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Sociology, 2000
The ethnic dimension to social relations can be distinguished from dimensions based on neighbourliness, national origin, race and religion etc., but ethnic conflicts are not a special class of conflicts. The significance of a shared ethnic origin varies with the location and scale of social relations.
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The ethnic dimension to social relations can be distinguished from dimensions based on neighbourliness, national origin, race and religion etc., but ethnic conflicts are not a special class of conflicts. The significance of a shared ethnic origin varies with the location and scale of social relations.
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Ethnic conflict: the role of ethnic representation
WIDER Working Paper, 2023We investigate the impact of the political representation of minority groups on the incidence of ethnic conflict in India. We code data on Hindu-Muslim violence and Muslim political representation in India and leverage quasi-random variation in legislator religion generated by the results of close elections.
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The Journal of Modern African Studies, 1987
In the new states of Africa and Asia, no problem has more fiercely challenged political order and state cohesion than ethnic conflict. In this work of breathtaking scope and prodigious scholarship, Donald Horowitz has gone the furthest of any writer in a generation to remove the many illusions and fill the huge voids in our understanding of this ...
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In the new states of Africa and Asia, no problem has more fiercely challenged political order and state cohesion than ethnic conflict. In this work of breathtaking scope and prodigious scholarship, Donald Horowitz has gone the furthest of any writer in a generation to remove the many illusions and fill the huge voids in our understanding of this ...
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2005
In much of the developing world — most notably Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East — ethnic strife, more so than class conflict or other types of social cleavage, has been the major source of political friction and violence during the past half-century.
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In much of the developing world — most notably Africa, South Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East — ethnic strife, more so than class conflict or other types of social cleavage, has been the major source of political friction and violence during the past half-century.
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2009
Abstract 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.
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Abstract 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.
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'Ethnic Conflict'? Armed Conflict from an Ethnic Perspective
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013The role that inequality (Stewart, 2008), grievances, social cohesion and the presence of state institutions in relation to ethnicity (Wimmer, 1997; Kronenberg, 2012) play in the emergence of armed conflict is still an open research area. To do so, using ethnicity as a unit of analysis (Brubaker, 2006) might prove useful to bypass the challenges posed ...
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2006
Abstract 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 for decades? Why did nobody see and act upon
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Abstract 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 for decades? Why did nobody see and act upon
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Ethnic conflict and conflict resolution in Ukraine
Perspectives on European Politics and Society, 2001Abstract The history of independent Ukraine is characterised by the relatively peaceful handling of ethnic and linguistic conflict potential, despite the fact that approximately one quarter of the population belongs to ethnic minorities and less than half of the population has the state language as its first language.
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