1st Edition
Partition and Peace in Civil Wars Dividing Lands and Peoples to End Ethnic Conflict
By Carter R. Johnson
Copyright 2022
154 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
154 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic and sectarian civil wars. It argues that partition is unlikely to end ongoing ethnosectarian civil wars, but it can increase the likelihood of preventing civil war recurrence, as long as the partition separates civilians and militaries. The book presents in-depth case studies of Georgia–Abkhazia and Moldova–Transnistria,... Read more
1. Introduction: Born Again Partition - The Remaking of a Tool
2. How Comprehensive Partition Facilitates Peace
3. Can Partition End an Ongoing War? Cycles of peace and conflict in post-Soviet Georgia-Abkhazia
4. Partition and the Prevention of Civil War Recurrence: Comparing Partitions Around the World between 1945 and 2004
5. Post-Partition Violence and Peace: Stay-Behind Minorities and Minority Returns in Georgia and Moldova
6. Partition’s Present and Future: Comprehensive Partition’s Utility for Serbia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Iraq
Biography
Carter R. Johnson is an associate faculty member at HSE University, Russia.
