Conference Programme

Exclusion amid Inclusion?: How Power Sharing Engages Non-Dominant Communities

Queen’s University Belfast

9-10 November 2017

Canada Room, Lanyon Building

Programme

Day 1: Thursday November 9

08:30 REGISTRATION OPENS

FROM 0830 COFFEE AVAILABLE

09:00 Opening remarks, Timofey Agarin, Cera Murtagh

09:15 Welcome, Professor Alister Miskimmon, Head of School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics, Queen's University Belfast

09:30-11:00 Panel 1: The ‘Others’ in Power-Sharing Systems

Chair: John Garry, Queen's University Belfast

Jon Fraenkel, Victoria University: Exclusion amid Inclusion: Minorities within Power Sharing Arrangements

Laura Wise, University of Edinburgh: Setting Aside the ‘Others’: Non-Aligned Minorities in Power-Sharing Peace Agreements

Andreas Juon, University College London: In the Name Of: Direct vs. Indirect Ethnic Accommodation and Their Effects on Ethnic Identity Salience

Kevin McNicholl, John Garry & Clifford Stevenson, Queen's University Belfast: A Taxonomy of a National Identity: How the ‘Northern Irish’ identity is understood and used by Young People and Politicians

Coffee

11:30-13:00 Panel 2: Representation and Inclusion of Non-Dominant Identities

Chair: Siobhán Byrne, University of Alberta

Dawn Walsh, Dublin City University: Independent commissions: Power-sharing and gender in post-conflict societies

Michael Potter, Queen's University Belfast: Measuring inclusion in post-conflict political institutions

Stephen Larin, Queen's University, Canada & Marc Röggla, European Academy of Bolzano (EURAC), Italy: Time to invite the ‘Others’ to the table: a proposal to make South Tyrol more inclusive

John Coakley, Queen's University Belfast and University College Dublin: Does Consociation have a Future?

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Parallel Panels 3 & 4

Panel 3, Canada Room

Mobilizing Civic Identities: Collective Actions in Bosnia- Herzegovina

Chair: Cera Murtagh, Queen's University Belfast

Chiara Milan, Scuola Normale Superiore: Reshaping citizenship through collective action: Performative and prefigurative practices in the 2013-14 wave of mobilization in Bosnia Herzegovina

Aline Cateux, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Des Enjeux Contemporains: “Abrašević Mladima !” or the improbable victorious campaign of Mostar’s youth

Felix Fritsch, Independent researcher and Lydia Letsch: Non-Ethnic Mobilization in BiH: Alter-Politics in a Formalized Political Unsettlement

Sarah Sajn, Sciences Po Aix – CHERPA, Aix-en-Provence: Political subjectivation through memory activism: the case of the 2014 commemorations in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Panel 4, Peter Froggatt Centre 03.007

Accommodation by Institutional Design

Chair: Patrick Utz, University of Edinburgh

Emilie Fort, Laval University: When consociational power-sharing means no power at all. The cases of Kosovo Serbs in Kosovo

Nur Köprülü, Near East University & Dr. Gülay Umaner-Duba, University of Helsinki: Rethinking on Consociationalism in Belgium and Lebanon: Opportunities and Constraints

Marie-Sophie Heinelt, University of Hagen: Do We Need Power Sharing Arrangements for Indigenous Groups in Latin America? A Comparison of a Least Likely and a Most Likely Case for Ethnic Peace in Chile and Panama

Coffee

16:00–17:00 Keynote Address by Professor Allison McCulloch, Brandon University: How Soon is Now? Thinking about ‘Later’ in Power-Sharing Theory and Practice

19:00 Conference Dinner: Kathmandu, 9 Botanic Avenue

Day 2 Friday November 10

FROM 0830 COFFEE AVAILABLE

09:30-11:00 Panel 5: Inclusion of Non-Dominant Minorities in Public Sphere

Chair: Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast

Giuditta Fontana, University of Birmingham: Education and Power-Sharing: Aiming to Accommodate or Eliminate non-Dominant Communities?

Clare Rice, Queen's University Belfast: The Challenges of Consociationalism for Anti-Discrimination Law: Comparing Northern Ireland and Belgium

Arianna Piacentini: Non-aligned Citizens. Ethnic power-sharing and non-ethnic alternative identities in Bosnia Herzegovina

Coffee

11:30-13:00 Panel 6: Parties in Power-Sharing Frameworks

Chair: Adrian Guelke, Queen's University Belfast

David Mitchell, Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin at Belfast: The ‘other’ party: the Alliance Party and the politics of power-sharing in Northern Ireland after 1998

Alexandre Raffoul, Université de Montréal: Alliance-Shifting Mechanisms in Practice: Power-sharing and the Key Role of Political Parties in Burundi

Aleksandra Zdeb, University of Graz: Walking on Broken Glass. Political Parties in the Power-Sharing Systems: Two Local Case Studies in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cera Murtagh, Queen's University Belfast: Civic Dilemmas: A Typology of Civic Political Parties in Power-Sharing Systems

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00–15:30 Parallel Panels 7 & 8

Panel 7, Canada Room

Ethnicisation

Chair: Laura Wise, University of Edinburgh

Christoph Niessen, University of Louvain: National Minorities and Self-rule Autonomy. A mvQCA of Diverging Minority Rights in Western Europe

Petr Čermák, Masaryk University: ‘Others’ as political actors in local post-conflict politics. Political behaviour of non-aligned communities in post-conflict settings: Comparative study of Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo

Patrick Utz, University of Edinburgh: South Tyrol’s autonomy: challenged by ‘ethnic outbidding’?

Taylor McConnell, University of Edinburgh: “Vukovar a ne Вуковар”: Civic Institutions, Stigma and Power-Sharing in Croatia’s Serb-Majority Communities

Panel 8, Peter Froggatt Centre 03.011

Institutional Reform to Account for the Exclusion amid Inclusion Problem

Chair: Samuel Beckton, Queen's University Belfast

Samantha Twietmeyer, Queen's University, Canada: Channels for participation in Settlement Negotiations: Northern Ireland and Cyprus in Comparative Perspective

Leo Green, Ulster University: Consociation - Making it work

Przemyslaw Zukiewicz, University of Wroclaw & Dublin City University, Katarzyna Domagala, University of Wroclaw

and Mateusz Zielinski, University of Wroclaw: An attempt to institutionalize power-sharing: lessons from Canada

Jony Essa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Does Security Sector Organization Matter? Continuity and Change in the Exclusion and Inclusion of dominant and non-dominant groups in the Syrian Security Sector

Coffee

16:00–17:30 Panel 9: Gender Rights and Representation in Power-Sharing

Chair: Bronagh Hinds, Democrashe

Danielle Roberts, Ulster University: Power sharing, political participation and PUL women

John O'Doherty, The Rainbow Project, Belfast LGBT Centre: Losing a Winning Battle

Siobhán Byrne, University of Alberta: Feminist reflections on discourses of (power) + (sharing) in conflict resolution theory and practice

Evan Liaras, IE University: The third gender: 'others' in power sharing arrangements

17:30 Closing remarks, Timofey Agarin, Cera Murtagh

18:00 Post-Conference drinks and goodbyes

Day 3: Optional Belfast tour