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@proceedings{1681498,
author = {Čermák, Petr},
booktitle = {UACES 47th Annual Conference},
title = {Ethno-territoriality and Prospects for Peace after Ethnic Conflict: Towards Locally Focussed Research on the Western Balkans},
year = {2017}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 1681498
AU - Čermák, Petr
PY - 2017
TI - Ethno-territoriality and Prospects for Peace after Ethnic Conflict: Towards Locally Focussed Research on the Western Balkans
N2 - The primary aim of the research is to uncover possible causal links between different levels and patterns of ethnic heterogeneity and inter-ethnic relations on the local level using a large-N sample of post-conflict areas of the Post-Yugoslav region. Competing theoretical arguments on relation between ethnic heterogeneity and prospects for peace after an ethnic conflict will be tested within a sample of 119 post-conflict ethnically mixed municipalities throughout the region. While the causal logic of separationist arguments of conflict resolution assumes negative effect of ethnic heterogeneity on the quality of inter- ethnic relations, competing integrationist assumptions conversely suggest that heterogeneity facilitates peace. The research will test the suggested contradictory links between ethnic heterogeneity and post-conflict peace by using mixed methods approach and combining quantitative large-N test with medium-N and small-N qualitative methods. The relation between ethnic heterogeneity as the explanatory variable and inter-ethnic political cooperation as the dependent variable will be first investigated through bivariate quantitative methods looking for correlations between the two phenomena. Subsequently, theoretically relevant subset of cases will be included into qualitatively designed comparative study based on QCA method to uncover possible necessity and sufficiency of particular levels of ethnic heterogeneity for post-conflict cooperation. Finally, more in-depth qualitative study based on process tracing method will be conducted within small-N sample of crucial cases to uncover effective causal mechanisms. Through triangulation of different types of data and methods of their analysis, potential links from post-conflict ethnic demography to prospects for peace on the local level will be comprehensively investigated and causal mechanism acting behind them uncovered and explained.
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ČERMÁK, Petr. Ethno-territoriality and Prospects for Peace after Ethnic Conflict: Towards Locally Focussed Research on the Western Balkans. In \textit{UACES 47th Annual Conference}. 2017.
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