State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous Peoples 2010 -
Lebanon |Publisher||Minority Rights Group International|
|Publication Date||1 July 2010| |Cite as||Minority Rights Group
International, State of the World's Minorities and Indigenous
Peoples 2010 - Lebanon, 1 July 2010, available at:
http://www.refworld.org/docid/4c3331110.html [accessed 18 May
2013]| The 15-year Lebanese civil war ended with the signing of
the 1989 Ta'if Agreement. Twenty years on, Lebanon continues to
be divided along sectarian lines. Post-independence, Lebanon's
political system was institutionalized in the National Pact of
1943. The National Pact had introduced a confessional formula,
which provided for the representation of Christians and Muslims
in a six to five ratio throughout government. Furthermore, the
offices of president, prime minister and speaker of the
parliament were allocated to the Maronite, Sunni and Shia sects
respectively. Following a bloody internal conflict, the Ta'if
Agreement replaced the six to five ratio