DEVOLUTION, GOVERNANCE AND THE PEACE PROCESS

The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...

Gender equality, good governance, and peace

The Governance of Port Devolution: a Tale of Two Countries

Over a little more than the past decade, governments internationally have devolved responsibility for ports from the public sector to the private sector. The outcome of port devolution depends on the governance systems put in place. This paper adds to the growing body of literature on what constitutes good governance in the transport sector. First, some background on devolution as an alternativ...

Peace Negotiations and Peace Talks: the Peace Process in the Public Sphere

The article develops an understanding of public deliberations during a peace process, focusing on the interaction between the elite level negotiations and the “public peace process.” It does so by examining the dialogical mechanisms that are set to work in the public sphere once the elite consider the possibility of identifying the former enemies as allies or friends. These dialogical mechanism...

Decentralized Governance for Democracy, Peace, Development and Effective Service Delivery