Partition and Peace in Civil Wars

This book examines whether partition is an effective means to resolve ethnic civil wars.

Carter R. Johnson is an associate faculty member at HSE University, Russia.

1. Introduction: Born Again Partition - The Remaking of a Tool 2. How Comprehensive Partition Facilitates Peace 3. Can Partition End an Ongoing War? Cycles of peace and conflict in post-Soviet Georgia-Abkhazia 4. Partition and the Prevention of Civil War Recurrence: Comparing Partitions Around the World between 1945 and 2004 5. Post-Partition Violence and Peace: Stay-Behind Minorities and Minority Returns in Georgia and Moldova 6. Partition's Present and Future: Comprehensive Partition's Utility for Serbia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Ukraine, and Iraq