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Post-conflict Elections and the International Community: Principles and Experiences

Boško Picula ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia


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Abstract

Post conflict elections presents relatively new concept and practice in international relations. This article considers first elections in states after the conclusion of a large internal or international conflict. Post conflict elections bave constantly taken place since 1989, when OUN organized the elections in Namibia. They were followed by a range of post conflict elections like those in Cambodia in 1993, South Africa in 1994, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996, Liberia in 1997 and East Timor in 2001, but with different outcomes. The majority of these states succeeded in avoiding open armed conflict, in most of the cases with the help of international community, but it is important to stress that elections per se do not express the beginning of the irreversible process of the reestablishment and maintenance of peace. The complexity and importance of post conflict elections qualifies the international community as their leading initiator and organizer, especially organizations like the OUN and OSCE.

Keywords

elections; conflicts; post-conflict elections; international community; OUN; OESS

Hrčak ID:

289599

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289599

Publication date:

15.1.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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