Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict Primal Violence or the Politics of Conviction?

by Saha, Santosh C.; Bangura, Abdul Karim; Edozie, Rita Kiki; Ghose, Gaurav; Hall, Michael R.; Hintjens, Helen M.; Husain, Mir Zohair; James, Patrick; Kiwuwa, David Emmanuels; Lang, Graeme Stuart; Magnarella, Paul J.; Manian, Sabita; Makoba, Johnson W.; Ndur

• ISBN13: 9780739110850
• ISBN10: 0739110853
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-05-25
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

The existing traditions of inquiry into ethnic conflict can be classified into four categories: essentialism, instrumentalism, constructivism, and institutionalism. All four traditions have a distinguished lineage, but none can really account for the worldwide spread of ethnic violence. We need to move from the local to the macro or global. This book, using methodology from sociology, history, and politics, will present the complexities of ethnic conflict in terms of lingusitics, religion, territory, and tribes in various regions.

Table of Contents

Introduction : toward contexts more intricate and subtle	p. 1
Third-party intervention in ethno-religious conflict : role theory and the major powers in South Asia	p. 17
Ethnic violence and the loss of state legitimacy : Burma and Indonesia in a context of post-colonial developmentalism	p. 47
Not ethnicity, but race : unity and conflict in Rwanda since the genocide	p. 77
The Hutu-Tutsi conflict in Rwanda	p. 107
Politico-psychological dimensions of the ethnic and political conflicts in India : conflicting paradigms at work	p. 133
Multifaceted ethnic conflicts and conflict resolution in Nigeria	p. 173
Georgetown shuffle : ethnic politics of Afro-Guyanese, Amerindians, and Indo-Guyanese in postcolonial Guyana	p. 197
Sudan's identity wars and democratic route to peace	p. 225
Ethnic conflict in Mexico : the Zapatistas	p. 251
Kurdish ethnonationalism : a concise overview	p. 269
The roots of contemporary ethnic conflict and violence in Burundi	p. 295
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