Kyriacou, A. P. (2006). Functional, Overlapping, Competing, Jurisdictions and Ethnic Conflict Management. Kyklos, 59(1), 63-83.
By allowing ethnic groups to organize areas important to them regardless of their geographic distribution, functional, overlapping and competing jurisdictions (FOCJ) have an important role to play in the management of ethnic conflict in plural societies. The functional devolution of powers which is intrinsic to FOCJ may be preferable to territorial devolution when minority groups are spatially dispersed or, when they are geographically concentrated but ...