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Seeking to End Ethnic Wars |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Rene Wadlow |
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The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 969 Words, 6,674 Characters |
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ETHNICITY AND INTRA-STATE CONFLICTS: TYPES, CAUSES AND PEACE STRATEGIES
By Hakan Wiberg and Christian Scherrer, eds.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 1999
344 pp., cloth $74.95
As Christian Scherrer notes in his important essay, "Towards a Comprehensive Analysis of Ethnicity and Mass Violence,"
The task of conflict research remains a Herculean one: to detect the roots, genesis and dynamics of intra-state conficts. The aim is to give a survey of conflict potentials, to identify belligerent actors and their goals, to analyse characteristics of rebel forces, to research the course of a particular conflict... Furthermore, the task for peace research is ...
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...se who would create such a "dialogic community" and those who would use ethnic identity and ethnic myths to mobilize for narrower ends. This book, written primarily for scholars who are familiar with some of the literature on intra-state wars and conflict resolution techniques, can be a useful overview for those building such a dialogic community.
© 2000 International Journal on World Peace
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