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Governing Ethnic Conflict

This book offers an intellectual history of an emerging technology of peace and explains how the liberal state has come to endorse illiberal subjects and practices.

The idea that conflicts are problems that have causes and therefore solutions rather than winners and losers has gained momentum since the end of the Cold War, and it has become more common for third-party mediators acting in the name of liberal internationalism to promote the resolution of intra-state conflicts. These third-party peace makers appear to share lessons and expertise so that it is possible to speak of an emergent common technology of peace based around a controversial form of power-sharing known as consociation.

In this common technology of peace, the cause of conflict is understood to be competing ethno-national identities and the solution is to recognise these identities, and make them useful to government through power-sharing. Drawing on an analysis of the peace process in Ireland and the Dayton Accords in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the book argues that the problem with consociational arrangements is not simply that they institutionalise ethnic division and privilege particular identities or groups, but, more importantly, that they close down the space for other ways of being. By specifying identity categories, consociational regimes create a residual category, designated other. These others not only offer a challenge to prevailing ideas about identity but also stand in reproach to conventional wisdom regarding the management of conflict.

This book will be of much interest to students of conflict resolution, ethnic conflict, identity, and war and conflict studies in general.

Andrew Finlay is Lecturer in Sociology at Trinity College, Dublin.

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Governing Ethnic Conflict

Consociation, identity and the price of peace

Andrew Finlay

Governing Ethnic Conflict

Consociation, identity and the price of peace

Andrew Finlay

First published 2011
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2011 Andrew Finlay

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Finlay, Andrew.
Governing ethnic conflict: consociation, identity, and the price of peace / Andrew Finlay
p. cm.
1. Ethnic conflict. 2. EthnicityPolitical aspects. 3. State, The.
4. Cultural pluralism. I. Title.
HM1121.F56 2010
305.8001dc22
2010002332

ISBN 0-203-84731-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN13: 9780415498036 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780203847312 (ebk)

To Margaret and the memory of Vera and Roy

Contents

Abbreviations

AAI	Anglo-Irish Agreement, 1985
CTG	Cultural Traditions Group
ECHR	European Convention for Human Rights
ETA	Euskadi Ta Askatasuna
GFA	Good Friday Agreement, 1998
IRA	Irish Republican Army
NIHRC	Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission
NILP	Northern Ireland Labour Party
OFMDFM	Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister
PR	Proportional Representation
PUP	Progressive Unionist Party
SACHR	The Standing Advisory Commission on Human Rights
SDLP	Social Democratic and Labour Party
UDA	Ulster Defence Association
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation
UVF	Ulster Volunteer Force

Preface and acknowledgements

More punk less folk! This was the response of a Bosnian community relations worker to a sceptical remark I had made about treating culture as both the cause of conflict and its solution. He described the typical successful interethnic (intercultural) project favoured by international donors as one that ended with a blend of folklore[s] we sing each other songs, tell jokes. For him, this kind of project was anything but successful: from my perspective, this is just a reproduction/reinforcement of differences. The kind of cultural project he would like to develop if only he could get the funds would be based in alternative (underground, countercultural, OFF, call it as you like) cultural paradigms, which offer additional points of identification, potential (not necessary) transcendence of ethnic identity. He thought that working with youth was particularly important because they had been raised in an ideological environment where ethnicity was paramount. Hence: more punk less folk! (personal communication, 4 December 2009 and 12 December 2009).

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