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Title:Explaining and Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Towards a Cultural Theory of Democracy
Author:Jinadu, L. AdeleISNI
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]
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