Since the end of the Cold War, intra-state or ethnic conflict has emerged as one of the most serious threats to the peace and stability of states in the international system. Inter-religious violence, in particular, and the politicization of new forms of resurgent religion are n…
"9" Result
Sort By:
This dissertation examines the specific problem of North and South Yemen's 1990 unification as a case study of power-sharing in a regionally divided country. At the same time it investigates the more general problem of hegemony in all power-sharing arrangements. Power-sharing th…
Security sector reform has in the recent past been a critical component of peace agreements in countries emerging from armed conflicts or political crisis. In Kenya, the Commission of Inquiry into the 2007/08 Post-Election Violence (CIPEV) established that Kenya’s security secto…
The main focus of this PhD thesis is fundamental investigations into control techniques of inverter-based microgrids. It aims to develop new and improved control techniques to enhance performance and reliability. It focuses on the modelling, stability analysis and control design…
This thesis addresses the issue of finding ways and means of achieving sustainable peace in post-conflict, ethnically divided societies. It examines, in particular, two approaches, the power-sharing and the social transformation approaches, that are generally viewed as opposed t…
Power-sharing theory proposes democratic strategies for managing conflict in deeply-divided societies. The power-sharing literature has been dominated by a debate between two models of power-sharing, the consociational model proposed by Arend Lijphart and the integrative or ince…
For the design of power-sharing practices in deeply divided places, there are two main macro-political strategies: consociationalism, developed and defended by Arend Lijphart, and centripetalism, associated with the work of Donald L. Horowitz. In this thesis, I consider the acad…
Exclusion and violence persist in post-conflict states, despite external assistance to the demilitarization of politics, which the literature emphasizes as the primary goal of aid. Through a field-based study of Tajikistan and a survey of an additional three cases (Cambodia, Gua…