Democratic Deliberation in Deeply Divided Societies:

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Deliberation in Contexts of Conflict: An Introduction

   1. Deliberation in Contexts of Conflict: An Introduction

      • Juan E. Ugarriza, Didier Caluwaerts

      Pages 1-8

3. Obstacles and Opportunities for Deliberation in Divided Societies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. Deliberative Democracy in Northern Ireland: Opportunities and Challenges for Consensus in a Consociational System

      • Katy Hayward

      Pages 11-34

   3. Deliberative Stress in Linguistically Divided Belgium

      • Didier Caluwaerts, Min Reuchamps

      Pages 35-52

   4. Deliberation and Democracy at the End of Armed Conflict: Postconflict Opportunities in the Basque Country

      • Sanjay Jeram, Daniele Conversi

      Pages 53-72

   5. The Citizens, the Politicians and the Courts: A Preliminary Assessment of Deliberative Capacity in Colombia

      • Margarita M. Orozco, Juan E. Ugarriza

      Pages 73-88

   6. Barriers to Inter-group Deliberation in Divided Ukraine

      • Anastasiya Salnykova

      Pages 89-111

   7. Federalist Deliberative Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects

      • Olabanji Akinola

      Pages 112-128

   8. Manipulative Deliberation in Turkey: Alevis’ Defective Political Engagement and Remedying Strategies

      • Kivanç Ulusoy

      Pages 129-150

   9. Language Policy and Inter-group Deliberation in Israel

      • Aviad Rubin

      Pages 151-171

   10. Experiences with Deliberation in the Islamic Republic of Iran

       • Sahar Aurore Saeidnia

       Pages 172-185

4. What Does a Deliberative Democracy Look Like in a Divided Society?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187

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   2. When Deliberation Remains Out of Reach: The Role of Agonistic Engagement in Divided Societies

      • Sarah Maddison

      Pages 189-205

   3. Beating the Odds: Confrontational Deliberative Democracy

      • Didier Caluwaerts, Juan E. Ugarriza

      Pages 206-217

5. Back Matter

   Pages 219-225

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Through case-analysis and cross-sectional assessment of eleven countries this collection explores the most deeply divided societies in the world in order to highlight what deliberative democracy looks like in a deeply divided society and to understand the conditions that deliberative democracies could realistically emerge in difficult circumstances

• Armed conflict
• conflict
• Deliberation
• democracy
• Engagement
• Israel
• Policy

• Faculty of Law, El Rosario University, Colombia

  Juan E. Ugarriza

• Harvard Kennedy School, USA

  Didier Caluwaerts

Juan E. Ugarriza earned his PhD from the Institute of Political Science at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Previously, he received an MA in history at the University of North Carolina, United States. His areas of academic interest are the deepening of democracy in contexts of conflict and the role of ideology in the twenty-first century. His work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the International Journal of Conflict Management and the Journal of Public Deliberation. Currently, he is a faculty professor and researcher at El Rosario University (Bogota) and leads a team of researchers exploring the use of deliberative practices as a political reconciliation strategy in postconflict Colombia.

Didier Caluwaerts is a Democracy fellow at the Ash Center of the Harvard Kennedy School and a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research focuses on deliberative and participatory democracy in ethnically divided societies, and his work has been published in the European Political Science Review and the Journal of Public Deliberation.

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