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Edited by Ugarriza, E.; Edited by Caluwaerts, D.

Short /annotation:
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

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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

Table of contents:
1. Deliberation in Contexts of Conflict. An Introduction; Juan E. Ugarriza and Didier Caluwaerts PART I: OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR DELIBERATION IN DIVIDED SOCIETIES 2. Deliberative Democracy in Northern Ireland. Opportunities and Challenges for Consensus in a Consociational System; Katy Hayward 3. Deliberative Stress in Linguistically Divided Belgium; Didier Caluwaerts and Min Reuchamps 4. Deliberation and Democracy at the End of Armed Conflict. Post-Conflict Opportunities in the Basque Country; Sanjay Jeram and Daniele Conversi 5. The Citizens, the Politicians and the Courts: A Preliminary Assessment of Deliberative Capacity in Colombia; Margarita M. Orozco and Juan E. Ugarriza 6. Barriers to Inter-Group Deliberation in Divided Ukraine; Anastasiya Salnykova 7. Federalist Deliberative Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects; Olabanji Akinola 8. Manipulative Deliberation in Turkey: Alevis” Defective Political Engagement and Remedying Strategies; Kivanç Ulusoy 9. Language Policy and Inter-group Deliberation in Israel; Aviad Rubin 10. Experiences with Deliberation in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Sahar Aurore Saeidnia PART II: WHAT DOES A DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY LOOK LIKE IN A DIVIDED SOCIETY? 11. When Deliberation Remains out of Reach: The Role of Agonistic Engagement in Divided Societies; Sarah Maddison 12. Beating the Odds: Confrontational Deliberative Democracy; Didier Caluwaerts and Juan E. Ugarriza

Review quote:
“The book is global in orientation with cases as diverse as Iran and Belgium, Colombia and Nigeria. (…) The real strength of the book stems from the generalizations that emerge from the comparison of these cases. Through the analysis of historical, institutional, cultural and psychological factors, it becomes clear where the potential, but also the limits for deliberation in deeply divided societies are.” – Jurg Steiner, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA and University of Bern, Switzerland

Biographical note:
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 Poli