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War and Ethnicity

Global Connections and Local Violence
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The great majority of today's wars take place within rather than between states and are often explained and justified by participants as the result of deep and ineradicable differences between 'them' and 'us'. The contributors to this book, whose disciplinary backgrounds include history, political science, international relations and anthropology, explore the growing importance of such 'ethnic' differences in a world that is also becoming more unified, politically, economically and culturally. They discuss the causes of internal war, the techniques used by nationalist politicians and intellectuals to turn ethnicity into a powerful political resource, the response of the UN and of non-governmental agencies to such 'complex' political emergencies as those in former Yugoslavia and Somalia and the constitutional strategies that can be used to acknowledge and accommodate ethnic diversity. Taken together, the papers demonstrate that the relationship between ethnicity and war is not a simple matter of cause and effect. Ethnic differences are not given in nature, ethnicity does not arise suddenly andspontaneously but only in specific historical circumstances and it is unlikely to become a lethal force in human affairs except through the deliberate calculation of political elites. DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford. CONTRIBUTORS: TOM GALLAGHER, STEFAN TROEBST, THOMAS ZITELMANN, KLAUS JURGEN GANTZEL, JAKOB ROSEL, HARRY GOULBOURNE, IOAN LEWIS, MARK DUFFIELD.

Author Biography:

DAVID TURTON is Director of the Refugee Studies Programme, University of Oxford.
Release date Australia
January 24th, 2003
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
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  • Edited by David Turton
Pages
280
Dimensions
172x244x15
ISBN-13
9780851158693
Product ID
3668245

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