Citizen Inclusion in Power-Sharing Settlements

公民参与权力分享解决方案

基本信息

批准号：
ES/X010864/1
负责人：
Neophytos Loizides
金额：
$ 64.1万
依托单位：
University of Kent
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2023
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2023 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FX010864%2F1
关键词：
Citizen Inclusion Power Sharing Settlements

项目摘要

Negotiated peace settlements are at the cornerstone of international relations, peace-making, and democratic governance. In conflict zones and deeply divided societies around the world, from Bosnia-Herzegovina and Burundi to Cyprus and Syria, international third-party conflict mediators frequently recommend power-sharing between rival ethnic groups as a means of ending wars and building peace. Yet we still know very little about whether past and current proposals (e.g., by the UN) are seen as acceptable from a citizens' perspective or about how precisely to negotiate, implement, and adapt the most advantageous trade-offs among parties in conflict. Answering these questions is critical to ensure the durability of peace processes, the consolidation of democracy, and potentially the restoration of multi-ethnic societies. In INCLUSIVEPEACE, we propose a comparative and multi-methods research program that investigates how power-sharing settlements emerge, perform, and evolve. We specifically aim to address two common critiques in the study of power-sharing settlements focusing on adoptability and adaptability. First, power-sharing settlements cannot be easily negotiated and adopted and are often negotiated between political elites, excluding the wider society. Secondly, when they are adopted, parties struggle to renegotiate, adapt, or even identify their most problematic provisions, while citizens are given little opportunity to effect change in the new political arrangement. We will address these critiques by using qualitative approaches, including archival research and elite interviews as well as quantitative methods, including experiments and longitudinal public opinion surveys focusing on citizens, community leaders, and government policies in six representative cases around the world.

谈判的和平定居点是国际关系，建立和平与民主治理的基石。在冲突地区和世界各地分裂的社会中，从波斯尼亚 - 黑塞哥维那和布隆迪到塞浦路斯和叙利亚，国际第三方冲突调解人经常建议对手族裔之间的权力共享，以此作为结束战争和建立和平的手段。然而，我们仍然对过去和当前的建议（例如，从联合国）看作是可以接受的，还是从公民的角度看待是可以接受的，还是可以确切地谈判，实施和适应冲突当事方之间最有利的权衡。回答这些问题对于确保和平进程的持久性，民主的巩固以及可能恢复多种族社会至关重要。在包容性方面，我们提出了一个比较和多方法研究计划，该计划研究了电力共享定居点如何出现，执行和发展。我们特别旨在解决针对可采用和适应性的电力共同定居点的两种常见批评。首先，共享的共同定居点不能轻易地谈判和采用，并且经常在政治精英之间进行谈判，不包括更广泛的社会。其次，当他们被采用时，各方努力重新谈判，适应甚至确定他们最有问题的规定，而公民几乎没有机会实现新的政治安排的变化。我们将通过使用定性方法（包括档案研究和精英访谈）以及定量方法来解决这些批评，包括实验和纵向公众舆论调查，这些批评集中在全球六个代表性案件中，重点关注公民，社区领袖和政府政策。