Saleh Hissein Hassan (LL.M, MCL Maurer School of Law) is an S.J.D. Candidate at Indiana University Maurer School of Law. Saleh Hassan will address consociational power sharing model for managing cultural cleavage in Chad. See the abstract below.

Divided along geographic, religious, and cultural lines, Chad is inhabited by over two hundred ethno-linguistic groups that deepened the divisions among the citizens of the country. The world is learning to manage such tensions, various theories of constitutional design and, more importantly, the experience of democratic divided societies demonstrate that such societies can sustain democracy under proper constitutional and institutional structures.. Various theories of constitutional design or constitutional engineering prescribe different territorial arrangements. Consociation theorists (Liphart, etc.), advice building territorial arrangements along ethnic, or more broadly, along cultural lines, this could  guarantee representation in the power structure and participation in making political decisions achieved through; grand coalition (elite accommodation), proportional representation, segmental autonomy in cultural matters, and minority veto/ mutual veto. The research would involve the careful study of the merits of the consociational theory, review of the experience of decentralized multiethnic states and examine whether designing of democratic institutions based on consociationalism would prevent conflicts, bring stability and sustain democracy in Chad.