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In many cases, conflict parties are only willing to accept an agenda of peace if they are guaranteed a share of state power. As a consequence, the majority of recent peace agreements and post-agreement constitutions provide for some form of power sharing. In many cases of peace negotiations and constitution-making, the question is not so much whether there will be power sharing but how and what kind to introduce.
Very often when power-sharing is discussed, the debate focuses on different options of power-sharing mechanisms, their benefits and risks. This presentation will set a different emphasis. Very pragmatically, it will look at power-sharing from the process perspective of peace-building, focusing at the different stages from armed conflict to working power-sharing institutions: (1) the stage in which different actors agree that there is a need for power sharing, (2) the negotiations and decision-making on powersharing mechanisms, sometimes in the framework of peace negotiations, sometimes as part of a constitution-making process, (3) the transition phase in which provisions of power sharing have to be implemented, leading finally (4) to the stage in which
power-sharing mechanisms are in place and hopefully working. All four stages have their very own specific challenges that merit to be explored.