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Conflicts in the Balkans, Rwanda, Chechnya, Iraq, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India, and Darfur, as well as in Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, are among the best-known and deadliest examples from the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
2 lip 2009 · This article focuses on ethnic conflict and ethnic identity. It begins by differentiating these from nationalism, national identity, and civil wars. It presents a survey of the explanations provided in four traditions of enquiry, and also provides an analysis of the inadequacies or merits of arguments within each tradition.
The statement identifies five aspects of engagement: (1) anthropology as a source of social criticism, (2) community engagement, (3) policy voices, (4) classroom engagement, and (5) reengaging anthropology defined as continuous self‐criticism from within the discipline.
Marc Howard Ross examines battles over diverse cultural expressions, including Islamic headscarves in France, parades in Northern Ireland, holy sites in Jerusalem and Confederate flags in the American South to propose a psychocultural framework for understanding ethnic conflict, as well as barriers to, and opportunities for, its mitigation.
The following are examples of levels in the category for which ethnographers have re-ported conflict: (a) local communities, each operating autonomously, in conflicts against one another; (b) allied clusters of local com-munities; (c) nonlocalized social groups, such as lineages, clans, and associations, which are mobilized for purposes of conflict
The argument for treating the United Nations Security Council as an important actor on issues of ethnicity and ethnic conflict is based on two assumptions. The first is that as the designated primary actor on conflict issues at the international level the Council has a key role to play.
10 lip 2022 · We argue that more historical states located within the borders of modern states increase the chance of civil conflict because they (1) created networks useful for insurgency, (2) were symbols of past sovereignty, (3) generated modern ethnic groups that activated dynamics of ethnic inclusion and exclusion, and (4) resisted western colonialism.
