Federalism as a Tool of Conflict Resolution

ISBN 10: 0367692996 / ISBN 13: 9780367692995

Published by Routledge, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Federalism as a Tool of Conflict Resolution
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367692996
• ISBN 13: 9780367692995
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

Looking at the growing use of federalism and decentralization as tools of conflict resolution, this book provides evidence from several case studies on the opportunities and challenges that territorial solutions offer when addressing internal conflicts within a variety of countries.

Federalism has been used as a tool of conflict resolution in a number of conflict situations around the world. The results of this have been mixed at best, with some countries moving slowly to the paths of peace and recovery, while others have returned to violence. This volume looks at a number of case studies in which federalism and decentralization have been promoted in order to bring opposing groups together and protect the territorial integrity of different countries. Yet, it is demonstrated that this has been incredibly difficult, and often overshadowed by wider concerns on secession, de and re-centralization and geopolitics and geoeconomics. While federalism and decentralization might hold the key to keeping war-torn countries together and bringing hostile groups to the negotiation table, we nevertheless need to rethink under which conditions territorial autonomy can help to transform conflict and when it might contribute to an increase in conflict and violence. Federalism alone, so the key message from all contributions, cannot be enough to bring peace – yet, without territorial solutions to ongoing violence, it is also unlikely that peace will be achieved.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

About the Author

Soeren Keil is Reader and Subject Lead in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK.

Elisabeth Alber is Senior Researcher and Program Head (Eurac Research Federal Scholar in Residence) at the Institute for Comparative Federalism at Eurac Research in Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.