Devolution Research

Directions: You will create a one-pager country profile that highlights key information to help
you understand examples of devolution.
1. Using the links provided on the next page, read and collect information about your
country and the region within it.

2. Create a one pager that highlights the following information:

a. Definition of devolution
b. Where:
● Name of country and region

● Description and map of location

c. What and Why:
● What are the factors leading to devolution in this state?
● Ex: physical geography, ethnic separatism, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, economic
and social problems, irredentism, etc
● What are the main issues or reasons related to this region?
● What do they want? Why do they want it?
● Are these issues social, cultural, economic, demographic, political,
environmental?
d. When:
● What are key dates/years that explain the relationship between this region and the rest of
the state?
e. Results:
● What is the region’s current status?

● What changes have resulted from this desire for change?

f. Other influences:
● Did technology play a role in this event? If so, how?

● Have supranational organizations intervened? If so, how? If not, why?

● Provide names of the organizations and describe their interventions

Devolution Research Sources (feel free to find your own!)

1. Spain (Catalonia) 2. Canada (Nunavut)

● https://www.youtube.com/watch? ● https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/
v=__mZkioPp3E en/article/nunavut
● http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/europe/catalan-
referendum-explained/index.html
● http://www.debatingeurope.eu/focus/
independence-catalonia/#.Wjfvx99Ku1s
● https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-
41584864
3. Eritrea & Ethiopia
● https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=FKRaM_2bcCE
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Eritrean_War_of_Independence
● https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/09/world/
africa/ethiopia-eritrea-war.html
5. Belgium (Flanders, Wallonia)
● https://theculturetrip.com/europe/belgium/
articles/an-introduction-to-the-flemish-walloon-
divide/
● https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/06/if-catalonia-
goes-independent-these-places-could-be-
next.html
● http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7640198.stm
7. Nigeria
● https://www.infoplease.com/well-have-
nunavut
Canada (Quebec)
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Quebec_sovereignty_movement
4. Sudan & South Sudan
● http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-
14019208
● https://www.britannica.com/place/South-
Sudan
● https://africanarguments.org/2015/10/07/
splitting-south-sudan-into-28-states-right-
move-wrong-time/
● https://www.cmi.no/publications/6974-the-
paradox-of-federalism-and-
decentralisation-in-south-sudan
6. Soviet Union
● https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/
pcw/108229.htm
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-
Soviet_states
● https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/
jun/09/-sp-profiles-post-soviet-states
8. East Timor
 ● https://www.gfmag.com/topics/blogs/nigerian- ● https://www.theguardian.com/world/
election-privatization-devolution video/2019/aug/30/east-timor-
independence-a-short-history-of-a-long-
● https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
and-brutal-struggle-video
Federalism_in_Nigeria
● https://www.theguardian.com/world/
● https://www.vanguardngr.com/2019/01/
2019/aug/30/east-timor-indonesias-
devolution-of-power-restructuring-way-out-of-
invasion-and-the-long-road-to-
nigerias-quagmire/
independence
● https://www.asiapacific.ca/canada-asia-
agenda/15-years-after-independence-
whatever-happened-east-timor

What is a One-Pager?
Essentially, a one-pager is all of the important information you need to know about your topic
limited to one page. In the past students have used this as a reading strategy, but instead you
will be using it as a way to display important information regarding your topic. A good way to
get started is to organize the information into the topics listed above. Below is a list of other
requirements to help get you started:

● Use unlined white paper.

● Title the One-Pager appropriately to reflect the content.
● Fill the entire page.
● Use the proper grammatical format.
● Use three visual images, either drawn or cut out from magazines, to create a central focus to your
page. If you use a computer image, personalize it to make it your own.