16.05.07
Integration as a Conflict Regulation Mechanism
An Analysis of the OSCE’s Integration Program in Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia
Oslo, NUPI | 72 sider
Rapporten analyserer bruken av integrasjon av minoritetsgrupper som konfliktreguleringsmekanisme. Bjøro har analysert et OSSE-program som har som mål å løse lokale konflikter gjennom å integrere den armenske minoritetsgruppen i Republikken Georgia.
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This thesis explores the merits of minority integration as a conflict regulation mechanism. Within the conflict literature, there are diverging views as to the merits of integration. While some hold that integration is a fruitful way of resolving conflict, others maintain that integration is most likely to have a conflict-generating effect.
To illuminate this discussion, an OSCE program that aims to resolve conflict through minority integration in the Republic of Georgia is examined. The OSCE program being implemented in the Georgian province of Samtskhe-Javakheti, targets the large ethnic Armenian community living there. The Armenian community is weakly integrated in Georgian society and the relationship between the minority and the government in Tbilisi is tense.
Fieldwork was carried out in Samtskhe-Javakheti in April 2005. Findings indicate that the OSCE program has had a modest, but positive impact on minority integration. Furthermore, integration does not appear to have increased tensions in the province. However, integration does not appear to have ameliorated conflict either, as tension in the region remains high.
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