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Title: | Explaining and Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Towards a Cultural Theory of Democracy |
Author: | Jinadu, L. Adele |
Year: | 2004 |
Periodical: | African Journal of Political Science |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 1-26 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Africa Ethiopia Nigeria |
Subjects: | ethnic relations plural society Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
External link: | https://journals.uj.ac.za/index.php/ajps/article/view/1074/691 |
Abstract: | Situating the salience of ethnic conflicts in the character of the State as a partisan and major source of ethnic conflict, this articles argues that changing the character of the State by making access to it more inclusive of significant ethnic groups in a country may reasonably be expected to lessen rather than deepen ethnic conflict. Using Ethiopia and Nigeria as examples, the author shows how federal-type consociational powersharing constitutional arrangements can be strategically utilized to achieve such an objective. Such arrangements divide or fracture and structure the sovereignty of the State in such a way that significant ethnic groups have their own 'sovereignty' within their natal or local spaces, while entrenching their participation within the national 'sovereign' space through provisions for mutual control of the State at that level. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |