Institutionalizing Peace: Power Sharing and Post‐Civil War Conflict Management
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This article examines how power‐sharing institutions might best be designed to stabilize the transition to enduring peace among former adversaries following the negotiated settlement of civil wars. We identify four different forms of power sharing based on whether the intent of the policy is to share or divide power among rivals along its political, territorial, military, or economic dimension. Employing the statistical methodology of survival analysis to examine the 38 civil wars resolved via the process of negotiations between 1945 and 1998, we find that the more dimensions of power sharing among former combatants specified in a peace agreement the higher is the likelihood that peace will endure. We suggest that this relationship obtains because of the unique capacity of power‐sharing institutions to foster a sense of security among former enemies and encourage conditions conducive to a self‐enforcing peace.
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Hartzell and Hoddie conclude that only extensive and multifaceted power sharing provides the former warring parties with the necessary sense of security to engage in lasting cooperation.
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From Dynamics and Logics of Civil War (2017) · cites this paper as Hartzell and Hoddie (2003)
Hartzell and Hoddie (2003) find that postconflict peace tends to be stable in proportion to how many dimensions of power-sharing are included in peace agreements.
“Analyzing the political, territorial, military, and economic power-sharing provisions in peace agreements, Hartzell and Hoddie (2003) find that postconflict peace tends to be stable in proportion to how many of these dimensions are included in such agreements.”
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- Authors
- Hartzell, C., & Hoddie, M.
- Affiliations
- Gettysburg College (US)
- Texas A&M University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Political Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2003-04
- Volume
- 47
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 318-332
- ISSN
- 0092-5853 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-5907
- OpenAlex
- W2097015242
- Cited by
- 709
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 19.53
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Political Science (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Peacebuilding and International Security
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
- Keywords
- power sharing, peace agreements, negotiated settlement, peace durability, ex-combatants, institutional design, security, political power sharing
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