Consociational Settlements and Reconstruction

Sherrill Stroschein

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2014, vol. 656, issue 1, 97-115

Abstract: Both Bosnia in 1995 and Northern Ireland in 1998 were extremely fragile in the immediate aftermath of brokered peace negotiations. Each instituted a form of consociationalism—a government that institutionalizes a voice for each ethnic group—as an element of brokered peace. In this article, I examine Bosnian postwar governance with comparative insights from Northern Ireland. Bosnia was the recipient of a large amount of international aid. While this aid was crucial to the initial state-building effort, the problems Bosnia now faces are due to its consociational governance structure. Some of the group-based aspects of consociationalism are in tension with individual rights, a problem that cannot be addressed by aid alone.

Keywords: Bosnia; Northern Ireland; consociationalism; consociational; Dayton Agreement; international aid; peace agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716214544459

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