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Ethnic Conflicts and Peace-Building

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The chapter highlights the challenges to resolve and/or transform ethnic conflicts and bring peace to ethnically divided societies through peacebuilding activities. Using examples of ethnic civil wars in Africa, the chapter discusses some of the more common ways used in the attempts to resolve or transform these types of armed conflicts, focusing on consociational democracy and regional autonomy formulas.

This chapter is part of a research project funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) – Grant 2016/21211-8.

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Aguilar, S.L.C. (2019). Ethnic Conflicts and Peace-Building. In: Ratuva, S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2898-5_46

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