The Institute of Federalism, together with our colleagues from Swisspeace and researchers from Canada, Lebanon and Iraq have met in Beirut on the 12^th-13^th of December 2022 to attend the kick-off meeting of the project “Power-Sharing for Peace? Between Adoptability and Durability in Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq”.

Power-sharing has become a primary tool used by international actors to pacify violent conflicts and ensure democracy in deeply divided societies. Habitually intense negotiation and compromise is involved before agreements can be reached between the conflicting parties and relevant stakeholders.

In collaboration with our consortium partners, the IFF will work with a large number of civil society organisations, mediation practitioners and key political actors to examine power-sharing arrangements, their benefits and shortcomings in the three Middle Eastern countries. In particular, Dr Soeren Keil and Professor Eva Maria Belser will contribute to the research on adaptability and adoptability and, together with swisspeace, to the Syrian case study.

The “Power-sharing for Peace” project aims at extending and refining power-sharing theory, and providing concrete policy recommendations for national, international and non-state actors.

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