Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism: The Origins and Dynamics of Civil Wars

by Soeters; Joseph

• ISBN13: 9780415365871
• ISBN10: 0415365872
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-26
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book aims to understand the origin and dynamics of so called intra-national conflicts such as those that have been affecting Europe (Northern Ireland, the Bask Country region in Spain, Corsica in France, the former Yugoslavia and Albania), and a number of countries in the developing world (Rwanda, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Sudan and Uganda, Haiti, India, Pakistan and others) and how these conflicts have been invested by terrorist organizations at both national and international levels. To analyze their emergence and development, the book offers an introduction into nine basic mechanisms analyzed and defined by social sciences disciplines such as sociology, anthropology and political sciences and that are relevant to the understanding of these conflicts. The nine themes are divided into two groups: long term macro issues and short term micro issues and each chapter analyses one of these mechanism or theme. Ultimately this book defines a number of considerations aiming at the development of policies toprevent and stop such conflicts.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
PART I Macro and long-term factors	15	(60)
Grid Characteristics and Group Boundaries	17	(13)
Waning Government, Democratic Deficit and Strategic Constellation	30	(11)
Violence and (De)civilisation	41	(13)
Violence and Culture	54	(12)
Rationalisation of Evil	66	(9)
PART II Micro and short-term factors	75	(55)
Group Binding, Stereotyping and Ideologising	77	(12)
Social Mobilisation and Leadership	89	(10)
Rising Expectations, Relative Deprivation and Reduction of Power Distance	99	(11)
The Dynamics of Conflict	110	(9)
Conclusions and Implications	119	(11)
Bibliography	130	(11)
Index	141