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This ground-breaking study shows how deliberative peace referendums (DPRs) can help find common ground in peace processes - contexts where democratic deliberation is urgently needed and yet hard to succeed. The authors convincingly argue that DPRs can avoid problems of 'ordinary' peace referendums and thus help achieve more sustainable peace settlements. * Maija Setala, Professor in Political Science, University of Turku * This impressive book boldly takes deliberative democracy into territory in which it has usually not dared to go. The authors make a strong and nuanced case for the deliberative peace referendum in conflict societies. If properly designed, it has the potential to help produce constitutional settlements that are enduring even in conflict societies racked with controversy about group sovereignty, succession and indigenous settler rights. In the process of presenting their case, the authors make significant contributions to the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, referendums, and peace processes generally. * Dennis F Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor Emeritus Harvard University and author of Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States *

This impressive book boldly takes deliberative democracy into territory in which it has usually not dared to go. The authors make a strong and nuanced case for the deliberative peace referendum in conflict societies. If properly designed, it has the potential to help produce constitutional settlements that are enduring even in conflict societies racked with controversy about group sovereignty, succession and indigenous settler rights. In the process of presenting their case, the authors make significant contributions to the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, referendums, and peace processes generally. * Dennis F Thompson, Alfred North Whitehead Professor Emeritus Harvard University and author of Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States * This ground-breaking study shows how deliberative peace referendums (DPRs) can help find common ground in peace processes - contexts where democratic deliberation is urgently needed and yet hard to succeed. The authors convincingly argue that DPRs can avoid problems of 'ordinary' peace referendums and thus help achieve more sustainable peace settlements. * Maija Setala, Professor in Political Science, University of Turku *

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Ron Levy, Associate Professor of Law, Australian National University College of Law, Ian O'Flynn, Senior Lecturer in Political Theory, Newcastle University, Hoi L. Kong, UBC Professor in Constitutional Law, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

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