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Federalism, Decentralisation and
Conflict Management in Multicultural
Societies
Public Conference fromThomas Fleiner
Budapest – January 2008
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How should they be governed?
Who should govern whom?
Holding or bringing multiculturalSocieties together we have to ask:
And even more explosiv:Who should decide who should govern?
Main Questions:
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Multicul-turality
Nation-state
Challenges of the Na-tion-State
Glocali-sation
Fragmen-tation
Diversi-tiy con-
flicts
The Challenge of the Nation State
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Do federalism and decentralizationhelp to bring or to hold
multicultural societies together?
Why is multiculturalism a problem?
The issues:
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Is a fragmented civil societyas nation builder of a multicultural
state conceivable and realistic?
Based on what concepts doesthe international community
intervene and/or manageconflicts of multicutlural societies?
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EgocentricHobbes
Bearers ofunalienable
rightsLocke
RationalCitoyensRousseau
Exploitersor
exploitedMarx
Cost-benefit drivenHomo oeconomicus
State of Modernity: all human individuals are equal as being
What is the main problem?
Capable of rea-son and judge-
ment Kant
What
is
good
for
all?
Universa
l values,
but they d
o not take
cultu
re as l
egtimacy
fundam
ent
for politc
al identit
y serio
us
Nation-State facingMulticulturality
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Nation - State
IgnoringCulture
DenyingCulture
Integrating in-to one cultu-re of identity
Conflict withethnic
minorities
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have economic roots
are generated byfundamentalism
are promoted bywarlords
have historical rootsare stired up by
neighbours
Controversy about the roots and the potentials of the different conflicts:
Indu
ced b
y e
thnicity
Illegitimate state
State v. minority terror
Multiculturality:Diversity Conflicts
Sympto
ms o
r cause
s?
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Consumers profit fromglobal market
„citoyens“ claim universalityof human rights
human beings seek local security and local identity
Reality ModernState Glocalisation
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What is
good
for
us and for our
com
mu
nit
ies?To
get legi-timacy from
diversi-ties by
Promoting:shared-ruleself-rule?
Reconciling:conflict ma-nagement
power-sharing?
Tolerating:minority
protection;affirmative
action?
Equalising:collective
rights?
Challenges of the Nation-Statewith regard to fragmen-
tation by diversity
Legitim
acy of m
ulticultu
ral n
ations t
a-
kes c
ulture
s serio
usely
but is f
ocuss
ing
on particu
lar rath
er than unive
rsal v
alues
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I. To bring or to hold together by
state-makingor by
state-reconstructing
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Bring togetherthrough
constitution making
bydemocraticprocedure:Who is the„Pouvoir
Constituant“?
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Bring together by Constitution
makingNegotiation
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Hold togetherthrough
reconstructingthe federalbalance:
Creating anew canton
by secession
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Berne
Jura
CH
Creating a newCanton
Juraout of
secessionand
self-de-termina-
tion
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French
German
Along language
lines?
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Catholic
Protestant
Or along
religiouslines?
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Nation –building:
Hold togetherthrough
reconstructingthe federalbalance:
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II. Hold or bring together
bydecentralization
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The challenge ofelitism
To bring togetherby improving local
democracy
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Transparancyand
accountability
To bring together byimproving
localdemocracy
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Responsiveness
To hold together by
improving local
governance
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HumanRights
To hold toge-ther by
improving local
governance
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III. To hold or bringfragmented
civil society(ies)together
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With Rights
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To bring civil so-cieties together
with rights
Right ofSelf-determination
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To bringtogether
with rights
Collective rights
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Civil societiesfacing
diversities
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How cancivil
societi(es)hold together
when theyface
pluralismof
languages
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How cancivil
societ(ies)hold to-gether
when theyface
religiousdiversities
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IV. To bring or holdtogether
by the internationalcommunity
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To bring together
Role andlegitimacy
of international
action
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To hold togethter
Forms of internationalinvolvement:Governance
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Constitution makingState-makingState
Unity
Bri
ng a
nd h
old
mu
ltic
ulu
ralit
yto
geth
er
Negotiation
Soft secession
Nation-Building
Elitism
Transparency
Responsiveness
Human Rights
Self-Determination
Collective Rights
Language
Religion
Intervention
Int. governance
Recon-structing
State StructureDecentralisation
Local de-mocracy
Local Go-vernance
Civil So-ciety
Rights
Diversi-ties
Interna-tional C.
Bring together
Hold together
Bring together
Hold together
Bring together
Hold together
Bring together
Hold together
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