Territorial Self-Government as a Conflict Management Tool

Dawn Walsh is Irish Research Council-Marie Curie Elevate Research Fellow at Dublin City University, Ireland. Her research interests include the creation of innovative institutions to manage conflict, the implementation of peace agreements, gender and peace processes, and the role on international actors in facilitating peace agreements.

• Introduction: Guaranteeing territorial self-government as a conflictmanagement tool.- Northern Ireland: Autonomy as a conflict managementtool in a stable state, ethnonational guarantors, and low-level internationalassistance.- Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ethnic entities in a multi-ethnic state?Instability and disputed interpretations of the state.- Macedonia: Enhancedlocal government and ethnic conflict.- Moldova: Weak autonomy, centralgovernment neglect, and mixed international impact.- Iraq: Iraqi Kurdistan,unresolved issues, and changing international priorities.- Conclusion.

“Territorial Self-Government succeeds in presenting a cogent and compelling case for further research on the efficacy of carefully chosen and implemented guarantee mechanisms in stabilizing post-conflict autonomy structures.” (Deanna Soloninka, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 25 (3), 2019)