published in Political Studies Review (vol. 9, no. 1, 2011) this review essay...
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Two decades of 'frozen' conflicts in the post-Soviet space
At the end of 2011, it will be twenty years since the dissolution of the...
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Prospects and Opportunities for Conflict Resolution in the Post-Soviet Space
Co-organised with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and sponsored by the Department of Political...
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Negotiating with the Taliban: A promising exit strategy?
A political settlement will only be possible and sustainable if both the Afghan government and the Taliban commit to it credibly and if it has broad regional and international support during its negotiation and implementation.
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The EU’s New European Neighbourhood Policy
On 25 May 2011, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and...
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Independence, Annexation, or Re-integration?
This guest lecture at the University of Konstanz looks at the international administration of disputed...
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Leadership, Diplomacy, and Institutional Design
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the Brandt School’s speaker series, my talk engages...
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The conflict in Transnistria: where things are, why, and where they might be going
For almost two decades, the brief and comparatively not very intense violent conflict between Transnistria...
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Expert Workshop on Conflict Management in Transnistria
I was the opening speaker at an Expert Workshop on Conflict Management in Moldova at...
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The Prospects of a Sustainable Conflict Settlement for Transnistria
The conflict over Transnistria in Moldova has made little progress towards a settlement since the...
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Iraq at a Crossroads: Implications of the New Government
In my contribution to this special corporate briefing, I focus on the challenge of dealing...
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Liberal Consociationalism in Theory and Practice
My talk for the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Programme at King’s College London focuses...
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A Resolvable Frozen Conflict? The Domestic and International Politics of Self-Determination in Moldova and Transnistria
As part of the 10th Anniversary Celebrations at the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination at Princeton...
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A Resolvable Frozen Conflict?
This working paper offers a conceptually grounded comparison of five past proposals for settling the...
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Approaches to Conflict Resolution in Divided Societies
The Many Uses of Territorial Self-Governance This paper, published in the Ethnopolitics Papers series of the...
