Conflict Management Institutions in Post-Conflict Governance

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Session Description

How do post-conflict societies create stable democracies and high-quality governing institutions? Post-conflict societies face a number of challenges when constructing effective governance arrangements. Drawing on this year’s conference theme (particularly division calls 11 and 21), this panel will consider the key economic and ethnic dimensions underlying conflict processes, including those that address the role of individual and group perceptions as well as identify patterns and innovative processes of political participation and representation in post-conflict societies. In a departure from work on the challenges of post-conflict governance thrown up by historical legacies or under-development, we will address the effects of the very institutions and processes established to bring peace. In particular, the research to be presented will ask how specific conflict institutions and processes interact with key social processes and citizen attitudes to shape post-conflict governance outcomes. Papers will utilize existing and new comparative country level data, large-n surveys, and experiments to address these questions and provide new insights as to inclusive post-conflict governance. The four papers represented in this panel will explore these questions with respect to the effect of post conflict power sharing on the distribution of power and resources, the effect of peacekeeping on the post-conflict governance, the inclusivity of post-conflict institutions on the prospects for peace implementation and finally citizen attitudes and satisfaction and how those are shaped by alternative border arrangements established to regulate negotiated peace agreements.

Sub Unit

• DIVISION 21: Conflict Processes

Individual Presentations

• Power Sharing and Democracy From Below - Caroline A. Hartzell, Gettysburg College; Matthew Hoddie, Towson University

• The Known Unknowns of UN Peacekeeping and Post-conflict Governance - Baris Ari, Durham University; Wakako Maekawa, University of California, San Diego; Ismene Gizelis, University of Essex

• The Context of Armed Conflicts and Civil Society’s Inclusion in Peace Processes - Marie-Joelle Zahar, Universite de Montreal

• Northern Irish Citizens’ Preferences on Border arrangements after Brexit - Laura Sudulich, University of Kent; Edward Morgan-Jones, University of Kent; Neophytos Loizides; Feargal Cochrane, University of Lancaster

Chair

• Neophytos Loizides

Discussants

• Katherine Collin Georgetown University

• Martin Ottmann University of Birmingham