Some states may borrow an odd device here or there, perhaps after
a crisis is brought to compromise by an international mediator whose
only interest is to restore the peace. Some of these states may stumble
upon institutions that aid in conciliation; most will not. Many attempts
to reach power-sharing agreements fail altogether, and an authoritarian
regime of ethnic domination may set in, with or without a lapse
(or a relapse) into civil war.