Facing Ethnic Conflicts

Author : Wimmer,Goldstone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742579538

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Facing Ethnic Conflicts by Wimmer,Goldstone Pdf

Ethnic conflict is the major form of mass political violence in the world today, and it has been since World War II. Dramatic acts of terrorism and calculated responses to them may distract the attention of policymakers and the public, but ethnic and nationalist conflict continues to pose the greatest challenge to peace and security across the globe. Causes of such conflict and ideas about how to address it are hotly debated in the literature that has emerged over the past fifteen years. This volume offers a unique overview of research and policy approaches to ethnic conflicts. It is the first book to bring together experienced policymakers and key scholars from all disciplines. They debate how to best understand the rise and escalation of ethnic conflict, assess different strategies for peacemaking, mediation, and reconciliation, and evaluate the prospects for conflict management through institutional design. In contrast with a more enthusiastic assessment of the willingness and capacity to successfully intervene in ethnic conflict, this volume documents the new realism that has emerged over the past decade. It recognizes the complex and protracted nature of such conflicts and demands a multifaceted, case-by-case approach sustained by long-term political engagement. Published in co-operation with the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.

Author : David Wippman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501730061

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International Law and Ethnic Conflict by David Wippman Pdf

The breakup of the former Yugoslavia demonstrates the limitations of international law in the face of ethnic conflict. The contributors to this book examine the various roles international law and international institutions play in dealing with ethnic conflict. International Law and Ethnic Conflict first covers general philosophical, historical, and cultural issues arising from attempts to apply international law to ethnic conflict. The authors assess the legitimacy of demands based on group identity, the legal rights of ethnic groups, the validity of various entitlement claims, and the meaning of statehood. They then consider the institutional and policy responses of international organizations and states in their attempts to deal with ethnic conflict and analyze the extent to which various forms of intervention prove successful.

Author : Ray Taras,Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Cases
ISBN : 0321085949

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Understanding Ethnic Conflict by Ray Taras,Rajat Ganguly Pdf

The completely updated new edition of this groundbreaking text provides students with a clear analytical framework for understanding ethnic conflicts and how they affect international relations. This text surveys theories of nationalism and ethnic conflict and tests their applicability to a number of contemporary cases: the more confident nationalism of Putin's Russia, the intensification of ethnic war in Sri Lanka, and the struggle to change the face of nationalism in the former Yugoslavia, to name just a few. After a look at the sources of nationalist conflict in a country, each case study then asks how the international system reacted. Taken as a whole, the book examines how successful the international system has been in managing the many ethnic conflicts that erupted after the Cold War. The conclusion of the new edition focuses on the dilemma facing U.S. foreign policy makers as the Bush administration begins: whether and where to intervene to combat ultra-nationalism and promote liberal internationalism.

Author : Raymond Taras,Rajat Ganguly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317342830

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Understanding Ethnic Conflict by Raymond Taras,Rajat Ganguly Pdf

Understanding Ethnic Conflict provides all the key concepts needed to understand conflict among ethnic groups. Including approaches from both comparative politics and international relations, this text offers a model of ethnic conflict's internationalization by showing how domestic and international actors influence a country's ethnic and sectarian divisions. Illustrating this model in five original case studies, the unique combination of theory and application in Understanding Ethnic Conflict facilitates more critical analysis of contemporary ethnic conflicts and the world's response to them.

Author : John McGarry,Brendan O'Leary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136146602

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The Politics of Ethnic Conflict Regulation by John McGarry,Brendan O'Leary Pdf

This major and timely collection addresses one of the world's most visible and tragic problems: ethnic conflict and its regulation. It begins with a guide to the primary methods used to eliminate or manag eethnic conflict, and is followed by a global sample of case studies written by leading authorities in their fields.

Author : wa Kyendo
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789966702050

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Fundamental Theories of Ethnic Conflict by wa Kyendo Pdf

This book develops and expands on theories that aim at explaining the root causes of ethnic and racial conflicts. The aim is to shift focus from research, policies and strategies based on tackling the effects of ethnic and racial conflicts, which have so far been ineffective as evidenced by the increase in ethnic conflicts, to more fundamental ideas, models and strategies. Contents extend across many disciplines including evolution, biology, religion, communication, mythology and even introspective perspectives. Drawn from around the world, contributors to the book are respected and experienced award winning authors, scholars and thinkers with deep understanding of their special fields of contribution. The book was inspired by the conditions in Kenya, where ethnic violence flared up with terrifying consequences following a disputed election in 2008. Although the conflict was resolved by the intervention of the international community, Kenyans like many other Africans - continue to live in fear of ethnic conflicts breaking out with more disastrous consequences. The book will be useful to policy makers, NGOs and others involved in promoting peace. It will also be useful in guiding research and as a text book in universities and colleges.

Author : Stefan Wolff
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805881

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Ethnic Conflict by Stefan Wolff Pdf

Why is it that Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland have been in perpetual conflict for thirty years when they can live and prosper together elsewhere? Why was there a bloody civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina when Croats, Serbs, and Muslims had lived peacefully side-by-side fordecades? Why did nobody see and act upon the early warning signs of genocide in Rwanda that eventually killed close to a million people in a matter of weeks? What is it that makes Kashmir potentially worth a nuclear war between India and Pakistan?In recent years hardly a day has gone by when ethnic conflict in some part of the world has not made headline news. The violence involved in these conflicts continues to destabilize entire regions, hamper social and economic development, and cause unimaginable human suffering. And the extensivemedia coverage of these conflicts all too often raises important questions that it signally fails to answer.This book aims to fill this gap. Drawing on the author's long experience of studying such conflicts around the world and his involvment in attempts to resolve them, it provides an illuminating and accessible introduction to the origins, dynamics, and management of ethnic conflict. In doing so, ithelps explain the fundamental question underlying all these conflicts: why do nationalism and ethnicity still have such terrible power to turn neighbour against neighbour?

