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Examines the dominance of the conflict paradigm in post-conflict political institutions
Explores gender and minority ethnicity in Northern Ireland and Kosovo during conflict and in the post-conflict political environment
Further develops and operationalizes an analytical framework to measure inclusion in political systems
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham, UK
“Does the promotion of political accommodation between the contending parties in an ethno-nationalist conflict disadvantage other groups in society? This important question is at the heart of Michael Potter's nuanced study of post-settlement parliaments in Kosovo and Northern Ireland, in which he probes their record of representativeness, focusing on gender and ethnicity. His meticulous research, drawing on extensive fieldwork, shows that the domination of the parliaments by parties aligned to the conflict does indeed tend to marginalise other identities. His findings provide plenty of food for thought for practitioners in the field of conflict resolution. In particular, they underline the need for care in the design of institutional arrangements for deeply divided societies, so as to minimise potentially negative consequences that priority for accommodation and reconciliation may have for other issues and for the practice of inclusion.”
Adrian Guelke, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
“Identity is a central organising principle of politics in the 21st century. In this impressive book Michael Potter shows that a focus on gender and minority ethnic identities in newly-formed post-conflict assemblies provides a unique litmus test of the robustness of democratic politics. He analyses the cases of Kosovo and Northern Ireland with rigour and considerable insight. This book makes a highly original and lasting contribution to theory and practice in post-conflict settings world-wide.”Yvonne Galligan, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
This book examines inclusion in post-conflict legislatures, using Northern Ireland and Kosovo as case studies and gender and minority ethnicity as indicators. The analysis uses an adapted framework developed by Yvonne Galligan and Sara Clavero to measure inclusion across a range of factors associated with deliberative democratic principles. The logic is that political systems designed to accommodate communities in conflict will prioritise certain identities over others. The aim of the book is to investigate how identities not directly associated with a conflict fare in a political system designed to manage identities in conflict. The book looks comparatively at the conflicts in Kosovo and Northern Ireland, then discusses approaches to conflict management, describing how political institutions were designed in those contexts. The themes of women and minority identities in those conflicts are then explored with a view to examining the extent of inclusion in the Northern Ireland and Kosovo Assemblies.
Keywords
- post-conflict
- conflict management
- institutional design
- identities in conflict
- Kosovo
- Northern Ireland
- women
- minority ethnic groups
- Kosovo Assembly
- Northern Ireland Assembly
- power-sharing
- consociationalism
- representation
- presence theory
- critical mass theory
- democracy
- deliberative democracy
- sexual violence
- conflict paradigm
- conflict elites
Authors and Affiliations
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Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, UK
Michael Potter
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures
Book Subtitle: The Kosovo and Northern Ireland Assemblies
Authors: Michael Potter
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25536-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25535-0Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25538-1Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25536-7Published: 10 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 310
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Conflict Studies, Terrorism and Political Violence, Peace Studies, Legislative and Executive Politics, European Politics, Democracy