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The changing nature of conflict and the increase in intrastate conflict during the 1990's, followed by its slow decline since the turn of the century, have led to changing priorities in the field of conflict resolution. No longer is the international community solely concerned with resolving existing conflicts; it also is managing emerging conflicts to ensure that they do not flare into violent conflict. This book outlines some of the strategies parliaments and parliamentarians can adopt to reduce the incidence of conflict and effectively manage conflict when it does emerge. It is hoped that by

Legislative bodies --- Resource allocation --- Conflict management --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Developing countries --- Economic policy. --- Economic conditions. --- Bicameralism --- Legislatures --- Parliaments --- Unicameral legislatures --- Allocation of resources --- Resources allocation --- Constitutional law --- Estates (Social orders) --- Representative government and representation --- Authority --- Common good --- General will --- Power (Social sciences) --- Economics --- Management --- Operations research --- Organization --- Planning --- Feasibility studies

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The study is the result of an international collaborative project supported and funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This multi-year venture has involved a research team of some forty chapter authors and commentators. The research has been accompanied by three major workshops on project methodology, initial chapter reviews and final discussions. A point was made of including both scholars and practitioners involved in power-sharing settlements in the review process, in the hope that more would be learned about the actual implementation of the settlements under investigation. The project team was united in its wish to explore whether long-standing secessionist conflicts have been addressed effectively through the significant number of self-determination settlements that were generated in response to the wave of internal conflicts of the 1990s. It was also committed to testing whether consociationalist and integrative techniques of conflict settlement really are as mutually exclusive as is sometimes supposed, or whether they can in fact be mutually reinforcing. Finally, the project derives its impetus from the necessity to critically rethink the doctrine of self-determination. One may question whether its traditional, restrictive interpretation will be adequate in confronting the wide variety of future challenges to the territorial integrity of states.

Autonomy --- Conflict management --- Minorities --- Self-determination, National --- Autodeterminación nacional --- Autonomia --- Minorias --- Solución de conflictos --- National self-determination --- Nationalism --- Nation-state --- Nationalities, Principle of --- Sovereignty --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- Independence --- Self-government --- International law --- Political science --- Political activity --- Actividad política --- Autonomy - Case studies --- Conflict management - Case studies --- Self-determination, National - Case studies --- Minorities - Political activity - Case studies