Databases on Power-sharing

  • The PA-X Peace Agreement Database - The PA-X Peace Agreement Database is a database and repository of peace agreements from 1990 to date hosted by the University of Edinburgh. Agreements in the database are coded for content such as power-sharing arrangements. PA-X provides a comprehensive dataset of peace agreements from 1990 to the end of 2018, capable of underpinning both quantitative and qualitative research. PA-X also publishes reports on various themes, including a report on military power-sharing and a report on political power-sharing and inclusion.

  • The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law - The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL) is a comprehensive online resource containing analytical comparative articles offering a global overview of constitutional law. Developed with constitutional lawyers, academics, and students in mind, the encyclopedia provides seamless navigation between encyclopedia articles, linking to commentaries and instruments from the Oxford Constitutions of the World and US Constitutional Law products, and through reference pages on the Oxford Law Citator.

  • Constitute - Constitute is a website that contains a richly indexed set of texts for nearly every national constitution in the world. It is run by the Comparative Constitutions Project.

  • UN iLibrary - UN iLibrary is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. It includes material related to the right to post-conflict power-sharing arrangements.

NGOs Working on Power-sharing

  • Constitutional Transitions - Constitutional Transitions generates and mobilizes knowledge in support of constitution building by assembling and leading international networks of experts to produce evidence-based policy options for decision-makers and agenda-setting research, in partnership with a global network of multilateral organizations, think tanks, and NGOs. Constitutional Transitions has worked with over 50 experts from more than 25 countries. 

  • The Forum of Federations - The Forum is an international organization that develops and shares comparative expertise on the practice of federal and decentralized governance through a global network. The mission of the Forum is to strengthen inclusive and responsive governance, including pluralism and gender equality, in federal, decentralized, and transitioning countries.

  • The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) - IDEA is an intergovernmental organization that supports sustainable democracy worldwide. It develops, shares and facilitates the use of comparative knowledge in our key areas of competence: electoral processes, constitutional construction, political participation and representation, and democracy and development. IDEA works upon invitation to provide in-country support based on its global comparative knowledge. IDEA frequently publishes reports and analysis on post-conflict constitution-drafting processes, including commentary on power-sharing arrangements.

Blogs on Power-sharing

  • The Peace Research Institute Oslo - The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) conducts research on the conditions for peaceful relations between states, groups and people. PRIO publishes reports, articles on topics relating to peace, security, and governance, including power-sharing arrangements.

  • ICON-nect - I·CONnect is the blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. It is a forum for thoughtful analysis of major issues in the field of comparative constitutional law. It produces updates on important new constitutional cases, amendments, constitution-making efforts and other new developments. It also features discussions of scholarship in the field, including book reviews, debates and responses to articles that appear in I-CON.

  • International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Blog - The International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) Blog aims to provide a forum for constitutionalists around the world to present their research, share their views, and discuss crucial constitutional law topics, as well as overlooked issues and more technical discussions of constitutional law. It aims not only to respond to constitutional law developments, but also to frame important debates,  provide much-needed context, make useful links between different developments, and look ahead to what constitutional developments may take place in the future. 

  • The Power Sharing and Peace Mediation Project - The Power Sharing and Peace Mediation Project investigates the role of mediation in addressing the dilemma arising from power-sharing. On the one hand, power-sharing facilitates agreements in the short term, however, on the other hand, it sometimes complicates peace consolidation and reconciliation in the long term. Mediation plays a crucial role to overcome this dilemma. Therefore, the project seeks to identify strategies that have been used by parties, mediators and supporters to successfully overcome the power-sharing dilemma so as to foster conflict transformation. This project is funded by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) under the ‘What Makes for Effective Peace Processes’ grant program.