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Ethnic conflict is one of the major threats to international peace and security. 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.
ETHNIC CONFLICT IN THE WORLD TODAY: AN INTRODUCTION. Most countries are populated by several distinct ethnic groups; many as half of all countries have experienced or can expect. conflict among such groups in the second half of this century.
The European partition of Africa following the Berlin West Africa Conference of November 1884 to February 1885, (Crowe, 1942) marked the emergence of ethnic nationalism. In an effort to maintain peace in the colonies, the colonies adopted the medieval European principles of government (Maning, 1988).
10 lip 2022 · While incorporating these important insights, we advance the field by highlighting mechanisms through which historical states can influence conflict independent of ethnicity and by drawing on a global dataset of independent states rather than ethnic groups.
The main cases where anthropology has focused pri- marily on social conflict and collective violence include early on the so-called primitive warfare, in the 1570s mainly, ethnocentrism and human universals, and rnore recently the effects of violence on individuals and groups, Furthermore, anthropology in conflict studies grows
Some dissident ethnic groups have declared secessionist aims that threaten to break up extant polities, and these aims in turn have invited invasion of one country by another (for example, the Somali invasion of Ethiopia), or armed intervention, as evidenced by India's recent march into Sri Lanka (1987).
9 lut 2006 · This book aims to fill this gap. Drawing on the author’s long experience of studying such conflicts around the world and his involvement in attempts to resolve them, it provides an illuminating and accessible introduction to the origins, dynamics, and management of ethnic conflict.