Author : Andreas Wimmer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742535851

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Facing Ethnic Conflicts by Andreas Wimmer Pdf

This volume offers a major tour de force in bringing together for the first time key scholars, journalists, and policymakers from a variety of discipline perspectives to fully explore the wide range of issues involved in ethnic conflict and to offer concrete resolutions. The authors focus on prevention, intervention, and institutional regulation, but through it all, they bring a realistic perspective to bear on what is happening and what can be done. The wrenching circumstances of ethnic conflicts in Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya, or South Africa must never be forgotten or borne again, and the authors in this monumental work remind us-graphically, but groundedly-why. Visit our website for sample chapters! Published in co-operation with the Center for Development Research, University of Bonn.

Author : Kusuma Snitwongse,Willard Scott Thompson
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789812303400

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Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia by Kusuma Snitwongse,Willard Scott Thompson Pdf

Potentially destabilizing ethnic conflicts continue to challenge nation-states worldwide: The countries of Southeast Asia are no exception. Globalization, population movements and historical and political fault-lines in a tremendously ethnically diverse region, coupled with continuing uneven access to economic development, have seen the resurgence of old conflicts or the flaring up of new ones. Along with violence and the loss of life and livelihood there are also longer-term cross-border impacts to consider in the form of refugees or displaced persons, illegal migrant labour, as well as drug and arms smuggling. Written by country experts, this volume examines ethnic configurations as well as conflict avoidance and resolution in five Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Ethnic Conflicts in Southeast Asia is a resource for scholars, policy-makers, NGO personnel, analysts and others who wish to deepen their understanding of the region, or develop strategies to prevent, modulate and resolve such conflicts.

Author : Karl Cordell,Stefan Wolff
Publisher : Polity
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745639307

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Ethnic Conflict by Karl Cordell,Stefan Wolff Pdf

"Investigating the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, the authors argue that the most effective responses are those that take into account factors at the local, state, regional and global level and that avoid seeking simplistic explanations and solutions to what is a truly complex phenomenon." "Ethnic conflicts are man-made, not natural disasters, and as such they can be understood, prevented and settled. However, it takes skilful, committed and principled leaders to achieve durable settlements that are supported by their followers, and it takes the long-term commitment of the international community to enable and sustain such settlements." --Book Jacket.

Author : David Carment,Patrick James
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822971795

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Wars in the Midst of Peace by David Carment,Patrick James Pdf

This volume of essays assembles a diverse array of approaches to the problems of ethnic conflict, with researchers and scholars using pure theory, comparative case studies, and aggregate data analysis to approach the complex questions facing today's leaders.

Author : Florian Bieber,Carsten Wieland
Publisher : Longo Angelo
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061209527

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Facing the Past, Facing the Future by Florian Bieber,Carsten Wieland Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136927560

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Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict by Anonim Pdf

A definitive global survey of the interaction of race, ethnicity, nationalism and politics, this handbook blends theoretically grounded, rigorous analysis with empirical illustrations, to provide a state-of-the art overview of the contemporary debates on one of the most pervasive international security challenges today. The contributors to this volume offer a 360-degree perspective on ethnic conflict: from the theoretical foundations of nationalism and ethnicity, to the causes and consequences of ethnic conflict, and to the various strategies adopted in response to it. Without privileging any specific explanation of why ethnic conflict happens at a specific place and time or why attempts at preventing or settling it might fail or succeed, the Routledge Handbook of Ethnic Conflict enables readers to gain better insights into such defining moments in post-Cold War international history as the disintegrations of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia and their respective consequences and the genocide in Rwanda, as well as the relative success of conflict settlement efforts in Northern Ireland, Macedonia, and Aceh. By contributing to understanding the varied and multiple causes of ethnic conflicts and to learning from the successes and failures of its prevention and settlement, the Handbook makes a powerful case that ethnic conflicts are neither unavoidable nor unresolvable, but rather that they require careful analysis and thoughtful and measured responses.

Author : Kenneth Christie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000143980

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Ethnic Conflict, Tribal Politics by Kenneth Christie Pdf

There is an urgent need for a book which combines the approaches of political science/sociology and history and particularly comparative politics with ethnic studies. There are currently many rapid and significant changes taking place in the world political map in terms of ethnic conflict. How do we explain these changes? How do we analyse them? How can we compare them? How do we make sense of the different ethnic conflicts that have taken place since the end of the Cold War, in what some observers have dubbed 'the New World Order'? Few books on the market combine the diverse approaches of political science, sociology and history at any level of analysis. This work will remedy at least some of the deficiencies in the existing literature and be truly interdisciplinary in nature.

Author : M. Ross,J. Rothman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999-06-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230513082

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Theory and Practice in Ethnic Conflict Management by M. Ross,J. Rothman Pdf

Throughout the world there are efforts both large and small to address ethnic conflicts-identity based disputes between groups who are unable to live side-by-side in the same state. This book brings together a collection of case studies on interventions in ethnic conflicts throughout the world in which the nature of the state is a core concern (Turkey, Russia, Macedonia, Guatemala, Israel, Cyprus, Northern Ireland, South Africa, US) and asks how the projects themselves understand success and failure in ethnic conflict resolution. It emphasises the complexity and importance of better understanding ways in which small-scale interventions can sometimes have a large impact on large-scale ethnic conflict, and how the goals of the intervenors shift as the participants redefine the identities and interest at stake.