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Introduction: Migration and Divided Societies

open access: yesEthnopolitics, 2011
The academic literature on divided societies emerged from the study of colonial societies that were characterized by sharp and persistent cleavage along ethnic lines, and the study of consociational democracies in which there are power-sharing arrangements between two or more groups in an ethnically segmented society.
Gilligan, Chris, Ball, Susan
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Rights in Divided Societies

open access: yes, 2012
This collection examines the role and value of rights in divided and post-conflict societies, approaching the subject from a comparative and theoretical perspective.
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A society divided

HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 2015
Christianity invites one to consider it as an antisocial and disembedding force, in particular as hostile to tradition and hostile to collective modes of life. Colonial-era evangelists to Papua New Guinea (PNG) called on people to break traditional rules and, in their words, come out of the darkness.
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Constitutional Design in Divided Societies: the Ethiopian approachConstitutional Design in Divided Societies

2022
One of the biggest challenges divided societies, in which identity conflicts spill over into political or become political, face is how to manage conflict that arise from or are based on ethnic, linguistic, religious differences. Among a variety of responses, constitutional design is one.
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Divided Space or Divided Society?

2020
This chapter focuses on practices of divisions in everyday life in Vukovar, Eastern Croatia. This city was an arena of destroyed armed conflict at the beginning of the 1990s. The main thesis of the author is that divisions are not geographically visible, but they mainly occur in public and ‘private’ spaces.
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Dividing Friendly Societies

Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 1938
Section 28 of the Friendly Societies Act 1896 provides for the assets and liabilities of every registered friendly society to be valued at least once in every five years but gives the Chief Registrar of Friendly Societies the power to grant exemption from valuation in suitable cases.
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Democracy in Divided Societies

2001
Democracy is inherently difficult in societies divided along deep ethnic cleavages. Elections in such societies will often encourage 'centrifugal' politics which reward extremist ethnic appeals, zero-sum political behaviour and ethnic conflict, and which consequently often lead to the breakdown of democracy.
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Policing a Divided Society

1995
Issues concerning policing policies, structures and practices — and the administration of justice in general — have been central to the polarisation of Northern Irish society since the establishment of the state, and they continue to divide the two communities.
Andrew Hamilton, Linda Moore
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Education in Divided Societies

2004
Foreword and Acknowledgements The Holocaust We Are All Ethnic Now Psychological Perspectives on Prejudice Structural Solutions: European Examples Civil War to Civil Rights From Civil Rights to Afrocentrism and Beyond 'Race' and Education in Britain From Apartheid to Democracy: Education in South Africa Community Relations and Education in Northern ...
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