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