Courts and Consociations: Human Rights Versus Power-Sharing

by Christopher McCrudden and Brendan O'Leary

Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights norms, particularly equality and non-discrimination.

Courts and Consociations examines the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199676844
• ISBN13: 9780199676842
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"