The potential for subnational governance to serve as a catalyst of peace has been widely recognized. This is reflected in the frequent inclusion of subnational governance arrangements in political settlements negotiated in war-to-peace transitions. In this book, my...
This new dataset captures the institutional provisions in political agreements concluded between 1989 and 2016. Introducing the new dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (PAIC) and presenting its first application, my co-authors Giuditta Fontana,...
After decades of scholarship, there is still little agreement about the usefulness of territorial self-governance in managing territory-centred conflicts. In this freely accessible article in Territory, Politics, Governance, argue that the effectiveness of territorial...
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...
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...
Co-authored with Karly Kupferberg, this chapter was published in Constitutions and Conflict Management in Africa. It presents the findings of a research project conducted as part of the Constitutional Design and Conflict Management (CDCM) project, which was part of...
