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[email protected] Observatório de Relações Exteriores Portugal de Sousa Carvalho, Alexandre POWER-SHARING: CONCEPTS, DEBATES AND GAPS JANUS.NET, e-journal of International Relations, vol. 7, núm. 1, mayo-octubre, 2016, pp. 19-32 Observatório de Relações Exteriores Lisboa, Portugal Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=413546002003 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative OBSERVARE Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa e-ISSN: 1647-7251 Vol. 7, Nº. 1 (May-October 2016), pp. 19-32 POWER-SHARING: CONCEPTS, DEBATES AND GAPS Alexandre de Sousa Carvalho
[email protected] Doctoral student in Political Science at ISCTE-IUL (Portugal), Master's in African Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Bradford, England and graduate of International Relations from the University of Coimbra. Associate researcher at the Centre of International Studies, ISCTE-IUL and consultant at OBSERVARE-UAL Abstract Academic literature tends to reflect the two main objectives of power-sharing: promoting the construction of sustainable peace and serving to structure the foundations for growth and development of democracy in divided societies. reflecting this, two dimensions and discourses of analysis and evaluation stand out: a classical dimension centred on power- sharing as theory and a normative proposal for democracy in divided societies, and another focused mainly on power-sharing as a meachanism of conflict management.