The Political Dynamics of Secession and Institutional Accommodation

Meadwell, Hudson

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“…Scholars are basically divided into two camps: One the one hand the proponents, arguing that regional autonomy can be a suitable solution for multi-ethnic societies (Ghai, 2000;Wolff, 2013), and on the other hand the critics, arguing that autonomy fosters separatist tendencies (Meadwell, 2009;Chapman & Roeder, 2007).…”

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Ethnic Conflict Regulation Through Territorial Autonomy – A Configurational Analysis of Success and Failure

Schulte¹

2018

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Territorial autonomies (TA) are increasingly implemented as tools forregulating ethnic conflicts. Since there are successful as well as failed cases,the ongoing debate about a general conflict-solving potential is not a veryfruitful one. The article turns towards the analysis of various factors affectingthe success and failure of conflict regulating autonomies. It is argued thatautonomy consolidation requires specific conditions which support theprocess of mutual recognition between ethnic groups. Two causal models aredeveloped and tested on a global data set on all conflict regulatingautonomies using a two-step Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA). It isfound that a combination of low horizontal inequalities, a high scope ofautonomy, inclusive institutions and international support lead to autonomysuccess whereas persistent inequalities, a low scope of transferredcompetencies and exclusive institutions result in a return to violent strategies.One important implication of these findings is that favorable conditions forpost-conflict institutional engineering can, at least to some extent, be created.

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Ethnic Conflict Regulation Through Territorial Autonomy – A Configurational Analysis of Success and Failure

Schulte¹

2018

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“…The above analysis shows that the Jarso challenged what can be called ‘the territorial status quo’ (Meadwell, 2009: 231) of the Somali Regional State through their identity-based collective mobilization towards protective territoriality. On their part, the Somali Region confronted the Oromiya Region by laying claims to the Jarso-Girhi territory and other territories in the region.…”

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Politics of Protective Territoriality and Governance Challenges in the Geography of Networked Human Connectivity: the Jarso-Girhi case in Eastern Ethiopia

Hussein

Kenee

Wentzell

2016

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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By focusing on the case of the Jarso and the Girhi in eastern Ethiopia, this article seeks to contribute to comparative studies on the social, territorial and relational effects of the effort at political and administrative decentralization in multi-ethnic settings. The article analyses the political and social implications of the elements that constitute impediments to social cohesion and socio-economic interaction in the study area. The data required for the study were collected through fieldwork that involved interviews, focus group discussions and field observations. On the basis of the analysis, the article recommends what should be done to create a relational politics of place in which places and spaces that connect people remain open, discontinuous, relational and internally diverse.

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“…Territorial self-governance establishes the legally entrenched power of territorially delimited entities within the internationally recognized boundaries of existing states to exercise public policy functions independently of other sources of authority in this state, but subject to its overall legal order (Wolff, 2013: 32). A vigorous debate has been ongoing within the civil conflict literature between scholars arguing that the dispersion of power through territorial self-governance arrangements mitigates conflict by affording identity groups a degree of recognition, control and security, and those who maintain that such arrangements aggravate conflict by accentuating differences and providing rebels with greater opportunities to challenge the state, and potentially secede (Bormann et al, 2019;Cederman et al, 2015;Elkins and Sides, 2007;Horowitz, 1985;McGarry, 2007;Meadwell, 2009;Nordlinger, 1972;Vogt et al, 2015). These arguments revolve around the extent of the powers enjoyed by distinct levels of government as well as the foundation of the legitimate exercise of these powers.…”

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The dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC)

Fontana

Kartsonaki

Neudorfer

et al. 2020

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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This paper introduces the new dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC) and presents its first application. PAIC captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016. It provides information on 91 variables, along five dimensions: power sharing, transitional justice, cultural institutions, territorial self-governance and international assistance. First, the paper presents the data collection and coding procedures. Then it replicates Hartzell’s and Hoddie’s (2007, Crafting Peace, The Pennsylvania State University Press) seminal study on the relationship between power sharing and negotiated agreements, showing the long-term importance of a previously overlooked realm: commissions.

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The Political Dynamics of Secession and Institutional Accommodation

Cited by 13 publications

References 23 publications

Ethnic Conflict Regulation Through Territorial Autonomy – A Configurational Analysis of Success and Failure

Ethnic Conflict Regulation Through Territorial Autonomy – A Configurational Analysis of Success and Failure

Politics of Protective Territoriality and Governance Challenges in the Geography of Networked Human Connectivity: the Jarso-Girhi case in Eastern Ethiopia

The dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC)

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