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The Politics of Constitutional Design in Divided Societies: The Case of Kosovo

open access: yesCroatian Yearbook of European Law and Policy, 2010
This article discusses the politics of constitutional design in Kosovo as a means of softening societal cleavages. The article maps out the problem of societal cleavages in Kosovo, and explains their origins and implications for the state-building ...
Fisnik Korenica, Dren Doli
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How to Arrive at Peace in Deeply Divided Societies? Using Deliberation to Refine Consociational TheoryHow to Arrive at Peace in Deeply Divided Societies? Using Deliberation to Refine Consociational Theory

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019
In the 1960s, consociational theory was developed to explain how deeply divided societies can arrive at peace. The theory had, on the one hand, an institutional component with an emphasis on power-sharing institutions and, on the other, a cultural ...
Jürg Steiner, Maria-Clara Jaramillo
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Trust in Divided Societies

open access: yes, 2020
State, Institutions and Governance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine Abdelhadi Alijla Why do certain divided societies lack trust between their members more than others? Why are divided societies more prone to the collapse of social trusts than others?
Orient-Institut Beirut
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Practical Theology in the Islamic Society [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
Practical theology is part of the reflections of Christian theologians that have emerged in the last two centuries especially in the wake of Schleiermacher's works.
Ali Ardeshir Larijani
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Understanding the Other’s “Understanding” of Violence: Legitimacy, Recognition, and the Challenge of Dealing with the Past in Divided Societies

open access: yesInternational Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2009
Post-conflict societies which have achieved a cessation of violence and embarked on a political conflict transformation process cannot in the long-term avoid a process of dealing with the past.
Marcel M. Baumann
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Reason, Deliberation, and Democracy in Divided Societies: Perspectives from the Jafari School of Thought

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2017
In this article I argue that because of its emphasis on the use of reason, the Jafari Islamic school of thought is not only compatible with, but even promotes certain forms of deliberative democracy. I particularly focus on how this characteristic offers
Nicolas Pirsoul
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Constitution-Making for Divided Societies: Afghanistan

open access: yes, 2022
This chapter begins by surveying the current literature on constitutional design constitutions for divided societies and constitutional approaches to power sharing.
Shamshad Pasarlay   +3 more
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Judicial Empowerment in Divided Societies: The Northern Ireland Bill of Rights Process in Comparative Perspective

open access: yes, 2012
No abstract ...
Harvey, C   +3 more
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Deliberation across deep divisions: Transformative moments [PDF]

open access: yesBelgrade Philosophical Annual, 2016
In group discussions of any kind there tends to be an up and down in the level of deliberation. To capture this dynamic we coined the concept of Deliberative Transformative Moments (DTM). In deeply divided societies deliberation is particularly important
Jaramillo Clara Maria   +3 more
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Designing Peace: Cyprus and Institutional Innovations in Divided Societies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Why do some societies choose to adopt federal settlements in the face of acute ethnic conflict, while others do not? Neophytos Loizides examines how acrimoniously divided Cyprus could re-unify by adopting a federal and consociational arrangement ...
Loizides, Neophytos
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