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Democratic Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies:

From Conflict to Common Ground

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  • © 2014

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Authors:
  1. Juan E. Ugarriza

    1. Faculty of Law, El Rosario University, Colombia

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  2. Didier Caluwaerts

    1. Harvard Kennedy School, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Deliberation in Contexts of Conflict: An Introduction

    1. Deliberation in Contexts of Conflict: An Introduction

      • Juan E. Ugarriza, Didier Caluwaerts
      Pages 1-8

  3. Obstacles and Opportunities for Deliberation in Divided Societies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Deliberative Democracy in Northern Ireland: Opportunities and Challenges for Consensus in a Consociational System

      • Katy Hayward
      Pages 11-34

    3. Deliberative Stress in Linguistically Divided Belgium

      • Didier Caluwaerts, Min Reuchamps
      Pages 35-52

    4. Deliberation and Democracy at the End of Armed Conflict: Postconflict Opportunities in the Basque Country

      • Sanjay Jeram, Daniele Conversi
      Pages 53-72

    5. The Citizens, the Politicians and the Courts: A Preliminary Assessment of Deliberative Capacity in Colombia

      • Margarita M. Orozco, Juan E. Ugarriza
      Pages 73-88

    6. Barriers to Inter-group Deliberation in Divided Ukraine

      • Anastasiya Salnykova
      Pages 89-111

    7. Federalist Deliberative Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

      • Olabanji Akinola
      Pages 112-128

    8. Manipulative Deliberation in Turkey: Alevis’ Defective Political Engagement and Remedying Strategies

      • Kivanç Ulusoy
      Pages 129-150

    9. Language Policy and Inter-group Deliberation in Israel

      • Aviad Rubin
      Pages 151-171

    10. Experiences with Deliberation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

      • Sahar Aurore Saeidnia
      Pages 172-185

  4. What Does a Deliberative Democracy Look Like in a Divided Society?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. When Deliberation Remains Out of Reach: The Role of Agonistic Engagement in Divided Societies

      • Sarah Maddison
      Pages 189-205

    3. Beating the Odds: Confrontational Deliberative Democracy

      • Didier Caluwaerts, Juan E. Ugarriza
      Pages 206-217

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 219-225
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About this book

Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understand the conditions that deliberative democracies could realistically emerge in difficult circumstances

Authors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Law, El Rosario University, Colombia

    Juan E. Ugarriza

  • Harvard Kennedy School, USA

    Didier Caluwaerts

About the authors

Juan E. Ugarriza earned his PhD from the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Previously, he received an MA in history at the University of North Carolina, United States. His areas of academic interest are the deepening of democracy in contexts of conflict and the role of ideology in the twenty-first century. His work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the International Journal of Conflict Management and the Journal of Public Deliberation. Currently, he is a faculty professor and researcher at El Rosario University (Bogota) and leads a team of researchers exploring the use of deliberative practices as a political reconciliation strategy in postconflict Colombia.

Didier Caluwaerts is a Democracy fellow at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research focuses on deliberative and participatory democracy in ethnically divided societies, and his work has been published in the European Political Science Review and the Journal of Public Deliberation.

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