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Conflict Transformation through State Reform

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Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict

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State reform and conflict are closely interrelated. While state reform can on the one hand be seen as a prerequisite for conflict transformation and sustainable peace, it can also easily become a source of conflict. The potential of state reform itself depends on the prope establishment of structures, values and attitudes that can enable the different groups within the society to handle their conflicts peacefully.

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Bächler, G. (2004). Conflict Transformation through State Reform. In: Austin, A., Fischer, M., Ropers, N. (eds) Transforming Ethnopolitical Conflict. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-05642-3_14

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