Combining peace and conflict studies with public administration research, Divided Cities critically investigates the roles of public administration and civil servants in resolving issues that are potentially conflictual in divided societies. Zooming in on nine cities with very different legacies and democratic development - Copenhagen, Malmö, Toronto, Belfast, Mostar, Cape Town, Mitrovica, Nicosia, and Jerusalem - the contributors analyze the tools, strategies, and understandings of conflict resolution that are available in different stages between conflict and stability. Exploring how contested issues have been addressed, by whom, and to what effect, this collection of essays examines how public institutions and citizens have interacted to agree on the best course of action for progress in their respective cities.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• About the Authors
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction – Governing contested issues in divided cities
  • Merging conflict resolution and public administration
• I CONSOLIDATED DEMOCRACIES
  • 1. The ‘good enough’ multicultural city?
    • Managing diversity in Toronto
  • 2. Multiple meetings in Malmö
    • The challenges of integrative leaders in local integration
  • 3. ‘Wonderful’ Copenhagen
    • Coping with segregation and ghettoisation
• II CONSOLIDATING DEMOCRACIES
  • 4. ‘Two schools under one roof’
    • Unification in the divided city of Mostar
  • 5. Retelling the city
    • Competing spaces of social engagement in Cape Town
  • 6. Belfast – Troubles after the Troubles?
• III UNCONSOLIDATED DEMOCRACIES
  • 7. Resistance in divided Jerusalem
    • Contesting urban planning policy
  • 8. Nicosia Master Plan
    • Planning across the divide
  • 9. Contested democrac(ies)
    • Disentangling understandings of democratic governance in Mitrovica
• Conclusion – Contestation in divided cities
• References