Divided Cities: Governing Diversity - Hardcover

"This collection of essays provides a fascinating empirical and theoretical contribution to peacebuilding by bringing together researchers in conflict studies, public policy and urban governance. It creates a transdisciplinary framework to offer a new understanding of multi-scalar governance, policy processes and professional ideologies as necessary components in transformative politics. The book is a unique resource for scholars and practitioners in conflict studies, International Relations, urban management and public administration." -- Dr Brendan Murtagh, Queens University, Belfast. Author of Belfast: Segregation,Violence and the City "By rescaling conflict resolution issues that are often conceptualized at the national-state level and bringing them to the micro-level of everyday interactions in divided cities, this volume helps us gain understanding of what active agents in the urban realm can do to address difference and tension. Bridging peace studies and public administration and using nine urban 'diagnostic sites', Divided Cities turns us away from abstract diplomatic formulas of peacemaking and towards an urban and pragmatic approach toward understanding and addressing divisions." -- Professor Scott A Bollens, University of California, Irvine. Author of City and Soul in Divided Societies

Very rarely has peace and conflict studies been combined with public administration research. This book brings together theories from conflict resolution, public administration, and urban studies to present new theoretical and empirical insights from nine in-depth case studies. The authors employ the city as a prism to shed light on the complex, multidimensional processes of conflict, segregation, democratisation, and governance. They use the city as a diagnostic site for exploring the role of public administration and civil servants in resolving contested issues in divided societies. The researchers analyse nine multi-faceted cases: Toronto, Copenhagen, Malmo, Mostar, Cape Town, Belfast, Jerusalem, Nicosia and Mitrovica -- all cities at different stages of conflict and stability and with disparate legacies. The contributors map the tools, strategies, and understandings of conflict resolution to be found in each city, and in so doing break new empirical and theoretical ground.