Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures The Kosovo and Northern Irel
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Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures
Michael Potter
Inclusion in Post-Conflict Legislatures The Kosovo and Northern Ireland Assemblies
Michael Potter Centre for the Study of Ethnic Conflict Queen’s University Belfast Belfast, UK
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Preface
This book is about investigating how ordinary people are marginalised or excluded by prevailing political and social forces created by the particular circumstances of where they live. In this instance, it is the effects of the design of political institutions to manage conflict between particular identities on other identities that are not directly associated with the conflict, women and minority ethnic identities being used here as examples. I am not taking the view that women and minority ethnic groups do not participate in violent conflict. Of course they do. But a broad range of literature recognises conflict as a masculinist project, and I do not oppose this view. Also, it is clear that for the most part conflict based on ethnic identity does not have much meaning for the majority of people who are not of the identities in conflict. Women and minority ethnic groups are also relatively easy to identify, so they make useful analytical categories. I have chosen Northern Ireland and Kosovo as the regions for study. I am in no way implying that they are comparable as contexts, but there are interesting themes that are manifested in both places. Ironically, duri
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