I think the idea that all these conflicts are down to irreconcilable ethnic/religious divisions, and that the solution is "power-sharing" by empowering various community leaders, actively makes matters worse. There is something very pernicious about it and I hesitate [because I don't mean to sound anti-American in this instance] to attribute it to the American way to look at the rest of the world as less able to function democratically, as well as exporting the American model of identity politics.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."