The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. This is reflected...
Publications
The Dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC)
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Territorial self-governance and proportional representation: reducing the risk of territory-centred intrastate violence
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016.
Audit Tool Survey
Audit tools have significantly grown in popularity over the past decade as part of a global drive to measure the performance of various institutions against a set of indicators and to score performance in a range of indices. In this report for the Global Centre for...
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Reflections on the Politics of Stalemate
Co-authored with Karl Cordell, this Introduction to a Special Issue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict offers a broad contextualisation to the individual contributions in this special issue. The special issue was co-edited by Karl Cordell, Brendan O'Leary, and...
Linkage and leverage effects on Moldova’s Transnistria problem
Co-authored with John Beyer and published in East European Politics, this article asks what the impact is of geopolitical competition on conflict resolution and democratisation in the context of extensive and multi-directional linkages and leverage? Our analysis...
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Reflections on the Politics of Stalemate
Co-edited with Karl Cordell and Brendan O’Leary, this special issue on the intractability of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was published by Ethnopolitics in 2016. Brendan O’Leary’s lead piece begins from the premise that the status quo is neither morally...
National and International Instruments of Minority Protection in Europe
National and international instruments of minority protection in Europe form a multi-layered framework that establishes minority protection not as a choice but as both a legal obligation and a pragmatic necessity. In this report, commissioned by the Institute for...
Early Warning through a Pluralism Lens: Assessing Scenario Planning
In this paper for the Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP) I assess whether scenario planning can serve as an approach through which the GCP can establish itself as a credible and effective player in the early warning field by applying its pluralism lens as the focus of...