Territorial Self-governance
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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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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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A Consociational Theory of Conflict Management
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the IBEI speaker series, I gave a talk...
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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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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...
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Governing (in) Kirkuk
Published in International Affairs, this article focuses on the dynamics of the process of settling...
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Ethnic Conflict Resolution as Institutional Design: The Case of the Western Balkans
This article, co-authored with Zoran Ilievski from the University of Skopje, Macedonia, develops a classification...
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Idiosyncrasy or Foresight: Pre-1990 Cases of Territorial Autonomy in Europe
Published in Asymmetric Autonomy and the Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts (ed. by Marc Weller and...
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Consociationalism, Power Sharing, and Politics at the Center
Published in The International Studies Encyclopedia (edited by Robert A. Denemark, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), this chapter...
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Resolving Territorial Self-determination Conflicts
Territorial self-determination conflicts are conflicts in which territorially concentrated identity groups (whose identity is, in...
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Content and Context: Autonomy and Conflict Settlement in Sudan
Co-authored with Martin Ottmann, this paper starts with conceptual exploration of the utility of autonomy...
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Complex Power Sharing and the Centrality of Territorial Self-governance in Contemporary Conflict Settlements
Published in Ethnopolitics (vol. 8, no. 1, 2009), this article contends that three key characteristics...
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Peace by Design? Self-determination and Power Sharing in Divided Societies
Examining self-governing regimes in 11 cases in Africa, Asia and Europe, I evaluate the particular...
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Resolving Self-determination Conflicts: The Emerging Practice of Complex Power Sharing
Contemporary conflict resolution practice is substantially different from significant parts of traditional conflict resolution theory....
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Situating Complex Power Sharing in the Conflict Settlement Literature
The existing literature on conflict settlement offers both normative accounts of the desirability, and empirical...
