Democracy and Ethnic Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Advancing Peace in Deeply Divided Societies

   1. Introduction: Advancing Peace in Deeply Divided Societies

      • Adrian Guelke

      Pages 1-4

3. Theoretical Overview

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. Transforming Ethnic Orders to Pluralist Regimes: Theoretical, Comparative and Historical Analysis

      • Ilan Peleg

      Pages 7-25

4. Case Studies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27

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   2. Divided Societies: Electoral Polarisation and the Basque Country

      • Luis Moreno

      Pages 29-51

   3. The Arab Minority in Israeli Politics: Between ‘Ethnic Democracy’ and ‘Democratic Integration’

      • Benyamin Neuberger

      Pages 52-79

   4. The Autonomy Puzzle: Territorial Solutions to the Kashmir Conflict

      • Robert G. Wirsing

      Pages 80-103

   5. The ‘Velvet Divorce’ of Czechoslovakia as a Solution to a Conflict of Nationalisms

      • Radka Havlová

      Pages 103-117

   6. Leadership and Developing Democracy Where There is None

      • Hugh O’Doherty

      Pages 118-135

5. Comparative Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137

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   2. Using Public Opinion Polls to Support Peace Processes: Practical Lessons from Northern Ireland, Macedonia, Cyprus, Israel and Palestine

      • Colin Irwin

      Pages 139-167

   3. The Politics of Imitation: The Role of Comparison in Peace Processes

      • Adrian Guelke

      Pages 168-183

   4. The Concept of Justice in the Early Post-Conflict Transitional Period: A Comparative Perspective

      • Marcia Byrom Hartwell

      Pages 184-195

   5. Punishment, Amnesty and Truth: Legal and Political Approaches

      • Tom Hadden

      Pages 196-217

   6. Deepening Democracy and Ethno-Political Mobilisation: A Survey of Five Cases

      • Britt Cartrite

      Pages 218-238

   7. Conclusion: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict

      • Adrian Guelke

      Pages 239-251

6. Back Matter

   Pages 252-254

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Democracy and Ethnic Conflict addresses the problem of establishing durable democratic institutions in societies afflicted by ethnic conflict. While the holding of multi-party elections usually plays a role in the ending of conflict, consolidating democracy presents a much larger challenge, as does preventing the perversion of democracy through the dominance of a particular ethnic group.

• conflict
• democracy
• desegregation
• Institution
• Israel
• nationalism

• Queen’s University, Belfast, UK

  Adrian Guelke

BRITT CARTRITE Department of Political Science, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA TOM HADDEN School of Law, Queens University Belfast, UK MARCIA BYROM HARTWELL Queen Elizabeth House Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UK RADKA HAVLOVÁ Jan Masaryk Centre of International Relations, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic COLIN IRWIN School of Politics, Queens University Belfast, UK LUIS MORENO Research Professor, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain BENYAMIN NEUBERGER Professor of Political Science, Open University of Israel HUGH O'DOHERTY John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA ILAN PELEG Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law, Lafayette College, USA ROBERT G. WIRSING Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

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