Home >> Europe Culture Macedonian Model of Ethnic Conflict Regulation: Through Intercultural Dialog to Multicultural Integration
Drs.. S. Slaveski, O. Bakreski, Z. Nikoloski - 10/4/2011
Abstract
With some 5000 to 8000 ethnocultural groups in the world, and only around 200 states, simple arithmetic shows that the most states are inevitably going to be shared by more than one ethnic group, and often by dozens. Hence the conflicts among different ethnic groups are expected.
The real issue is how these conflicts are managed. Most political theorist working on this issues focus on three methods for managing differences. Those are: territorial autonomy (e.g. federalism), non-territorial autonomy (e.g. power-sharing and conscociationalism); and multicultural integrati... Lawfare in Austria
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