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Institutional conflict settlement in divided societies : the role of subgroup identities in self-government arrangements

Juan, Alexander de - 2012

Institutions can contribute to regulating interethnic conflict; however, in many cases they fail to bring about lasting peace. The paper argues that their negligence of intraethnic factors accounts for some of this failure. Ethnic groups are often treated as unitary actors even though most...

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Inclusive institutions and the onset of internal conflict in resource-rich countries

Wegenast, Tim C. - 2010

Studien über die institutionellen Determinanten innerstaatlicher Gewalt legen nahe, dass die Präsenz multipler politischer Parteien das Konfliktpotential innerhalb der Länder reduziert. Es wird behauptet, dass Parteien oppositionelle Gruppierungen in eine institutionalisierte politische Arena...

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Nigeria : a prime example of the resource curse? : Revisiting the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta

Kuhn, Annegret - 2010

This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the 1990s, confirms the differentiated interplay of...

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Fuel for conflict or balm for peace? : Assessing the effects of hydrocarbons on peace efforts in Algeria

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2010

This paper explores the use of hydrocarbon revenues in post-conflict Algeria. While the bloody years of the 1990s now seem to be over, recurring terror attacks and the ongoing state of emergency leave room for doubt that a situation of stable peace has been achieved yet. It is therefore...

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Iran's oil wealth : treasure and trouble for the Shah's regime ; a context-sensitive analysis of the ambivalent impact of resource abundance

Shabafrouz, Miriam - 2009

The Iranian revolution still appears to be a puzzle for theoretical approaches linking political instability and/or violent conflict to the resource wealth of a country. It therefore works well as a case study for the purposes of this paper: to show the necessity of a broader approach to the...

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Managing ethnic conflict : the menu of institutional engineering

Basedau, Matthias - 2011

The debate on institutional engineering offers options to manage ethnic and other conflicts. This contribution systematically assesses the logic of these institutional designs and the empirical evidence on their functioning. Generally, institutions can work on ethnic conflict by either...

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Desertifikation als Sicherheitsrisiko?

Scholvin, Sören - 2009

Bei einem Degradationsgrad der Trockengebiete der Erde von 10-20 % und 250 Millionen betroffenen Menschen ist Desertifikation zweifellos eines der größten gegenwärtigen Umweltprobleme. Mit ihr geht vor allem für die Landwirtschaft ein erheblicher Ertragsverlust einher. Hieraus zu...

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From rivalry to mutual trust : the othering process between Bolivia and Chile

Wehner, Leslie - 2010

Bolivien und Chile leben - als Konsequenz des Salpeter-Krieges (1879-1883) - in einer "Kultur der Rivalität". Seit … diskursive Umsetzung der bilateralen Beziehungen geformt. Während in Bolivien die "Kultur der Rivalität" wegen der angestrebten … Bolivien gäbe. Jedoch zeugt die Betonung der chilenischen Seite als überlegene Kraft gegenüber Bolivien von offener Rivalität …

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Turning legal pluralism into state-sanctioned law : assessing the implications of the new constitutions and laws in Bolivia and Ecuador

Barrera, Anna - 2011

Ethnically diverse societies have long faced the challenge of accommodating distinct and often conflictive normative orders within a single polity. Leaving the ideal of a single, homogeneous legal order aside, many Latin American states have recently acknowledged the right of indigenous peoples...

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