Bulletin n. 1/2005
December 2005
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
  • Chijioke Njoku Raphael
    Deadly ethnic conflict and the imperative of power sharing: Could a consociational federalism hold in Rwanda?
    in Commonwealth and Comparative Politics , Vol. 43 n. 1 ,  2005 ,  82 - 101
    Principles of consociationalism and federalism have been successfully adopted by the strategic elites in a number of countries, including some in Africa, turning their once volatile politics into a more amicable order. It is proposed that the best hope for a less conflictual politics in Rwanda resides in an elite disposition towards political accommodation and the adoption of the non-majoritarian political arrangements associated with consociational federalism. This agenda is discussed in light of both the structural dimensions of consociationalism and federalism and, more briefly, of relevant African examples of their utilisation. Application of appropriately configured consociational and federal arrangements is presented as an imperative in such a deeply divided polity, where power commands monopolistic access to available resources and where those in power often employ violence and exclusion to safeguard their interests.
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