Constitutional Law and Diversity
The Impact on Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Identities
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:5th Feb '27
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 5th February, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This book investigates the use of constitutions in managing ethnic, religious and linguistic diversity. Many countries have diversities based on ethnicity, culture or religion. In some instances, these diversities cause conflicts. Typically, these conflicts arise when the underlying diversities are made politically salient, as when ethnic, religious and linguistic identities are used to achieve a political end. Recognising this, constitutions are often used as a means of managing conflict. The book analyses and assesses the specific techniques used by constitution makers to achieve this management of diversity and the conflicts that can be associated with it. Using this analytical framework, the book assesses the constitutions of three countries that have adopted significantly different approaches to managing diversity: Ethiopia, Nigeria and India.
The work will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the fields of Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Politics and Federalism.
"Constitutional Approaches to Diversity offers a bold and original framework for understanding how constitutions shape identity and manage conflict. Through incisive analysis of India, Nigeria and Ethiopia, Terefe Gebreyesus makes a compelling case that integrative constitutional design provides the most effective path for managing deep societal diversity and division."
Nicholas Aroney, Professor of Constitutional Law, Director, Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law, The University of Queensland
"Many countries around the world must grapple with how best to manage ethno-religious and linguistic diversity. Constitutions play an increasingly important role in this management exercise. Yet they adopt quite different approaches: some are “accommodationist” while others are “integrationist” in approach. Is one model more likely than another to lead to peace, stability and good government?
Or is their relative success wholly contingent and context-dependent? These are deeply important questions that this important new book by Terefe Gebreyesus explores. Drawing on insights from India, Nigeria and Ethiopia, the book makes the case for integration as a preferred constitutional approach – albeit one that must be understood and assessed with careful attention to local context."
Rosalind Dixon, Anthony Mason Professor and Scientia Professor of Law, UNSW
ISBN: 9781041265566
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226 pages