Modaliteti institucionalnog rješavanja sukoba u višeetničkim zajednicama
Modalities of institutional solving of conflicts in multiethnic communities

Summary/Abstract: Classical liberal democracy which guarantees and enables equal participation of citizens in political processes and in that way, with the help of making decisions by majority, represents politics as expression of their will, is barely faced with solving democratic standards which require respecting rights of ethnic communities in multiethnic societies. Liberal democracy enables creation of homogenous society with the help of assimilation and acculturation, while level of ethnic is left to private sphere. Theoretical-empirical mechanisms and principles, which enabled overcoming of social conflicts, resulted from segmentation based on ethnic divisiveness of the society, on which classic democracy could not give the answer, were found in the second half of the last century. Such alternative forms of democracy were successful with their institutional mechanisms in post-conflict periods and they helped in preserving democraticvalues in divided societies. Despite numerous objections, consociational democracy model appeared to be the most adequate form in practice as far as preserving stability of divided societies is concerned. Specific model of ethnic democracy appeared as the adequate model of preserving democratic state in a divided society which is dominantly controlled by only one

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