Conference Programme

PSA Specialist Group Ethnopolitics, IPSA Research Committee Politics and Ethnicity, & ESRC Project Exclusion amid Inclusion: Power-Sharing and Non-Dominant Minorities

Political Representation in Divided Societies

Brussels School of International Studies, University of Kent

Brussels, 15-16 November 2018

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Thursday, 15 November (Lecture room 1)

09.00 COFFEE, REGISTRATION

09.15 Opening remarks by Timofey Agarin and Welcome by Amanda Klekowski von Koppenfels, Director of BSIS

09.30-11.15 Panel: Political Leadership in Divided Societies Chair Allison McCulloch

Manufacturing tolerance? Political discourse, electoral campaigns and the expression of inclusive, pro-minority views

Mr Mihail Chiru Catholic University of Louvain

Power-Shifting in Divided Societies: Non-Titular Leadership in Post-Soviet Ukraine and Moldova Compared

Ms Deanna Soloninka University of Edinburgh

Unwanted minorities – normalization of relations as borders adjustment between Serbia and Kosovo

Mr Stefan Surlic University of Belgrade

Personality and territory arrangements in Belgium: reserved seats and descriptive representation in Brussels regional parliament

Mr Régis Dandoy University of Ghent and Ms Chloé Janssen Vrije Universiteit Brussel

11.15 COFFEE BREAK

11.30-13.00 Panel: Consociations and Control Chair Aleksandra Zdeb

Lebanon’s Corporate Consociation: Peace for Some, Exclusion for Others

Mr Drew Mikhael Queens University Belfast

Acculturation Attitudes of the State and the Question of Social Exclusion of the Romani Minority in Macedonia

Ms Iva Dodevska Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest

Rejecting ethnic identity through the census: The case of Bosnian civic campaigns

Mr Laurence Cooley University of Birmingham

From Pillars to Verticals of Power: Are Consociations Plagued by Political Clientelism?

Mr Timofey Agarin Queen’s University Belfast

13.00-14.00 LUNCH

14.00-15.30 Political Representation and its Challenges Chair Timofey Agarin

Ethnicity Matters: Theorizing the Specificity of Ethnic Conflict and Violence

Mr Alexandre Raffoul swisspeace/University of Basel

What’s vital about vital interests? Veto rights and minority protections in consociational settings

Ms Allison McCulloch, Brandon University

The Role of Minority (or Community) Rights Legislation in Addressing Exclusion in the Western Balkans

Ms Elizabeth Craig University of Sussex

Is there Political change afoot in Northern Ireland: A critical evaluation of Power-Sharing of Sinn fein and the Democratic Unionist Party

Mr Callum McNeill-Keay Liverpool Hope University

15.30 COFFEE BREAK

15.45-16.45 Keynote Ms Joanne McEvoy, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

‘Taking Stock of Power-Sharing Research: Where Next?’

[18.00 CONFERENCE DINNER: Le Quartier Latin, 212 Boulevard Général Jacques, 1050 Ixelles]

Friday, 16 November (Auditorium)

09.00 COFFEE

09.15-10.45 Panel: Political Parties and Political Representation Chair Drew Mikhael

Ideology and Party System Change in Consociational Systems: The Case of Non-nationalist Parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Mr Soeren Keil Canterbury Christ Church University

How can power be shared with micro-minorities?

Ms Aleksandra Zdeb University of Graz & Queens University Belfast

Trying to fit in BiH and Macedonia. Representing non-ethnic communities in ethnic politics

Ms Arianna Piacentini CAS SEE University of Rijeka

Europeanizing the party politics of minority - kin-state relations

Mr Patrick Utz University of Edinburgh

11.00 Closing Remarks (Allison McCulloch)

[12.00-14.00 EAI Business meeting (organisers only)]