Using a power-sharing arrangement to integrate insurgents into a country’s political system, either by granting them government cabinet posts or greater territorial autonomy, has become an increasingly common method by which to pacify violent conflicts. However, power-sharing reinforces patterns of…
Notwithstanding the demands of the United Nations and the region, the polling stations opened on 21 July to move the presidential elections in Burundi. Burundi's Minister of the Interior Edouard Nduwimana had vehemently voiced against a changed time schedule before.Since April 2015 has been protests…
EU and German policymakers often promote federalism as a means to strengthen peace in societies emerging from civil war. In Nepal, however, the 2015 constitution which restructured the country to make it a federal republic has become a driver of new violence. This contribution argues that it is not…
